I’m starting differentiation with my Year 12 group, and before we get started with the process of differentiating algebraically, I wanted to make sure they have a solid understanding of what the gradient function actually is, and how its graph links to the graph of the original function. Original functions are in red, and derivatives […]
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A fill in the blank activity for hidden quadratics. All the quadratics are monic and factorisable, and the index equations have integer solutions (so no logarithms needed). Hidden Quadratics Fill in the Blank (Editable Word document)
Another revision request from my Year 13 group was domain and range of functions. This seems to be a topic that students always find tricky. I created this matching activity (only one page is shown in the picture). It worked really well – the most difficult bit for them was distinguishing between the various reciprocal
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Another thing my Year 13 group found tricky was using a binomial expansion to approximate surds. I wrote this fill in the blanks activity, starting off fairly straightforward and ending with them needing to work backwards. Binomial Expansion
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When revising numerical methods, my Year 13 group found the final part of trapezium rule questions, where you need to use the previous part, difficult. I wrote this worksheet for them to do. Trapezium Rule
