Higher: Students will learn simplifying expressions, substituting into and rearranging formulae, expanding and factorising expressions, solving equations, sequences and inequalities and simple proof.
Foundation: Students will learn the above apart from sequences and inequalities which will be taught in later terms.
Expression
identity
equation
formula
substitute
term
‘like’ terms
index
power
negative and fractional indices
collect
substitute
expand
bracket
factor
factorise
quadratic
linear
simplify
approximate
arithmetic
geometric
function
sequence
nth term
derive
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Formula are used in science and pupils need to be able to rearrange dependent on what variable they have been asked to find. E.g. For the speed formula speed = distance/time, students may need to rearrange to find the distance.
