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GCSE Maths - Higher

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Contents

Introduction
Maths Specification.pdf
Higher GCSE course plan.xlsx

Lesson 1 Multiplying And Dividing Without A Calculator

Although this may seem a pretty simple start, it is important to have a variety of methods available to you in order to be able to multiply and divide more complex calculations without using a calculator.

I have attached photos of some exercises you can use to practise your methods.

1.Multiply and Divide.mp4
1.multiplication and division.pdf
Questions 1
Questions 2

Lesson 2 BIDMAS

This lesson highlights the importance of using BIDMAS in which to identify the order in which you complete calculations.

Please see page 2 exercise 1 and 2 in your textbook. Please note the textbook calls this BODMAS - it is the same thing!

2.BIDMAS.mp4
2.Bidmas.pdf
2.BIDMAS.pptx

Lesson 3 Types of Number, Factors, Multiples and Primes Including Product Of Prime Trees

This lesson helps you to recognise the different types of number and introduces the prime factor trees going through some exam style questions.

Remember you need to be aware of first 15 square numbers, first 5 cube numbers and first 10 prime numbers.

Please see textbook pages 7-11.

3.Types of number.mp4
3.Types of number.pptx

Lesson 4 Highest Common Factor and Lowest Common Multiple

This session will draw upon your knowledge of factors and multiple and will enable you to see a use for writing numbers as a product of prime factors.

Some exam questions from www.mathsgenie.co.uk are attached with solutions.

To further practise, you can use pages 12, 13 and 15 in the textbook.

4.HCF and LCM.mp4
4.HCF and LCM.pdf
4-HCF-and-LCM (1).pdf
4-HCF-and-LCMans.pdf

Lesson 5 Indices

The first video is an introduction to indices and incorporates the 3 easiest indices rules you are expected to know - this alone is grade 4 indices.

The second video incorporates the more difficult indices rules, negative powers and fractional powers. .

To practice multiplication and division rules, pg 92 exercise 1 and pg 93 exercise 2.

For the negative and fractional powers, pages 94-95 exercise 3 and 4.

For some exam questions, resource from mathsgenie.co.uk.

5. Indices 2.mp4
5. Indices.mp4
5. Powers.pptx
5. Powers.pdf
63_indices.pdf

Lesson 6 Surds

This is a video combining all the surds you need to know for higher GCSE - what they are, how you manipulate them and how you can work with them. There is a lot covered in this video and you might find it easier to pause, practice and then do the next bit. Pages from the textbook to support you are as follows.

Simplifying Surds - page 99 exercise 1

Adding and Subtracting surds - page 101 Exercise 3

Expanding brackets with surds page 102 Exercise 4

Rationalising - page 103 Exercise 5 and 6.

Surds.mov
Surds1.pdf

Lesson 7 Standard Form

Introduction to standard form - page 96 and 97

7. An introduction to standard form.mp4
7. Standard form intro.pptx
7. Standard form intro.pdf

Lesson 8 - Fractions, Decimals And Percentages

Please refer to pages 62-64 in the textbook.

8. FDP and recurring decimals.mp4
8. Fractions, Decimals, Percentages (1).pptx
8. Fractions, Decimals, Percentages.pdf

Lesson 9 - Fractions Of Amounts

9. Mixed numbers to improper fractions (2).mp4
9. Mixed numbers to improper fractions.pdf
9.Fractions of a number (2).mp4
9.Fractions-of-amounts.pdf
9.Fractions-of-amounts.pptx

Lesson 10: Four Rules Of Fractions

10. Four rules of fractions (2).mp4
10. Four rules of fractions (2).pdf
10. Four rules of fractions (2).ppt

Lesson 11: Percentages Of A Number

11. Percentages of a number.mp4
11. Percentages of a number.pptx
11. Percentages of a number.pdf

Lesson 12: Percentage Change

12. Percentage change.mp4
12. Percentage change ppt.pdf
12. Percentage change.pdf
12. Percentage increase and decrease.mp4
12. Percentage Increase and Decrease.pdf

Lesson 13 - Repeated Percentage Change

13. repeated percentage change.mp4
13. Repeated-Percentage-Change.pdf
13.Compound interest.pdf

Lesson 14 Bounds

This lesson looks at higher and lower bounds of numbers and how to do calculations using them. You need to be able to round numbers in order to be able to understand how bounds work. More practice can be found on page 21 in the higher textbook. Some exam questions found on www.mathsgenie.co.uk are also attached. 

14.Bounds.mp4
14. Bounds.pptx
14. Bounds.pdf
14. Upper and lower bounds.pdf

Lesson 15: Simplifying

This lesson shows you how to simplify algebraic terms by collecting like terms and simplifying fractions. These are key skills to develop and you will struggle with the remaining algebra content if you do not master these. Practice questions can be found on page 75 and 76 of the higher textbook. 

15.Simplifying.mp4
15. Simplifying.pptx

Lesson 16: Expanding Brackets

This lesson draws upon your simplifying skills and looks at what it means to have expressions written in brackets. This lesson shows you how to expand single, double and triple brackets ranging from grade 3 to grade 8. These skills will be used further as we go along. Extra practice can be found on pages 77-79 of the textbook. 

16. Expanding Brackets.pdf
16 Expanding brackets.mp4

Lesson 17 - Factorising

This lesson allows you to use your knowledge of expanding brackets and reverse the process to put expressions back into brackets using common factors. It covers both single and double brackets taking you up to grade 6. Extra practice can be found on pages 80-83. Lesson 18 will  show you how to factorise harder quadratic equations hitting the grade 7/8 factorising. 

17. Factorising .pptx
17. Factorising.mp4

Lesson 18 - Factorising Harder Quadratics

This lesson will expand on your knowledge of factorising by including quadratics with coefficients of x^2. This a grade 6-8 topic and requires practice and knowledge of factors of numbers.  Practice can be found on page 84 and some sample exam questions on page 90. 

18. Factorising harder quadratics.mp4
18. Factorising harder quadratics.pptx
18. Factorising harder quadratics.pdf

Lesson 19 - Substitution

This lesson allows you to understand how to substitute a number in the place of a letter to find the value of an expression. This is used a lot in scientific formulae. You can find practice on page 106-107. 

19. Substitution.mp4
19. Substitution.pptx
19. Substitution.pdf

Lesson 20 - Solving Equations

This lesson consists of 2 videos on solving equations. The first is an introduction to solving equations and talks you through the basics to gain a firm base. The second, takes the process one step further by solving equations with unknowns on both sides of the equals sign. Practice can be found on pages 113-116 in the textbook. 

20. Solving equations introduction.mp4
20. Solving equations x on both sides.mp4
20. Solving Equations.pptx
20. Solving Equations 2.ppt

Lesson 21 Straight Lines and Quadratics

21. Introduction to straight line graphs and plotting quadratics - this lesson plays with plotting coordinates and creating straight line graphs by calculating coordinates. This website https://www.transum.org/Maths/Activity/Coordinates/Picture.asp is great for practicing plotting coordinates - pictures start easy but get harder! The second video goes onto finding coordinates of quadratic graphs and plotting these. Practice can be found on page 177. 

21. Introduction to straight line graphs.mp4
21. Plotting Quadratics.mp4
21.Plotting Quadratic Graphs.pdf

Lesson 22 - Parallel and Perpendicular Lines

Lesson 22 - Straight line graphs. This lesson helps you to identify the gradient and y-intercept of a straight line graph given the equation. It also demonstrates how to determine if 2 straight lines are parallel, perpendicular or neither. Some practice questions from mathsgenie.co.uk are attached and you can find further practice on page 180-186 of the textbook. 

22. Straight line graphs.mp4
22. Straight Line Graphs.ppt
22. parallel-and-perpendicular-lines.pdf

Lesson 23 - Solving Quadratics by Factorising

This lesson shows you how to apply your already applied knowledge of factorising a quadratic to pushing it one step further to find a solution. Practice can be found on page 135.

23. Solving Quadratics by factorising.mp4
23. Solve quadratics by factorising.pdf

Lesson 24 - Solving Quadratics with Formula

This gives you another way of solving a quadratic equation. You will need your calculator handy as this comes up on the calculator paper. Practice can be found on page 140 of the textbook. 

24. Solving Quadratics with formula.mp4
24. Solving Quadratic Equations using formula.pptx

Lesson 25 - Rearranging Formulae

This lesson shows you how to use your knowledge of solving linear equations to rearrange formulae to find unknowns. Practice can be found on page 109 of the textbook. 

25. Rearranging formulae.mp4
25. Rearranging-Formulae.pdf

Lesson 26 - Completing the Square

here are two parts to this lesson, the general method of completing the square and how to solve quadratics by completing the square. This builds on your knowledge of quadratics and will hopefully help to cement the parts you already know. More practice can be found on page 137 of the textbook and there is also a worksheet attached. 

26. Completing the square.mp4
26. Completing the square.pptx
26. Solving quadratics using completing the square.mp4
26. Solving quadratics by completing the square.pptx
26. completing-the-square worksheet.pdf

Lesson 27 - Function and Inverses

These two videos show you about function notation and the use of inverse functions and composite (more than one!) function. Practice can be found on pages 228-235 of the textbook with answers in the back. 

27. Introduction to functions.mp4
27. Functions and Inverses.mp4
27. Composite-Functions.pdf
27. Functions and Inverses.pdf

Lesson 28 - Introduction To Sequencing

Introduction to sequences. This lesson starts off with what a sequence is and how to look for the patterns and continue the sequences to find the next few terms. Practice can be found on page 161 of the textbook. 

28. Introduction to sequences.mp4
28. Introduction to sequences.pptx

Lesson 29 - Recognising Key Sequences

Recognise key sequences - this lesson demonstrates the different types of sequence you need to be familiar with that are not straightforward linear sequences. It looks at square numbers, triangular numbers and the Fibonacci sequence. A picture of the fibonacci spiral is included - apologies for my brain moment! 

29. Key sequences.mp4
29. Fibonacci spiral.docx

Lesson 30 - Finding the nth Term of a Sequence

Finding the nth term of a sequence. This lesson looks at how to find the nth term rule of a given sequence and makes it clear what each part means. Extra practice can be found on page 167 of the textbook. 

30. Finding nth term.mp4
30. nth term of a sequence.pptx

Lesson 31 - Generating sequences.

This lesson builds upon the previous lesson by using the nth term rule to generate a sequence of numbers and decide if a certain number is in a sequence. Practice can be found on page 170.

31. Generating sequence.mp4
31. Generating Sequences.pptx

Lesson 32 - Plotting a sequence and linking it to straight line graphs.

This lesson develops your knowledge of sequences and links them to y=mx+c previously covered. Practice can be found on page 170. If you print the powerpoint, there are some predrawn axis you can use. 

32. Plotting a sequence.mp4
32. Plotting a sequence and linking to straight line graphs.pdf

Lesson 33 - Fractional and Quadratic sequences.

This lesson shows you how to find the nth term of a fractional sequence and a quadratic sequence. Practice questions can be found covering all sequences on page 176. There are also some exam style questions from corbettmaths.co.uk attached with solutions. 

33. Fractional sequences.mp4
33. Fractional Sequences.pdf
33. Sequences exam questions.pdf
33. Sequences exam answers.pdf

Lesson 34 - Simplifying a ratio and writing a ratio as a fraction.

This lesson introduces you to the idea of a ratio and how you can apply it to fractions. Practice can be found on page 42-46.

34. Simplifying ratio.mp4
34. Simplifying a ratio.pdf

Lesson 35 - Dividing into a ratio.

This lesson shows you how to split a number into a given ratio. Practice can be found on page 50. 

35. Dividing into a ratio.mp4
35. Dividing into a ratio.pdf

Lesson 36 - Using ratio to solve proportion questions - the unitary method.

This lesson shows you how to use ratio to break down a problem to find the cost of one item. Practice can be found on p53. 


Lesson 36 - Using ratio to solve proportion questions
36. Proportion unitary method.pdf

Lesson 37 - Direct Proportion.

In this lesson you will learn to create equations linking two quantities that are directly proportional to each other. You will use these equations to find unknown quantities. More practice can be found on page 127 of the textbook. 


Direct proportion
37. Direct-Proportion.pdf

Lesson 38 - Inverse proportion

In this lesson you will link two quantities that are inversely proportional to each other. Practice can be found on page 130 of the textbook with exam questions on page 134.

Inverse Proportion
38. Inverse Proportion.pdf

Lesson 39 - Set Theory

This lesson introduces you to the notation of set theory and the symbols. Please see page 236 for practice. 

39. Set Theory.pdf
Lesson 39

Lesson 40 - Venn Diagrams

This lesson applies your knowledge of sets to Venn diagrams and helps you put data into them.  Extra practice can be found on pages 238-244 of the textbook. 

Lesson 40
40. Venn-Diagrams.pdf

Lesson 41 Outcomes and Two Way Tables

This lesson shows you how to list possible outcomes to an event systematically. It also shows you how to understand, draw and interpret a two way table. Practice can be found on page 451 of the textbook


Lesson 41
41. Outcomes and Two Way Tables.pdf

Lesson 42 Theoretical and Experimental Probability

This lesson shows you the difference between theoretical and experimental probability. Practice can be found on page 454-460 of the textbook. 

Lesson 42
42. Theoretic and Experimental Probability.ppt

Lesson 43 - The and/or rules

This lesson explains what we mean by the and/or rules of probability and highlights when to add and when to multiply probabilities. Practice can be found on pages 463-468.

Lesson 43
43. AND-OR-rules.pptx
43. AND-OR-rules.pdf

Lesson 44 - Tree diagrams

This lesson highlights all you need to know about tree diagrams, how to construct them and how to read off them including some exam style questions. Practice can be found on page 470.

Lesson 44
44. Tree diagrams.pdf

Lesson 45 - Conditional Probability

This lesson follows on from the tree diagrams and shows you how to find probability if an event is known. Practice can be found on page 472 of the textbook. 

45 Conditional Probability
45. Conditional-Probability.pdf

Lesson 46 - Types of Data and Sampling

This session explains the different data types you can collect in a questionnaire. It explains what a sample is and demonstrates random, systematic and stratified sampling methods. Practice can be found on page 405 of the textbook. 


Lesson 46 - Types of Data
46. Types-of-Data.pptx

Lesson 47 - Averages and Range

This lesson teaches you how to calculate the mean, median, mode and range of a set of data, understanding what each is and how to calculate each. Practice can be found on page 416-425 of the textbook. 


Lesson 47 - Averages and Range
47. Averages-and-Range.pdf

48. Averages of grouped data

48. Averages of grouped data
48. Averages of grouped data.pdf

49. Stem and Leaf Diagrams

49. Stem and Leaf Diagrams
49. Stem and Leaf diagrams.pdf

50. Frequency polygons

Frequency polygons. This lesson shows you how to construct a frequency polygon by finding the midpoints of the groups and plotting the frequency. Practice can be found on page 433. 

50. Frequency polygons
50. Frequency polygons.pdf

Lesson 51 - Histograms

This lesson shows you how to draw and interpret histograms. It shows you about Frequency density and how the area represents the frequency. Practice can be found on page 434.

Lesson 51
51.Histograms.ppt

Lesson 52 - Cumulative Frequency

This lesson shows you how to draw a cumulative frequency graph and use it to find the median, lower and upper quartiles and the interquartile range. Practice can be found on page 437.

Lesson 52
52. Cumulative Frequency.pdf

Lesson 53 - Time Series Graphs

This lesson shows you what a time series graph is and how to interpret it. Practice can be found on page 440. 

Lesson 53
53. Time series.pdf

Lesson 54 - Scattergraphs 

This lesson shows you how to draw a scattergraph and understand correlation and how to find data using the graph. Practice can be found on page 442 with exam style questions on pages 449. 

Lesson 54
54. Scatter Graphs.pdf

Lesson 55. Quadrilaterals

This lesson talks you through the properties of quadrilaterals including parallel sides, lines of symmetry and rotational symmetry. 

55.Quadrilaterals .mp4
55. quadrilaterals.pptx

Lesson 56 - Circles and Arcs

There are three parts to this lesson - parts of a circle (start with this), area of a circle and sector and circumference and arc length. For more practice see pages 353-357 in the textbook. 

56. Arc Length.mp4
56. Arc Length.pdf
56. Parts circle and Circumference.pdf
56. Parts of circle.mp4
56. Area of circle and sectors.mp4
56. Area of a circle and sector.pptx

Lesson 57. Plans and Elevations.

This lesson explains the definition of a plan, front elevation and side elevation demonstrating how to draw each. Practice can be found on page 358. 

57. Plans and Elevations.mp4
57. Plans-and-elevations.pdf

Lesson 58. Volume.

This lesson goes through volumes of cuboids and prisms using the area of the cross-section. Practice can be found on page 362. 

58. 3D shapes and volume of prism.mp4
58. 3D shapes and Volumes.pdf