Year 10 Mathematics Standard · Chapter 1
Working With Letters
Year 10 Mathematics, Standard - NSW Stage 5. Working With Letters, 11 lessons, written to the NSW Mathematics syllabus.
In this chapter
What the guide holds
Every lesson runs the same way: worked examples paired with a your-turn column, a four-stage practice ladder from fluency to exam-style questions, and full worked solutions for every question at the back of the chapter.
Includes three practice examinations on this chapter, sharing no question between them, each with its own worked solutions. Sit one and keep the other two for revision.
11 lessons
Lesson by lesson
- 1.1 Reading and tidying an expression
- 1.2 Opening the brackets
- 1.3 Putting the brackets back
- 1.4 Multiplying two brackets together
- 1.5 Adding and taking away algebraic fractions
- 1.6 Multiplying and dividing algebraic fractions
- 1.7 What happens to powers when you multiply
- 1.8 Powers of powers, and why anything to the zero is one
- 1.9 Big numbers, small numbers, and the digits that matter
- 1.10 When the index goes below zero
- Putting it together
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- What does Working With Letters cover?
- Year 10 Mathematics, Standard - NSW Stage 5. Working With Letters, 11 lessons, written to the NSW Mathematics syllabus.
- How many lessons are in Working With Letters?
- 11 lessons: 1.1 Reading and tidying an expression, 1.2 Opening the brackets, 1.3 Putting the brackets back, 1.4 Multiplying two brackets together, 1.5 Adding and taking away algebraic fractions, 1.6 Multiplying and dividing algebraic fractions, 1.7 What happens to powers when you multiply, 1.8 Powers of powers, and why anything to the zero is one, 1.9 Big numbers, small numbers, and the digits that matter, 1.10 When the index goes below zero, Putting it together.
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