Year 8 Mathematics · Chapter 2
Taking Expressions Apart
Year 8 Mathematics, NSW Stage 4. Taking Expressions Apart, 8 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.
8 lessons
Lesson by lesson
- 2.1 Review: pronumerals, substitution and collecting like terms
- 2.2 Review: multiplying and dividing algebraic terms
- 2.3 Review: expanding brackets with the distributive law
- 2.4 Common factors of algebraic terms
- 2.5 Factorising with a common numerical factor
- 2.6 Factorising with a common algebraic factor
- 2.7 Factorising expressions with more than two terms, and checking by expansion
- Putting it together
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- What does Taking Expressions Apart cover?
- Year 8 Mathematics, NSW Stage 4. Taking Expressions Apart, 8 lessons, written to the NSW Mathematics syllabus.
- How many lessons are in Taking Expressions Apart?
- 8 lessons: 2.1 Review: pronumerals, substitution and collecting like terms, 2.2 Review: multiplying and dividing algebraic terms, 2.3 Review: expanding brackets with the distributive law, 2.4 Common factors of algebraic terms, 2.5 Factorising with a common numerical factor, 2.6 Factorising with a common algebraic factor, 2.7 Factorising expressions with more than two terms, and checking by expansion, Putting it together.
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