All my resources have been created to use with classes I teach. Often I've created resources because, for a particular topic, I haven't been happy with the number/standard of the examples in a textbook. Sometimes I've created worksheets for certain topics (e.g. graph transformations) because I feel my classes will make greater progress on a printed worksheet than trying to work from a textbook. I always aim to produce high-quality resources that improve the students' learning and understanding.
All my resources have been created to use with classes I teach. Often I've created resources because, for a particular topic, I haven't been happy with the number/standard of the examples in a textbook. Sometimes I've created worksheets for certain topics (e.g. graph transformations) because I feel my classes will make greater progress on a printed worksheet than trying to work from a textbook. I always aim to produce high-quality resources that improve the students' learning and understanding.
These 2 resources cover all the required knowledge and techniques for trigonometry, as required for the AS part of the new A level. In every section it contains notes, explanations and examples to work through with your class followed by an exercise of questions for students to attempt themselves (answers included).
The first resource is a 27-page booklet which covers the following:
1.The graphs of trigonometric functions, their period and amplitude/asymptotes
2.Exact values of trigonometric functions
3.Trigonometric identities
4.Finding the value of other trigonometric functions given, for example, sin x = 0.5 where x is obtuse
5.Solving trigonometric equations (3 different exercises on this, with increasing difficulty)
The second resource is a 13-question assessment that can be used as a homework or test. Fully worked solutions to this assessment are provided.
The third resource is a 15-page booklet which covers the following:
1.Using the sine rule to find angles/sides in a triangle
2.Ambiguous case of the sine rule
3.Using the cosine rule to find angles/sides in a triangle
4.Area of triangle = 0.5ab sin C - using this, together with the other rules, to determine the area of a triangle
This projectable and printable resource will save you having to create or write out any notes/examples when teaching the topic, and will make things easier for your students as they can just work directly on the given spaces provided for solutions. Answers to all exercises are included.
Here is an example of one of my A level resources that is freely available:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/differentiation-and-integration-with-exponential-and-trigonometric-functions-new-a-level-11981186
This 30-page resource covers all the required knowledge and techniques for logarithms, as required for the new A level. In every section it contains notes, explanations and examples to work through with your class followed by an exercise of questions for students to attempt themselves (answers included).
The sections are:
1.Writing and evaluating logarithms
2.Using base 10 and base e
3.Evaluating logarithms on a calculator
4.Logarithms as the inverse of raising to a power
5.Solving equations that involve logarithms
6.Laws of logarithms
7.Solving equations with an unknown power
8.Disguised quadratic equations
In all there are over 300 questions in the various exercises for your students to work through.
This projectable and printable resource will save you having to create or write out any notes/examples when teaching the topic, and will make things easier for your students as they can just work directly on the given spaces provided for solutions. Answers to all exercises are included.
Also included is a 16-question assessment that can be used as a homework or a test. Fully worked solutions are provided.
Here is an example of one of my A level resources that is freely available:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/differentiation-and-integration-with-exponential-and-trigonometric-functions-new-a-level-11981186
This 10-page resource covers all the required knowledge and techniques for related rates of change, as required for the new A level. It contains notes, explanations and examples to work through with your class followed by an exercise of questions for students to attempt themselves (answers included).
It begins with an introductory example which shows related quantities can change at different rates and how the chain rule can be used to connect them.
There is then a summary of the method and a page of example questions to complete with your class. The exercise that follows contains over 40 questions for your students to attempt.
This projectable and printable resource will save you having to create or write out any notes/examples when teaching the topic, and will make things easier for your students as they can just work directly on the given spaces provided for solutions. Answers to all exercises are included.
Here is an example of one of my A level resources that is freely available:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/differentiation-and-integration-with-exponential-and-trigonometric-functions-new-a-level-11981186
This resource covers all the required knowledge and skills for the A2 topic of combined graph transformations.
It begins by reviewing the individual transformations and their effects on the graph or its equation.
The first section focuses on finding the equation of the curve resulting from 2 transformations - there are some examples to complete with your class and then an exercise for them to do independently. The exercise does include some questions requiring a sketch of the original and the transformed curve. Within that exercise there are questions designed to help them realise when the order of the transformations is important.
The second section focuses on examples where the transformations must be applied in the correct order. There are examples to complete and then an exercise for students to attempt themselves. The exercise includes questions where the resulting equation must be found, where the required transformations but be described, and some graph sketching.
Answers to all the questions in the exercises are included.
Here is an example of one of my A level resources that is freely available:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/differentiation-and-integration-with-exponential-and-trigonometric-functions-new-a-level-11981186
I have used this resource a few times with my classes to cover the whole topic of groups. This 24-page worksheet covers all the required knowledge and skills for FP3.
Each section starts with introductory notes or examples, followed by an exercise for students to attempt.
The sections are:
1. Sets, binary operations, closed/commutative/closed operations, identity elements and inverses.
2. Groups - definition of a group, order of a group, group tables
3. Multiplicative groups and cancellation laws
4. Groups using modular arithmetic
5.Symmetries of shapes
6. The order of an element
7. Cyclic groups and generators
8. Subgroups
9. Lagrange's theorem
10. Isomorphic groups
The completed worksheet with all notes, examples and exercises completed (with fully-worked solutions) is also included.
These resources cover all the required knowledge for the statistics element of the new AS level papers.
For each topic there are detailed notes, examples, exercises (with answers) and an assessment with fully worked solutions.
Please see the individual resources for more details.
This 15-page resource covers all the required knowledge and techniques for hypothesis testing in the A2 part of the new A level. It contains detailed notes, examples to work through with your class, and exercises of questions for students to attempt themselves (answers included).
The topics covered are:
The distribution of the sampling mean
Hypothesis tests using sample means
Hypothesis tests using correlation coefficients
This projectable and printable resource will save you having to write out or create any notes/examples when teaching this topic. It also increases how much you can get through in lessons as students don’t have to copy notes/questions and can work directly onto spaces provided for solutions. You could also email/print some or all of this for students who have missed lessons or need additional notes/practice/revision.
Also included is a 3-page assessment that covers the whole topic. Fully worked solutions are included.
Here is an example of one of my A level resources that is freely available:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/differentiation-and-integration-with-exponential-and-trigonometric-functions-new-a-level-11981186
These resources cover all the required knowledge and skills for differentiation and integration at AS level for the new A level.
Each resource contains teaching notes, examples, exercises (with solutions) and an assessment that can be used as a homework or a test.
Please see the individual resources for more details.
These resources cover all the expected knowledge and skills for both topics in the A2 part of the new A level.
Please see the individual resources for more details about their content.
This 11-page resource covers the different techniques for using integration to find the size of areas, as required for the new A level. In every section it contains notes, explanations and examples to work through with your class followed by an exercise of questions for students to attempt themselves (answers included).
The types of questions included in the examples and exercises are:
1.Area between a curve and the x-axis where some/all of the curve is below the x-axis
2.Area enclosed between two graphs
3.Area between a curve and the y-axis
This projectable and printable resource will save you having to create or write out any notes/examples when teaching the topic, and will make things easier for your students as they can just work directly on the given spaces provided for solutions. Answers to all exercises are included.
Here is an example of one of my A level resources that is freely available:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/differentiation-and-integration-with-exponential-and-trigonometric-functions-new-a-level-11981186
These resources cover all the required knowledge for the statistics element of the new A2 level papers.
For each topic there are detailed notes, examples, exercises (with answers) and an assessment with fully worked solutions.
It used to be quite easy to come up with examples to teach/practise trial and improvement, but using iteration is a very different beast and needs some carefully chosen and prepared questions. This worksheet contains a brief introduction/reminder about iterative formulae and their use in sequences, then has one example of using iteration to find a root of an equation, to work through as a class. The following exercise has 7 questions for students to attempt on their own. Answers are included.
This worksheet can be used to introduce the technique required to use trigonometry to find sides/angles in isosceles triangles.
There are 2 example problems to work through as a class then an exercise with 10 questions. The first 6 questions have diagrams provided as an aid, the last 4 questions are without diagrams.
Answers are provided.
This is a simple worksheet I use with my classes once I have taught them about the motion of objects moving vertically (so acceleration is always +/-9.8).
In section A the objects falling or projected downwards, in section B the objects are projected upwards. All answers are provided.
This 4-page worksheet introduces the method for solving quadratic inequalities of the form x^2k.
After explaining the method there is a short exercise to practise solving inequalities of the form x^2k.
There are then some examples that require simplification or rearranging to solve (e.g. 3x^2-75>0) to work through as a class, followed by an exercise of similar questions for students to attempt.
All answers are included.
The introduction activity highlights the difference between bar charts and histograms and the fundamental area=frequency property.
The main worksheet (drawing and using histograms) has an introductory section to summarise how histograms work, 3 examples to work through as a class and then 7 pages of questions for students to attempt. All answers are included, either at the end of the worksheet or on the separate solutions document.
The final document has examples of finding the median and inter-quartile range from a histogram. This is designed to be done as a class and then the students can practise this using certain questions on the main worksheet.
This set of resources contains everything you need to teach the topic of inequalities on graphs.
The students need to be confident with straight line graphs for this topic so the first worksheet is a refresher of those.
Next is a powerpoint with worked examples of finding the single inequality represented by a shaded region.
The worksheet that follows practises finding the single inequality that describes the given shaded region (4 pages).
The next worksheet practises finding the 3 inequalities that describe the given shaded region (4 pages).
The worksheet "Inequalities on graphs" gives students lots of practice drawing the shaded region (both single and multiple inequalities) and finding inequalities for shaded regions (10 pages).
The final resource is intended as a homework or summative assessment (4 pages).
All answers are included for printing/projecting for your class to check their answers.
The first worksheet studies the interior angles of polygons and is designed to help students realise the method for working out the sum of the interior angles of an n-sided polygon. There is also a short exercise of questions to practise using the rules they have found.
The second worksheet studies the interior and exterior angles or regular polygons and is designed to help students realise the easiest way to find the interior/exterior angle of an n-sided polygon or to work out the number of sides of a regular n-sided polygon with a given interior or exterior angle. There is also a short exercise of questions to practise using the rules they have found.
Answers to both exercises are included.
Each worksheet contains 30 questions.
The first worksheet has examples of the form (a+b)^2 and (a-b)^2.
The second worksheet has examples of the form (a+b)(a-b).
All answers are included.