Year 10 / GCSE · Maths
Special Numbers Powers Roots Standard Form
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- Add Directed Numbers
- Calculate Square Roots (Without a Calculator)
- Estimate Powers and Roots
- Evaluate and Use Negative Indices
- Evaluate Positive Indices
- Find Cubes and Cube Roots
- Find Factors
- Find HCF and LCM Using a Venn Diagram
- Find Multiples of Numbers
- Find Prime Factors
- Find the Highest Common Factor
- Find the Lowest Common Multiple (LCM)
- Identify Rational and Irrational Numbers
- Identify Square Numbers
- Multiply and Divide Directed Numbers
- Order Indices, Roots and Reciprocals
- Recognise Powers of 2, 3, 4 and 5
- Recognise Prime Numbers
- Simplify Surds Using Square Factors
- Subtract Directed Numbers
- Work with Exact Values Involving Pi
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Negatives: addition and subtraction
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Square root of a decimal
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Approximating square roots
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Negative indices
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Numerical indices and powers
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Cube roots
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Factors
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HCF and LCM using products of primes
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Multiples
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Product of prime factors
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Common factors and HCF
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Rational and irrational numbers
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Square numbers
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Multiplying negative numbers
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Ordering numbers by value
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Calculations involving negative numbers lesson slides
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Roots and integer indices lesson slides
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Squares and Square Roots
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Estimating powers and roots walkthrough
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Negative and zero indices lesson slides
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Essential Skills: multiples, factors and prime numbers
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HCF, LCM and prime factorisation lesson pack
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Prime factorisation lesson slides
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Classifying rational and irrational numbers
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Simplifying surds lesson slides
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Area and circumference in terms of pi walkthrough
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Arithmetic involving negative numbers
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Roots of decimals and fractions
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Approximating square roots practice
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Negative indices practice questions
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Indices practice questions
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Cube numbers and cube roots
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Multiples, factors and primes
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Product of primes, LCM and HCF
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Rational and irrational numbers practice
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Square numbers and square roots
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