Scheme of work for text Active Maths 3

Chapter

Title

Content

National 

curriculum level

 Number of weeks

Additional resources in folder

Comments

IT Opportunities

AT

6

7

8

1. Arithmetic1

·  Basic principles

·  More calculator buttons

·  % profit and loss

·  Problem solving

·  Revision exercises

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2 weeks

See Hard Drive Word

·  Test Chapter 1

Single lesson

2.Graphs

·  Basic principles

·  Graph relationships

·  Understanding graphs

·  Investigating graphs

·  Travel graphs

·  Revision exercises

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2 weeks

·      Bottles ws

·     Use a spread sheet to investigate graphs initially

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·  Basic algebra test 1

Single lesson

3. Algebra

·  Basic principles

·  Brackets

·  Symbolic expression

·  Problem solving

·  Simplifying algebraic fractions

·  Solving algebraic fractions

·  Simultaneous equations

·  Inequalities

·  Revision exercises

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3 weeks

·       Inequalities ws

Hard Drive: Publisher

Finding nth term of sequence

Investigation: Number Walls allows extension in algebra

·     Text uses substitution, worth looking at but teach elimination

Use AM 4 Ex 33-35

Omnigraph: Solution of simultaneous equtions graphically

·  Test Chapter 1 to 3

Double lesson

Test Chapters 1 to 3                                       Approximately  October half term

Investigation (see above)

Basic test 2

Single lesson

4. Geometry 1

·  Basic principles

·  Angles of a circle

·  Similar triangles

·  Gradients

·  Revision exercises

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2 weeks

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SSM16,SMM17

SSM18

5. Trigonometry

·  Basic principles

·  Tangent and ratio

·  Sine and cosine ratio

·  Miscellaneous problems

·  Revision exercises

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3 weeks

·     Students may not have met Pythagoras’ theorem yet.

·  Basic test 3

Single lesson

6. Proportion

·  Basic principles

·  Change of units

·  Comparative costs

·  Problem solving

·  Inverse proportion

·  Science problems

·  Revision exercises

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·     An easy but interesting HW. Students to find cost/litre of everyday items eg bleach, perfume, tippex

·  Exchange rate (mental)

·  Basic algebra test 2

2 x single lesson

Test Chapters 4 to 6                                    Approximately  January

Investigation

7. Algebra 2

·  Equations

·  Trial and improvement

·  Inequalities

·  Circumference of a circle

·  Area of a circle

·  Pythagoras’ theorem

·  The cylinder

·  Formulae

·  Rearranging formulae

·  Revision exercises

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4 weeks

·      Perimeter problem ws

·     Rearranging ws

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·     Excel

SSM20

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·  Pencil and paper test

Single lesson

8. Graphs 2

·  Basic principles

·  Graphs of y = ax

·  Graphs of y = ax + b

·  Graphs of y = ax²

·  Graphs of y = a/x

·  Revision exercises