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Formulas, Equations, Expressions and Identities

This instant maths ideas resource contains ten suggestions for activities covering collecting terms, simplifying expressions, expanding brackets, factorising, balancing equations and rearranging formulas. The resource sheets include students’ material to accompany the alphabet code activity, a page of pictures of scales for the balancing activity and letter and number cards for use with other activities. Further activities include the painted cube investigation, the hundred square investigation and an exploration of famous formulae.

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