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Mr Brewin’s Year 9 – Open Box Problem

Here’s the spreadsheet you can use to explore this further. (Right click on the link and ‘Download Linked File As…’ or ‘Save Link As…)

Homework: spend 30 mins exploring and writing up your conclusions on this problem. Hand your books in to me tomorrow morning before registration into my tray outside the staff room.

Mr Riedel’s Year 8 class – Area

Click here to see the stuff we covered in class today.

Homework tonight is to do exercise 7G on page 154.  Bring your completed work to tomorrow’s lesson.

Mr Riedel’s Year 10 class – Sectors

If you need a reminder of the more complex sectors example we looked at in the lesson this morning, click here.

No homework was set for tonight.

Mr Riedel’s Year 10 class – Area of circles and sectors

Click here for a reminder of the work we looked at in Monday’s lesson introducing area.

All the formulae we looked at must be memorised as they do not appear on the Formula Sheet in the GCSE examination.

 Homework is on page 93 of the Practice book. Exercise 19.1, question 1. Hand this work in on Wednesday 14th [...]

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Mr Riedel’s Year 8 class – Area of a triangle

Click here for a reminder of the material we looked at in the session today.

Homework set yesterday must be handed in by Friday at the latest.

Mr Riedel’s Year 8 class – Area of Parallelograms

We introduced Area by looking at the area of a parallelogram. Click here to see the notes from the session.

Homework is from the exercise we began in class, Ex 7B on pages 138 and 139, questions 16, 17, 18 and 22. Bring these to class tomorrow.