Assumptions—Pythagoras and Trigonometry
From Teach
- To be delivered in the Spring Term.
- Intended for a Year 10 class taking the Higher Tier Linear GCSE.
- Topic duration: Eleven 50-minute lessons plus a test spread over three consecutive weeks.
- Homework is scheduled after every even-numbered lesson; and we assume it is handed in at the next lesson.
- Board is Edexcel. 2010 specification.
- There is some applied and practical content which recognises the arrived of Functional Maths.
- Main textbook:
- Smith, A. (2006) Higher GCSE Mathematics for Edexcel, Hodder Arnold.
- We assume that some, if not most, pupils will have already been introduced to Pythagoras' Theorem.
- But we also assume that no pupils have encountered trigonometry before.