Expanding and Factorising Mixed Exercise WORKSHEET
Suitable for Year groups: Year 8, Year 9, Year 10
GCSE Tier: Foundation/Higher
Targeting grades: 4-5
Prerequisite knowledge: Operations with negative numbers. Indices rules for multiplication and division.
Expanding and Factorising Mixed Exercise WORKSHEET DESCRIPTION
Your learners will practice expanding single brackets and taking out one-term factors throughout this worksheet, a great consolidation or review activity.
In section A, students will simplify expressions where two or more terms are multiplied together, reinforcing negative number operations and indices rules for multiplication.
Sections B and C see pupils expanding single brackets This includes expressions that need to be simplified after the expansion for example expressions that contain two single brackets. Students will end with ten expressions to factorise. Some expressions contain more than one common factor and not all are linear.
