Rationalising Surds (D) WORKSHEET

Suitable for Year groups: Year 10, Year 11
GCSE Tier: Higher
Targeting grades: 8-9
Prerequisite knowledge: Simplifying surds, expanding brackets.
Learning Objective: Rationalising denominators

Rationalising Surds (D) WORKSHEET DESCRIPTION

This worksheet provides a comprehensive selection of questions on rationalising the denominator.

Section A has 20 simple surd fractions which need rationalising or simplifying.

Section B then includes surd fractions where multiplication by a conjugate is required to rationalise the denominator.

Section C then provides more exam-style questions of this harder type of rationalising.

All worksheets are created by the team of experienced teachers at Cazoom Maths.

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