Simplifying Surds (A) WORKSHEET

Suitable for Year groups: Year 10, Year 11
GCSE Tier: Higher
Targeting grades: 6-7
Prerequisite knowledge: Square numbers, square roots, prime numbers.
Learning Objective: Simplifying larger roots using surds

Simplifying Surds (A) WORKSHEET DESCRIPTION

This worksheet provides lots of practice of simplifying surds.

Section A structures the process by providing tables to complete with hints on an intermediate step before finding the final simplified value.

Section B then provides more questions to tackle without the aid of this intermediate step.

Section C then again provides a large table to complete where learners will need to work forwards and backwards through the surd simplification process.

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

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Simplifying larger roots using surds