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All rights reserved.\n2\nExampro\nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nAQA’s Exampro question banks prepare students for their first public exams. Explore thousands of past questions with their associated mark schemes and examiner comments to create compilations suiting your students’ needs.\nEmbed questions in:\nhomework, to familiarise students with exam materials\nclass teaching, for greater understanding of what’s being asked\ndifferentiated, targeted assessments, to check learning of content and skills\nrevision resources, for the best preparation.\nAQA’s MERiT offers high-quality feedback from mock exams. See the strengths and weaknesses of your class to identify teaching focus; share performance data with SLT; and view student reports to support individual progress.\n3\nAgenda\nGCSE: KS3 – KS4\nBridging the gap\nComposite functions\nUse of colour\nFunctions – building blocks\nSpot the mistake – Andy Lutwyche\nAQA Key Stage 3 tests for Years 7, 8 and 9\nGCSE – KS4\nAQA GCSE: 90 maths problem-solving questions\nGCSE: Completion tasks\nHere’s the diagram, what’s the question?\nThe answer is, what was the question?\nGCSE: Foundation\nGCSE: Use of technology – PhET Sims\nGCSE Foundation – Venn diagrams\nGCSE Higher – inequalities\nGCSE methods in mathematics\n4\nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nEngaging explanations\n‘When presenting content and ideas to students we need ‘engaging explanations that are just right for the students: neither too short nor too long; neither too complex nor too simple.’\nCoe, R., Rauch, C.J., Kime, S., & Singleton, D. (2020). Great Teaching Toolkit: Evidence Review. Evidence Based Education. https://www.greatteaching.com/\n5\nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nGCSE: KS3 – KS4\nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\n6\nGCSE: KS3 – KS4\nAQA: Key Stage 3 – 4 – Bridging the gap.\nAQA: Key Stage 3 tests for Years 7, 8 and 9.\n7\nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nBridging the gap – teacher guide\nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\n8\nBridging the gap – teacher guide\n9\nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nBridging the gap – function notation\nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\n10\nDoes the order of operations matter?\nHow do we write the algebraic notation differently in the first two functions machines? In the next two machines?\nHow do we usually show division when using algebra? (ie, display vertically rather than\nusing the ÷ symbol.)\nBridging the gap – function notation\nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\n11\nStress the difference between functions h and p, and how important it is to draw the division line\nbetween the correct terms.\nFor function q, try to discourage answers being left in the form\n(x2 + 11) × 7\nFor function r, discuss how this could be simplified to 49x2 + 11\nComposite functions\nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\n12\nComposite functions\nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\n13\nExample\nf(x) = x2\nf(3) = 32 = 9\ng(x) = x − 2\ng(9) = 9 − 2 = 7\ngf(3) = g(f(3)) = g(32) = 9\ng(9) = 9 − 2 = 7\ngf(3) = 7\nComposite functions\nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\n14\nUse of colour\nLike terms                      \t\tFactorisation\n6a + 4b + 2a - 5b           \t\t5x2y + 15xy2\n8a - b                                         \t \t5xxy + 5×3xyy\n5xy(x + 3y)\nOrder of operations\n4 + 2 × 3\n4 + 6\n10\n15\nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\nFunctions – building blocks\nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\n16\nCredit:: Andy Lutwych/TES CC-BY-SA https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/\nFunctions – building blocks\nCopyright © 2022 AQA and its licensors. All rights reserved.\n17\nh(−4)=−8\nx=−4\nx=2\ng^","cbCaibIYfdIgtG21","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibIYfdIgtG21","pptx",7218406,53,"English","# Welcome\n# Agenda\n# Engaging explanations\n# GCSE: KS3 – KS4\n## Bridging the gap\n## Composite functions\n## Use of colour\n## Functions – building blocks\n## Spot the mistake – Andy Lutwyche\n## AQA Key Stage 3 tests for Years 7, 8 and 9\n# GCSE – KS4\n## AQA GCSE: 90 maths problem-solving questions\n## GCSE: Completion tasks\n## Here’s the diagram, what’s the question?\n## The answer is, what was the question?\n# GCSE: Foundation\n## Use of technology – PhET Sims\n## Foundation – Venn diagrams\n## Higher – inequalities","[{\"question\":\"What learning support does AQA provide alongside the maths content?\",\"answer\":\"AQA’s Exampro question banks help prepare students for their first public exams with past questions, mark schemes, and examiner comments. 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