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A starting point: apples and oranges
Based on the given information, find the cost of an individual fruit. Click the “New question” button to generate a new question. Click on the question marks to reveal the answers.
You can drag the pink rectangles around to highlight selections of fruit that you want to focus on.
Skill isolation: Manipulating equations
Part 1 – Solving a pair of linear simultaneous equations by elimination (easy)
Part 1 contains easy examples where one variable either has the same coefficient in the two equations, or it has the same coefficient with the opposite sign.
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- Slides in PPTX (with click-to-reveal answers)
- Slides in PDF (one slide per page, suitable for importing into IWB software)
- Worksheet (with space for student work)
- Handout (slides with exercises only; 4 per page for reduced printing)
- Skills drill worksheet 1 – integer solutions only (15 questions on one side of A4; answers included)
- Skills drill worksheet 2 – including non-integer solutions (15 questions on one side of A4; answers included)
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Part 2 – Solving a pair of simultaneous equations by elimination (hard)
Part 2 contains harder examples where students need to multiply one or both equations by suitable integers before they can eliminate a variable.
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- Slides in PPTX (with click-to-reveal answers)
- Slides in PDF (one slide per page, suitable for importing into IWB software)
- Worksheet (with space for student work)
- Handout (slides with exercises only; 4 per page for reduced printing)
- Skills drill worksheet 1 – up to one equation requiring scaling (15 questions on one side of A4; answers included)
- Skills drill worksheet 2 – up to two equations requiring scaling (15 questions on one side of A4; answers included)
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