Overview
Walker Maths Essentials is a series of workbooks for teachers to build courses appropriate to their students. In this way, students get resources pitched at the right level, to support their individual learning as they strengthen their skills in a particular strand. Each strand is supported by a set of four workbooks graded by curriculum level.
The well-designed, write-on workbooks contain teaching material, worked examples, carefully graded practice exercises, puzzles and challenges for those needing extension. Two comprehensive “test yourself” quizzes are provided at the end of each book.
We have taken all your favourite elements of the Senior Walker Maths series and incorporated them in to Walker Maths Essentials.
Digital Teacher Resources are available across all Walker Maths Essentials titles for teachers that adopt the corresponding workbooks. Each digital resource includes a Walker Maths Essentials projection file and Answers. Please contact your Learning Consultant for more details or email nz.sales@cengage.com
Glossary
Revision
Working with integers
The language of algebra
From words to expressions
Finding the value of a symbol
Phrases to expressions
More about variables
Simplifying expressions
Multiplying
Dividing
Putting it together
Like terms
Adding and subtracting
Mixing it up
Challenge 1
Formulae and substitution
Challenge 2
Solving equations
Adding and subtracting
Find the errors
Multiplying and dividing
Mixing it up
Challenge 3
Forming then solving equations
Understanding instructions in algebra
Patterns
Continuing patterns
From pictures to numbers
Describing patterns
Patterns into tables
Finding term ‘zero’
Finding the rule from shapes and a table
Finding the rule from a description
Finding the rule from a list
Applications
Finding a term from a rule
Finding the sequence from the rule
Challenge 4
Cross-number
Challenge 5
Graphs
Plotting points
Positive coordinates
Zero coordinates
Putting it together
Plotting a pattern on graph
Revision 1
Revision 2
Answers
Charlotte has over 10 years’ experience in teaching Mathematics, the majority of this as Assistant HOD of Mathematics and Dean of Year 9 at Darfield High School. She has also undertaken a year at St Margaret’s – a high decile, girls’ school. Here she focused on teaching the junior levels (including Year 7 and 8).
Victoria has twenty years’ experience in teaching Mathematics and has recently retired as Teacher of Mathematics and Specialist Classroom Teacher at Riccarton High School. She has received a Jim Campbell award for teaching excellence (2003) and an Ernest Duncan award in Mathematics (2007).