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
Simplifying expressions
Like terms
Adding and subtracting
Mixing it up
The language of algebra
Words to operations
Phrases to expressions
More about variables
Powers
Multiplying powers
Dividing powers
Powers of powers
Mixing it up
Challenge 1
Challenge 2
Find the errors
Brackets
Expanding
Factorising
Find the errors
Challenge 3
Formulae and substitution
An investigation
Challenge 4
Solving linear equations
Two-step equations
Equations with fractions
Equations with variables on both sides
Equations with brackets
Removeable section in centre of book. Pull out and cut up.
Inequations
Find the terrors
Solving exponential equations
Mixing it up
Solving simultaneous equations
1 Substitution
2 Elimination
Mixing it up
Challenge 5
Quadratic expressions
Expanding quadratic expressions
Factorising quadratic expressions
Solving quadratic equations
Challenge 6
Find the errors
Challenge 7
Understanding instructions in algebra
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).