Topic 15 Year 9 Mathematics
| Mathematics | |||
| Topic | Growth and Decay | ||
| No of lessons | 8 | ||
| When is it happening | Term 3 | ||
| What will students learn | Students work with multipliers and repeated growth and decay. Experience real life experiences with interest rates and ideas of growth and decay | ||
| Key Knowledge that students should know at the end of 'Topic' | This is the knowledge that students will meet for the first time in this topic | Students work with multipliers and repeated growth and decay. Experience real life experiences with interest rates and ideas of growth and decay | |
| This is knowledge that students may have met before but will need to deepen their understanding | Students work with multipliers and repeated growth and decay. Experience real life experiences with interest rates and ideas of growth and decay | ||
| Key Skills that students should be able to demonstrate at the end of 'Topic' | This is the skills that students will meet for the first time in this topic | Use of multipliers | |
| This is skills that students may have met before but will need to develop | Converting between percentages & decimals | ||
| Key vocabulary that students should know and understand | |||
| The Big Question | Find the value of £300 invested over 2 years @3% interest? | ||
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Key questions that students should be able to answer at the end of the 'Topic' |
Write 4% increase as a multiplier | ||
| Write 3.5% decrease as a multiplier? | |||
| A car decreases in value by 15% each year, how long until it halves in value? | |||
| Bacteria increases by 3% per minute, how long until it doubles? | |||