The New English School: Mathematics department

Year 9 (Upper Band) End of Year Revision sheet (2010/2011)

You will need a calculator, pencil, pen and ruler for this examination.
On the day of the examination, you need to bring your textbook to school.

1) Arithmetic 1. Fractions, Decimals,Indices, Standard Form,

Decimal Places, Significant Figures
Range of values
Problems inv. Range of numbers Chapter 1
Squares, Cubes, Roots p. 1 - 25
Problems involving approximated numbers Lesson notes

2) Algebra 1. Directed numbers

Simplification of alg. Expressions. Chapter 2
Linear Equations p. 26 - 37
Linear inequalities Lesson notes
Exponential equations Chapter 3
Sequences p. 47 - 52

3) Matrices. Size of a matrix.

Addition of matrices.
Scalar multiples of matrix. Chapter 4
Matrix multiplication, powers of a matrix. p. 53 - 75

4) Algebra 2. Formulae.
Substitution into formulae
Constructing formulae, solving the constructed formula. Chapter 2
Changing the subject p. 38 - 46

5) Arithmetic 2. Simplification of ratio's, division in given ratio

Simple Proportion
Inverse proportion. Chapter 17
Variation p. 288 - 303

6) Arithmetic 3. Convertion between fractions, decimals and percentage,

Expressing one quantity as a percentage of another
% incr and decr.
Reverse percentages.
Simple interest. Chapter 5
Compound interest p. 76 - 92

7) Graphs. x = a and y = b.
Graphing y = mx + c
The gradient of line, calculating the gradient.
Equation of a line in form y=mx+c

Page 1 EOY Rev 9U

 Sketching graphs
Mid-point of a line segment Chapter 6
perpendicular bisector of a line segment p. 93 - 117
distance between two points Lesson notes

8) Algebra 3. Solution of simultaneous equations by elimination

Solution of simultaneous equations by substitution Chapter 7
Graphical solution p. 118 - 131

9) Matrices 2. Square, unit, zero matrices.

The determinant, the inverse.
Singular matrices Chapter 8
Solution of simultaneous equations using matrices p. 132 - 148

11) Algebra 4 Expanding brackets.

Perfect squares. Chapter 11
The difference between 2 squares p. 192 - 204

12) Algebra 5 Factorising. Chapter 12

ax2+bx+c p. 205 - 221
Completing the square Lesson notes

13) Algebra 6 Solution of quadratic equation by factorisation

Solution by completing the square
Problems leading to factorisable quadratic equations
Sol of simultaneousd equations, one linear, one non-linear Chapter 13
Disguised quadratic equations p. 222 - 237

14) Geometry 1 Pythagoras' theorem & triads

Problems inv. Pythag Chapter 19
Converse of Pythagoras p. 326 - 334

15) Geometry2 Revision of angles on line, parallel lines. Chapter 20

Three figure bearings. p. 342 - 349

16) Trigonometry Sin, Cos, Tan of an acute angle

Finding a missing angle.
Finding a missing side.
Problems inv. Trig Chapter 18
Angles of elev/ depression p. 304 - 325
Problems inv trig, bearings, Pythag Chapter 19
3D Problems p. 335-341

17) Algebra 7 Simplification of algebraic fractions

Addition & subtraction of algebraic Fractions Chapter 23
Problems inv algebraic fractions p. 386 - 406

Page 2 EOY Rev 9U