Simple And Compound Interest For — Interactive Lesson (Ages 14–16)

Simple and Compound Interest is a completely interactive lesson for learners taking GCSE (1-9).

Learning Objectives: In this lesson, learners will be able to solve problems involving percentage change, including percentage increase, decrease and original value problems and simple interest in financial mathematics.

What is in the lesson:

• 34 interactive slides;
• Drag and drop activities with instant learner feedback;
• Differentiated questions upper and lower bounds, as well as answers
• Printable interactive worksheets

Teachers can use this lesson for whole-class teaching. It can also be used for practice and revision by learners at home.

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Other topics in this category include

• systematic listing strategies
• estimating powers and roots of any given positive number
• indices
• surds
• fractional indices
• standard form
• recurring decimals
• ratio and proportions
• rounding and estimations
• simplify and manipulate algebraic expressions
• algebraic fractions
• factorising quadratic expressions of the form x² + bx + c
• the difference of 2 squares
• factorising quadratic expressions of the form ax² + bx + c
• simplifying expressions involving sums, products and powers

Ratio, proportion and rates of change

• compound measures
• the gradient of a straight line
• direct and inverse proportion

Geometry and measures

• circle theorems
• bearings
• arc lengths sector area
• congruence and similarity
• Pythagoras’ Theorem
• trigonometry

Probability

• probabilities of mutually exclusive events
• conditional probabilities with two-way tables
• conditional probabilities with tree diagrams
• conditional probabilities with Venn diagrams

Statistics

• histograms
• cumulative frequency graphs
• box and whisker plots
• scatter graphs

Designed for ages 14–16 (UK Year 10–11 / US 9th Grade–10th Grade). Aligned to the UK National Curriculum; adaptable to US state standards.