Y1 Indices and Surds

• Understand the meaning of a surd and why we use them

• To be able to simplify surds including where the denominator of a fraction is a surd (rationalising the denominator)

• To be able to apply the 3 laws of indices

• To be able to confidently convert between surd and index notation

• To be be able to use negative and fractional indices

GCSE Recap

Bridging material

Surds

Surds

Rationalising the denominator

Indices

Indices

Example Q