Maths skills for physics exams

This resource covers maths skills required for physics exam questions. It is a power point with over 70 slides that include; teaching the required skills, practice tasks and exam style questions. It is organised in an order that flows from one skill to another with action buttons that take you directly to each skill and home buttons so you can easily return to the home slide.

This resource can be used at the start of the physics course (by providing pupils with a copy of the equations) or as revision before the exam when pupils should know the equations. This cannot be done in 1 lesson and could be spread over a number of lessons or dipped into when a skill is required!

Much of this is relevant to Biology and Chemistry also.

Skills covered are:

• Standard index units
• Significant figures
• Converting units
• Equations – Substitution
• Equations – rearranging
• Standard form
• Percentage and efficiency
• Ratios
• Unfamiliar Equations
• Graph interpretation
• Gradients