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What Makes a Point the Midpoint?

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Orienting Yourself: The Use of Coordinates · Challenge explorations · 4:28

You'll learn: Check that a midpoint lies on the segment and divides it equally. Discover coordinate averages.

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What Makes a Point the Midpoint?

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You'll learn: Check that a midpoint lies on the segment and divides it equally. Discover coordinate averages.

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Are Three Points on One Straight Line?
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Are Three Points on One Straight Line?
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Build Isosceles Triangles Using Coordinates
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Build Isosceles Triangles Using Coordinates
You'll learn: Construct the two requested triangle types and verify their properties.
Find a Missing Endpoint from the Midpoint
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Find a Missing Endpoint from the Midpoint
You'll learn: Reverse the coordinate-average relationship to find an unknown endpoint.
Divide a Segment into Three Equal Parts
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Divide a Segment into Three Equal Parts
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Is a Point Inside, On or Outside a Circle?
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Is a Point Inside, On or Outside a Circle?
You'll learn: Find a common radius from distances to the origin and classify additional points.
Rebuild a Triangle from Its Side Midpoints
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Rebuild a Triangle from Its Side Midpoints
You'll learn: Combine three midpoint relationships to recover the original triangle vertices.

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Expressions and polynomials

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Build an Algebraic Expression from a Shopping Story
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Build an Algebraic Expression from a Shopping Story
You'll learn: Translate quantities, repeated groups and a fixed extra into an expression. Identify terms, variables and constants.
Why Do Fencing and Planting Produce Different Terms?
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Why Do Fencing and Planting Produce Different Terms?
You'll learn: Model boundary costs and area costs and compare their algebraic terms.
One Wire, Many Rectangles: Express the Area
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One Wire, Many Rectangles: Express the Area
You'll learn: Use a fixed perimeter to express width and area using one variable.
What Is a Polynomial in One Variable?
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What Is a Polynomial in One Variable?
You'll learn: Distinguish expressions involving one variable from the opening two-variable examples.
Find Coefficients, Constant Terms and Missing Terms
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Find Coefficients, Constant Terms and Missing Terms
You'll learn: Read signed coefficients and recognise an absent power as having coefficient zero.
Degree: The Highest Power Tells the Type
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Degree: The Highest Power Tells the Type
You'll learn: Identify constant, linear, quadratic and cubic polynomials and construct examples.
What Makes a Polynomial Linear?
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What Makes a Polynomial Linear?
You'll learn: Recognise degree-one expressions and distinguish them from quadratic and cubic forms.

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Linear rules and equations

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A Square’s Perimeter Grows at a Constant Rate
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A Square’s Perimeter Grows at a Constant Rate
You'll learn: Connect a change in side length to a constant change in perimeter.
Joining Fee Plus Match Fee: Build a Linear Rule
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Joining Fee Plus Match Fee: Build a Linear Rule
You'll learn: Separate a starting amount from an amount added per match and work backwards from a total.