What you need to know
Check yourself against these “I can” statements.
- I can write and draw column vectors
- I can add, subtract and multiply vectors by a number
- I can describe a route between points using vectors
- I can use vectors to show that lines are parallel or that three points are on a straight line
- I can use vectors to find where two lines meet
Practise this topic
2 resources🔤 Fill the Gaps
Fill the Gaps: Maths Vocabulary
A sentence explaining one of the unit’s key words, with gaps. Pick the right word for each gap from the words scattered round it: the right ones and plenty of wrong ones. A deck for every unit.
🕹️ Topic gameVector Mini Golf
Eighteen holes of mini golf where every shot is a vector. There is no grid: each hole says how many units across and up it is, so students estimate. KS3 types a column vector; GCSE makes the shot from a and b (like 2a − b); A…
These are the pages for Vectors in the GCSE + AQA Further Maths scheme of work, following Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Higher (1MA1), plus AQA Level 2 Further Mathematics (8365). Open this topic in Mr Wells Maths to see it alongside the rest of the course.