What you need to know
Check yourself against these “I can” statements.
- I can find a counter example to show a statement is false
- I can use algebra to prove a statement, like (3n + 1)² − (3n − 1)² is always a multiple of 4
- I can write proofs about odd, even and consecutive numbers
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.
🧮 ToolVisual Proofs
Animated visual proofs of Pythagoras’ theorem, of the sums of integers, odd numbers, squares and cubes, and of key results in algebra, geometric series, trigonometry and inequalities. They play like Shape Formulas: drag the bar…
These are the pages for Proof in the GCSE scheme of work, following Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Mathematics, Higher tier (1MA1). Open this topic in Mr Wells Maths to see it alongside the rest of the course.