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 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.