Set indices and surds for your class
Auto-marked test, shared by link
Opens the Teacher Zone with every topic in this chapter ticked. Students are marked as soon as they finish, with worked solutions.
Create a testPrintable practice exam
A PDF with marks, a suggested time and answers, including questions that need working or an explanation.
Build an examWhat Year 9 Indices and surds covers
9 topics, in textbook order.
- Index notation
- Index laws for multiplication and division
- Index laws for power of a power and the zero index
- Index laws for brackets and fractions
- Negative indices
- Scientific notation
- Scientific notation using significant figures
- Fractional indices and surds
- Simple operations with surds
Printable worksheets and topic tests
Each practice sheet is a free PDF (10 questions, answers on the last page). The full 20-question test with an answer key is emailed to you.
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Revision mind map
Year 9 Indices and surds: the whole chapter on one page
Index notation, the index laws, zero and negative indices, scientific notation, fractional indices and simple surds. A worked example for each topic, ready to print on A4 for revision or to put on the board.
View and download (PDF)Ideas for using them in class
Questions 1 to 4 of each topic test are the basics. Put one or two on the board to start the lesson.
Set a 5-question auto-marked test at the end of a lesson. Students see their mark straight away, and you see who needs another go when they tell you their score.
Print the practice sheet with the answers on the last page so students can self-mark, or share a Teacher Zone link and it marks itself.
The full 20-question test runs from the basics to harder problems. A week before the real test, it shows students where their gaps are.
The printable exam builder mixes topics with marks and a suggested time, for end-of-term and end-of-year revision.
The last section of each full test (questions 17 to 20) has multi-step and problem-solving questions for students who finish early.
Other Year 9 chapters
- Reviewing number and financial mathematics
- Expressions and linear equations
- Pythagoras' theorem and trigonometry
- Linear relationships
- Measurement
- Geometry
- Algebraic techniques
- Probability and statistics
- Introduction to quadratic equations and graphs
Chapter and topic names follow Cambridge Essential Mathematics for the Victorian Curriculum. Questions are Tuterly’s own. Tuterly isn’t affiliated with Cambridge University Press.