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In my experience practice makes perfect and the best way to do this is to immerse yourself with as much past papers as you can do. Maths is maths so don't be afraid to check other exam boards for their pa...

Factorise means to put into brackets and solve means to find values of x that make the equation true.We need to find two numbers that multiply to make 15 and add together to make -8. They both need to be ...

3x^2+3x-2x-2
3x(x+1)-2(x+1)
(3x-2)(x+1)

It is better to think of it as substituting one equation into another, rather than thinking of it as ‘making it equal to zero’. Say you have a quadratic equation y = x^2 - x - 6 and you want to find it’s ...

If you look at a set of x,y-axes, and imagine any curve going through both axes (you don't have to be able to imagine what this graph of f looks like just yet). Now imagine the part of the graph that cros...