Teach solving equations and rearranging formulae step by step with this KS3 maths workbook. Includes 20 worked examples, structured practice and full teacher answers.

Balance models, bar models and inverse-operation diagrams help pupils understand each method before working independently.

Topics covered:

• Equality, unknowns, inverse operations and checking solutions by substitution.
• One-step and two-step equations, negative coefficients and unknowns on both sides.
• Equations involving brackets, fractions and decimals.
• Forming equations from word problems and geometry.
• Substituting into formulae and changing the subject, including brackets and fractions.
• Clearly marked optional extension: identities, equations with no solution, and rearrangements where the subject appears twice.

Teaching and practice:

• Diagnostic questions, clear rules and numbered worked steps.
• Guided and independent practice with dotted answer spaces.
• Mixed practice, error correction and delayed retrieval.
• Two 20-mark final checks.
• Full answers, marking guidance and teaching notes.

Files included:

• 82-page student workbook PDF.
• 35-page teacher guide PDF.
• Editable Word versions of both documents.

117 pages in total, including covers. Text, equations and diagram labels are editable; diagrams are vector artwork.

Suitable for KS3 classroom teaching, intervention, tutoring, homework and revision.

Module 19 in the Lumivora Step-by-Step KS3 Maths series.