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Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.

SUBSTITUTION

Can you solve Fermat's Last Theorem?

Key questions

  1. Do we remember the priority of operations?

  2. What does substitution mean?

  3. Can we substitute into expressions?

  4. Can we write simple formulae?

  5. Can we use formulae?

3 lessons

Specification detail

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Literacy

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The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensburger

Wiles

Introduce...

perimeter - 1, 2

mazes - 1

heart rate - 1, 2, 3

il machina - 1, 2

Develop...

flow diagrams - 1, 2 , 3

formulas - 1, 3

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