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AS 9702 · 1.3 · Physical quantities and units · Lesson bundle

Measurement uncertainties

The skill that runs through every practical, made lesson-ready: tell random from systematic error and precision from accuracy, then find and combine uncertainties and quote a result properly. Plan, worksheet with answers, slides, and a Rally Coach activity with a full facilitation guide, built around the four target boards and the site simulation Accuracy and Precision.

Syllabus
9702, 1.3
Level
AS
Duration
60 minutes
Activity
Rally Coach
Core visual
The four target boards
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Every part, two ways

Each part of the bundle opens right here on the site, projectable in any browser, and downloads as an editable file, never a locked PDF. Adapt them to your set, your timing and your school's calendar.

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Lesson plan

The 60-minute plan, with the target boards, the random-versus-systematic distinction, the combining rules, two worked examples, examiner traps and differentiation.

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Worksheet and answers

Original AS questions across recall, reading uncertainties, combining uncertainties, expressing a result and reasoning, with a full worked answer key.

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Slides

Your actual slides, presented right in the browser, with the live simulation linked beneath; the download is fully editable.

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21st century skills activity

Rally Coach on a six-problem set, with the PIES rationale, a facilitation guide and a full teacher answer key, so it runs faithfully.

The matching topic page and simulation

Send learners to the lesson online

This bundle pairs with the student topic page Errors and uncertainties, which carries the interactive explanation, and with the site simulation Accuracy and Precision, which plots repeated readings against a true value so learners can see precision and accuracy come apart.

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How it is built

Feedback at the elbow

Uncertainty work is procedural, and learners go wrong in predictable places: adding percentages for a sum, forgetting to multiply a percentage by its power, or thinking more readings cure a systematic shift. The lesson front-loads the two distinctions with the four target boards, then drills the arithmetic.

Rally Coach puts a coach at every solver's elbow, so a misapplied rule is caught the moment it appears rather than at marking. The activity ships with a six-problem set and a full teacher answer key, so it can be run faithfully.

Original work by the TheLucidSTEM team. Questions are written in the style of the papers; no past paper question is reproduced. Supplied in editable formats so you can adapt them freely.
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