Key terms & definitions

A short story, often involving animals, that communicates a moral lesson. Animal Farm uses recognisable animal behaviour to expose human political wrongdoing.

A short fictional story, often involving animals, that conveys a lesson about behaviour.

Cutting, shaping and joining materials to make a product or structure.

A pre-cut piece of fabric supplied in set dimensions, such as a square for patchwork.

A treatment applied after fabric has been made to improve its appearance, feel or other properties.

An additional layer attached to fabric to strengthen, stabilise or stiffen selected areas of a textile product.

Applying textile paint to fabric to create colour, images or patterns.

A length of fabric wound around a tube and usually sold by the metre.

Large, sharp scissors used to cut fabric manually.

The measurement across a fabric roll, from one side edge to the other. Standard widths specified here are 90 cm, 137 cm and 154 cm.

A flat part of the surface of a 3D shape. Each face is a two-dimensional shape.

Envy experienced after viewing other people’s personal information on Facebook.

A line segment joining opposite corners of a flat face of a solid.

Lathe work in which timber is secured to a plate attached to the headstock, allowing shapes such as bowls to be produced.

Selling through direct, in-person interaction between a customer and a business representative.

A group organised around a powerful individual, competing for influence, offices or rewards.

A professional racing organisation which supplied horses, drivers and support workers; Roman racing had Blue, Green, Red and White factions.

Organising a separate group within the Communist Party to promote policies against the party leadership. Lenin banned such factions in 1921.

An explanation for why something happened, such as war, religion or government action.

A multiplicative comparison found by dividing one value by another; for example, a factor of 2 means twice as large.

An expression multiplied as a whole, such as $(x+4)$ in $(x+4)(x-2)$.

A positive whole number that divides another whole number exactly, leaving no remainder; it is also called a divisor.

The product of all positive integers from a given positive integer down to 1, written using an exclamation mark: for example, $4! = 4 \times 3 \times 2 \times 1 = 24$.

The way two or more influences work together, with one enabling, strengthening or limiting another.

Writing an expression as a product of factors.

Factorising pairs or groups of terms separately so that a shared factor, often a whole bracket, can then be extracted.

Writing an expression as a product of factors, often so that a repeated variable can be isolated.

Rewriting an expression as a product, usually by taking out a common factor.

Rewriting an expression as a product of factors which multiply to give the original expression.

A tenfold change: the original value is multiplied or divided by 10.