Edexcel Legacy Practice Questions

The marvellous Emma Bell has put together some practice questions for the final Edexcel 1MA0 paper EVER! ** sniffs back a tear** and she has agreed that it was ok to share here for those of you looking for some extra practice questions for students to do over the next 13 days …  HIGHER TIER … Read more

Best Guess Papers .. yeah right!

IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SUPPORT FOR THE 2018 PAPERS – CHECK THIS POST -> HERE  EDIT: F YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOME PRACTICE PAPERS BETWEN PAPER 2 AND PAPER 3 …YOU MAY WANT TO CHECK OUT THIS POST I bet that blog title got your attention … you may well be disappointed! We aren’t … Read more

Just Saying Part 1: 2017

Over the last couple of years I’ve written a couple of blog posts that I end up referring people to when faced with queries just to save myself repeating myself and this is one of them .. to be honest this one has been in my draft folder and I’m trying to edit and then publish it after … Read more

GCSE 9-1 New content – Venn Diagrams

For those of you that have been around a bit … (I mean teaching for a while and I’m not insinuating anything else 😉 !!) you will have taught these before. They’re a bit of a hokey-cokey topic – one minute they’re in the formal programme of study as dictated by the DFE then they’re out … Read more

Mathematical fiddle “things”

Ever since I watched the above clip from Vi Hart I’ve been fascinated with flexagons and so one night this week I made my very own trihexaflexagon. It was after I’d marked a test for one of my classes and even though we’ve spent lessons and lessons on circles there were still some students that … Read more

GCSE Maths: Preparing for your exam

For the last couple of years Graham (Cumming .. of course!) has been sending out some additional reminders for both students and teachers a few weeks before the exams. This year has been no different and he has kindly given me permission to share on here too (to which I’ve added a little extra that you … Read more

Secret Link