Ofqual survey …
Last week I posted about the Ofqual survey and this evening I’ve spent some time completing it. I was going to critique each of the questions, but I’ll let you have […]
June 2014
Phew! and breathe!
Friday was the last “big” maths exam and I breathed a huge sigh of relief as it felt that as if the moment we’d (I mean me and my year 11’s) been […]
Best Guess Paper 2014
THIS IS FROM 2014 AND NOT THE MOST RECENT BEST GUESS PAPER –
Faith restored
A bit of a “feel good” post for the weekend … and absolutely NOTHING to do with maths!!
Tomorrow is Fathers Day (EDIT – Actually just found […]
Why teach them anything?
So Ofqual are launching an anonymous online survey next week, (TES article here) with the aim of teachers disclosing any tactics that schools have used to give students an “unfair […]
Nitty Gritty …
I got in late last night from a parish council meeting and had intended on blogging as I’ve loads to tell you but so little time! We’ve had year 11 in for revision this […]
Frequency Trees
In a previous post here about “frequency trees” I said that I was more than happy to stand corrected by AQA, so I am on my feet and have been […]
The Hokey Cokey ..
BLOG 2 OF SEVERAL
I’ve been looking over the draft specification and sample assessment material from Edexcel (sorry guys, your turn!) and immediately came […]
May 2014
New Maths #1
BLOG 1 of SEVERAL …
So the draft specifications have been published for the new GCSE, which meant that whilst the footie was on last night I […]
Compare and contrast – UPDATED!
Back in March I set out a timeline for how I thought the changes to the new Maths GCSE (here’s the link) would happen…OK I was a couple of days […]
