GCSE 9-1 Foundation – ALGEBRA
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2 – Algebra
Elimination is banned
Let’s just say that today was an awful day and not one I want to repeat. I’m not going into detail but I’ve come home and feel immensely proud of our students and am proud to be part of such a professional and compassionate teaching staff. Lets just leave it at that. Anyway, observation was cancelled and … Read more
Trial & Improvement
Been meaning to post about this since I did the exam marking in the summer, but have been seriously busy (haven’t we all?) and just as I’m about to revise T&I with some of my one to one students its prompted me to finish the post that was started so long ago. To some of … Read more
June 1MA0 “How to …” w/sheets
I’ve mentioned before here how I used internal analysis from a previous exam paper to get the students to work independently on topics identified for them personally. We will be doing the same for some of our target students who will be retaking their exam in November – this time we will be using our … Read more
Sequences .. (Q5 Mar’13 H N/Calc)
As part of my “mastery” (not sure if that’s the right word!) series of lessons with my year 10’s – I’ve put this worksheet together for my students that didn’t get Q5 on the Edexcel March 2013 non calculator paper correct, but will be equally useful for anyone that is teaching sequences. Only another 18 questions left on … Read more
Laws of Indices
Further to my post yesterday I’ve put this worksheet together for my students that didn’t get Q9 on the Edexcel March 2013 non calculator paper correct, but will be equally useful for anyone that is teaching indices – it includes a “must. should and could” style exercise before the students attempt the exam questions on the reverse. I’m … Read more
Solving equations (1) – Connect 4
Been a bit busy today .. attached is a connect 4 – along with the solution – that I’ve done weeks ago – its the first in a series of worksheets for solving equations that I’m doing for my year 9’s. This one I’m adapting for one of the worksheets for my test review lessons (see below blogs) … so … Read more
“Mastering” the March 2013 H papers …
UPDATED 6th June 2013 There have been some interesting tweets and blogs recently about students inability to recall prior learning after a period of time and some people would suggest that students should (or shouldn’t) move on with their learning once they have “mastered” a topic or keep working on it, until they have “got … Read more
Solutions …
A recent tweet from Tom Riley (@riley_ed) reminded me that I’ve been meaning to blog (I’ve been all over the place for the last couple of weeks!!) about the worked solutions we’ll be doing for any future resources I put on the website. I know as a teacher when you have a great resource, sometimes … Read more
Expanding and simplify 2
The attached (and solution) has been put together as an extension to an earlier connect 4 I made for this subject. The idea is that students can be pushed on once they are confident with simple expanding and simplifying – if I get through both of these in one lesson with my year 10s I’ll be a happy … Read more
