Best Guess Paper 2014
THIS IS FROM 2014 AND NOT THE MOST RECENT BEST GUESS PAPER –
June 2014
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 […]
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 […]
Jeez Louise!
At the back end of 2013 the government published their proposed programmes of study for both KS3 and KS4 Maths, and then subsequently opened a consultation to these proposals which closed […]
I never thought…
In my adult working life of a little over 22 years (I had part-time bar/waitressing jobs whilst at school/university but am not including those!) I have had 5 jobs and so […]
Mental Maths #2
Once again some of our resources have been featured in the Guardian “how to teach” series, this time about mental maths (link here: How to teach: Mental Maths)
