Short and sweet … Calender for Feb can be found here -> Monthly Maths – February 2017 NOTE: I’ll update this post with the solutions for January up tomorrow as I’m a world away from home at the minute – somewhere up north!! Update: Jan Solutions can be found here -> Monthly Maths – January … Read more
I’m just gonna say it … I think I need to get a life! I’ve been doing some work following the letter I’ve had from Ofqual in response to my own letter to them where I raised the matter of how comparability across tiers was being ensured. You can see from the below extract Ofqual … Read more
Occasionally I open up the blog to others to write a post or two … (don’t worry Seager isn’t getting another chance … EVER!). Some of the motives for doing this stem from being able to offer a different view on life at the coalface but also because I find other people’s views fascinating and … Read more
I did mean to get these posted last week but sometimes forget how manic the end of term is … just starting to chill out – it’s only taken 4 days! The file for the January maths calendar and also solutions for the December one can be found below: January 2017 -> Monthly Maths – … Read more
To avoid raising my blood pressure every time someone posts something about grading that isn’t right I thought I’d collate how it is actually going to work in one post and leave it pinned to the top of the blog so that I can keep referring people to it. I wish we could stop playing … Read more
The week before last, Ofqual published another consultation on grading (I know!! 7 months to go!!) which on the face of it looks like they’re tidying up the “subject level conditions and requirements for mathematics” and in my opinion, in the main, it is just that. To be honest there is one thing in it … Read more
The file for the December maths calendar and also solutions for November one can be found below and to prove I’m not an ogre I’ve put Christmas day down as a day “off”: December -> Monthly Maths – December November Solutions -> November – SOLUTIONS
For one reason or another myself and Seager are not doing any collaborative network meetings next week but don’t be thinking that means I’ll be sat drinking tea and getting my nails done! Instead the maths team at Edexcel have arranged for us to do some additional support sessions that may or may not be … Read more
I’ve been a little quiet on the “teaching” blog front recently because we’re all so pre-occupied with the new GCSE. I am sooooo looking forward to when it is no longer “new” and we, as teachers get more of a grip on what a grade 5 etc looks and feels like. It is so very … Read more
This idea came out of our last Edexcel network meeting at Alcester whereby we discussed the impossible task of allocating grades given that none of the exam boards are able to give the slightest guidance. After a discussion we agreed that it would be useful to share anonymous student marks for the secure mocks to … Read more
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