Question Level Analysis Workbooks for June 2017 papers

As usual I’m sharing excel workbooks that you can use to analyse your cohort level data from Edexcels ResultsPlus … unfortunately these ones don’t have the “multiprint” option (…yet! … I’m working on it!) but I’ve put a blank version in the workbook too as we’ve always printed the blank versions off and got students … Read more

Surface Area and Volume Revision

Looking for something for that last minute revision lesson? Yeah .. me too! Having emailed out the bumper papers to parents, I put the mark-schemes on our VLE and then as a catch-all for the students that me and Seager teach, I ran around like a mad-woman during period 5 giving them printed copies too! And today … Read more

Still not a “predicted paper”

PLEASE NOTE THESE WERE FOR SUMMER 2017 … I WILL POST THE “BETWEEN PAPERS” PRACTICE PAPERS FOR 2018 AFTER PAPER 1 AND ALSO AFTER PAPER 2. Now that paper 2 has been and gone, we’ve already moved onto thinking about paper 3 and like the previous practice papers we produced .. these are not “best … 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 9-1 New content – Product rule for counting

I’ve been thinking about some of the new content in the GCSE and wanted to delve a bit deeper into some of the topics – not only to make sure that my understanding of the “learning objectives” are correct but if I’m honest I also think I have a hang up about subject knowledge, because … Read more

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