I can’t let this pass without comment … the DFE need to sort this out … it’s a fecking mess !! Let me remind you that in March Justine Greening wrote to the Education Select Committee (letter -> here ) and in this she states “Where employers, FE providers and universities currently accept a grade C we … Read more
Back in January I wrote (in this post-> here ) about how comparability across tiers was going to be ensured by the exam boards and Ofqual. I included some analysis about the percentage of marks available on the “crossover” topics for Edexcel, AQA and OCR; I also went off on a tangent about the why … Read more
So paper 3 is done and dusted. ‘Tis done. ‘Tis finished. At just after 10:30 am this morning I could almost feel maths teachers everywhere breathing a massive sigh of relief. (I promise I will write up my experience of sitting the exam as an external candidate but time … you know! .. time … … Read more
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
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
IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SUPPORT FOR THE 2018 PAPERS – CHECK THIS POST -> HERE EDIT: F YOU ARE LOOKING FOR SOME PRACTICE PAPERS BETWEN PAPER 2 AND PAPER 3 …YOU MAY WANT TO CHECK OUT THIS POST I bet that blog title got your attention … you may well be disappointed! We aren’t … Read more
Over the last couple of years I’ve written a couple of blog posts that I end up referring people to when faced with queries just to save myself repeating myself and this is one of them .. to be honest this one has been in my draft folder and I’m trying to edit and then publish it after … Read more
For those of you that have been around a bit … (I mean teaching for a while and I’m not insinuating anything else 😉 !!) you will have taught these before. They’re a bit of a hokey-cokey topic – one minute they’re in the formal programme of study as dictated by the DFE then they’re out … Read more
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
For the last couple of years Graham (Cumming .. of course!) has been sending out some additional reminders for both students and teachers a few weeks before the exams. This year has been no different and he has kindly given me permission to share on here too (to which I’ve added a little extra that you … Read more
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