I’m writing this as a way to reflect so you may want to just pass on by … there’ll probably be nothing worth reading if I’m honest as I’m just going to freestyle and write whatever springs to mind so strap yourself in. A few weeks ago I was discussing how departments can’t just keep … Read more
Here you go … calendar for February 2018: Monthly Maths – February 2018 The original post containing the sheet for January 2018 can be found (here) and the solutions (for January 2018) are available here – >Monthly Maths January 2018 – Solutions… I haven’t checked them though!!! I have already uploaded to JustMaths Online though!
This is gonna be quick … I promise! But thought I’d share … I see part of my job in year 7 is to get students comfortable just playing around with numbers. Yes, I want there to be no fear about making mistakes but I also want students to be numerate and as I say … Read more
This is the second post looking at the percentage of questions that were on both tiers in the first live sitting of the exam – part 1 included the stats from Pearson/Edexcels papers and this one is for OCR. As previously, I should remind you that “at least 20%” on both tiers must be from … Read more
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
The marvellous Emma Bell has put together some practice questions for the final Edexcel 1MA0 paper EVER! ** sniffs back a tear** and she has agreed that it was ok to share here for those of you looking for some extra practice questions for students to do over the next 13 days … HIGHER TIER … Read more
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