GCSE 9-1 Foundation – ALGEBRA
Please visit this post -> HERE for an updated version of all the questions on the foundation tier. Thanks
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Numeracy Across the Curriculum
It’s the start of another new half term tomorrow and having just arrived back from Hong Kong and China I’m not quite sure what time of the day it is but am raring to go feeling chilled out and very relaxed. I’ve come to the conclusion that my “to-do” list will always be “chocker-block” and … Read more
Keeping time …
Just a thought … yesterday was the first of our Saturday school sessions. As the first one, my plan was to cover 3 topics where I did a worked example on the board with them and then they got to work on similar problems themselves – nothing too exciting but it’s a way of setting … Read more
Sunday morning blog …
I miss blogging but I’ve been so busy for the last few weeks that I just haven’t had the time to do it as often as I like – I have so many half-written blog posts that a couple of them are no longer relevant and the moment has passed when I get to relook … Read more
Get cape …
Twelve months ago we were just coming up the end of our first half term at a new school and I’ve been thinking about how easy it has been to forget how tough it all was and was saddened the other evening to see a couple of tweets from teachers asking about when they could … Read more
More worked solutions
Last month Edexcel released their second set of specimen papers and in between other things when I’ve wanted to switch off I’ve been doing some maths and putting together worked solutions. I’ve put the solutions (along with previous solutions and copies of all the SAMs and specimens published to date) in the extras tab online … Read more
The Society of Young Mathematicians
If you’re looking for a way to offer some extra-curricular enrichment for those students already interested in Maths – or even show other students exactly what is possible in the field of Mathematics – have you thought about promoting the Society of Young Mathematicians (SYMS) ? How about putting a bit in your next school … Read more
Stronger Together
Last night I had a twitter conversation about the new GCSE and it’s really resonated with me because I’ve spent the last couple of nights thinking about how getting through the sheer content of the scheme of work is taking loads of time. Actually it’s not that there is so much “more” content per se, … Read more
Bread and Butter 9-1
With our year 9 and 10 this year we are following the Edexcel 2 and 3 year schemes work (it seemed as good a place as any and I know the work that has gone into checking/double checking & triple checking it by the maths team – the format is also something we are used … Read more
Sunday morning quickie
Not “that” kind of quickie. Mucky minds people! This is a quick blog post as it doesn’t really fit into any of the other three posts that I currently have word documents open for … expect a deluge later today. I’ve also had a nightmare with a memory stick that means I’ve lost a load of … Read more
