Below you will find out “Best guess” papers for the higher and foundation tiers for the LINEAR Edexcel Mathematics GCSE paper 2 after half term. Just to reiterate what I’ve put on the front page of the paper, specifically the Higher tier – the paper is made up of topics that we believe are … Read more
To be honest I think last night/this morning was the MOST NERVOUS I have EVER been before an exam – for reasons unknown to me!. Overall I felt that paper 1 was fair – our “super group” in the main felt that they we well prepared and it gave them a great deal of confidence … Read more
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how to manage student talking when they are working – I suppose it’s a result of my quite laid back attitude that I have to work hard at bringing students back on task with a certain group. Most of the time this group are talking about the work … Read more
I’ve written about the delights you’ll find in the cabinets on Edexcel’s emporium before and recently Graham (weird how I only need to mention “Graham” and everyone knows who I mean!!) emailed out some new booklets that have been made for “DIY type” questions and also one which I know our students have struggled to … Read more
Recently I’ve approached my teaching with a renewed focus – part of this stems from the fact that the teaching is the part of the job I really love. The main driver though is a quest to understand common misconceptions as I’ve been thinking about where they fit in my chain of thought when it … Read more
I’ve been thinking a lot about misconceptions recently and also revisited a couple of old posts looking for stuff to use for revision when I came across my revision mat idea ( HERE ) that was produced using ideas that were “twitter-sourced” and it has got me thinking. I really want to get students exploring ways in … Read more
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