I know! I know! I know! I am meant to be on holiday but it takes me a couple of days to wind down … and the pressure of exams looming for year 11’s never seems to go away even when away from school I find myself thinking about what else we could be doing! … Read more
This morning I’ve finished marking my year 11 mocks (well! I say finished … I mean I’ve marked the non calculator paper … the 2nd paper isn’t until Monday) and whilst overall they are pretty good, I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to do some deliberate practice with them to keep the “bread and butter” topics fresh … Read more
To ensure there is a balance between personal and “maths stuff” .. I’ve had time this week to make the attached, which is another revision connect 4.
I found a past exam question that was worth a whopping 7 marks in relation to exchange rates (unlike the usual 3 to 4 marks) and the context was mind blowing! Underneath it all though, the maths wasn’t that difficult and the story is similar, despite being much “wordier”, to ones that I’ve seen in questions by most … Read more
Less than a month ago, we started to tweet exam questions and answers as a way to get some of our harder to reach students to revise and about 2 weeks ago details of the twitter account were published on this blog. Today we reached a milestone of 100 followers (the 100th follower was @IAPSmaths) … Read more
Getting some of our students to revise is ridiculously difficult. We provide them with so many different resources and I’d like to think that we signpost what they need to do, pretty well. Its tough when there is a long run until the next exam session – there seems to be no sense of urgency in some … Read more
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