Apr 21 2024

Examination Revision Resources

Swinton Maths

On Swinton Maths, you can some very useful recently created A Level Further Maths practice papers and full solutions for Core Pure 1, Core Pure 2, and Further Mechanics 1.

On Dr Oliver Mathematics, you will find many excellent examples and very clear worked solutions to examination questions for Edexcel GCSE Mathematics, A Level and Further Maths, AQA Level 2 Further Mathematics, and SQA. Also, note the Can You Do This (GCSE)? and Can You Do This (A Level)? sections. There are some great questions in these sections. The A Level Can You Do This section includes Maths and Further Maths examples.

On the subject of AQA Level 2 Furter Maths, Dr Oliver’s site is included in this AQA Level 2 Further Math collection. The collection includes practice papers created in 2023

Pearson has very helpfully created this post for Maths GCSE aimed at students. Links to revision resources for students are provided, the resources include revision checklists, exam tips, YouTube videos on using a calculator and also key topics. A set of posters is provided, including command words.

See also:

Apr 12 2024

Mathematical Miscellany #97

A mathematics resources compilation.

Wayne Chadburn – revision calendars

For regular varied daily practice, Wayne Chadburn has uploaded the final instalments of his revision calendars for this academic year – April & May. Calendars are available for Foundation and Higher, all have solutions.

From Jenna Sanderson on TES: GCSE Revision – Essential Facts and Formulae Fill in the Gaps Recall Tasks Higher and Foundation.

Fill in the blanks type exercises can make excellent revision; for further such resources, see this this Fill in blanks collection.

On the subject of filling in the blanks – try Simplifying Surds Using Prime Factors – Fill In The Blanks from Andy Lutwyche, one of his recently added resources. The set of 11 questions with solutions includes 5 challenge questions where the surds are only partially simplified.

For Core Maths, Dave Gale is adding revision resources (with solutions) to his collection. These revision resources are for AQA paper 1. I like the style of these revision sheets, which all have four sections: Memory, Numerical Data, Graphical Data, and Finance.

See also – this lovely collection of 2024 resources to familiarise students with AQA preliminary materials. Exam-style questions with a marking guide are included.

Apr 7 2024

Mathematical Miscellany #96

A mathematics resources compilation.

Dr Austin Maths – Revision Grids

Amanda Austin has added further Revision Grids (3rd April) to her brilliant resource collection. All her revision resources are available from the Revision section of Dr Austin Maths.

These revision grids are included in the GCSE 2024 revision collection.

(For more on Circle Theorems, including GeoGebra applets – scroll down a little on this Geometry page,)

From The Chalkface, this index, which also gives the main topics assessed for Edexcel Maths and Further Maths A Level, up to 2023, is very useful; the index includes a description of each question. We can also see a table showing question frequency. Note that many questions involve multiple topics – see the notes on The Chalkface spreadsheet.

It’s great to see the division symbol is now supported by Graspable Math; try it out on this canvas by Erik Weitnauer.

This will be really useful when looking at the order of operations with younger students and also for the division of fractions.

Remember that we have the option (in settings) to choose how we want to display the multiplication symbol.

For more on Graspable Math, see this series of pages.

Try ‘Random Acts of Maths’ from Maths Ed Ideas, which has over 300 “pocket-sized problems, teasers, curios, provocations, inspirations, etc.”

In Mathematical Miscellany #95, I featured Matt Woodfine’s addition to Maths Whiteboard which enables us to see the meanings of terms used. I have now included this in the Vocabulary collection.

Edexcel – Teacher’s Guide to Command Words
Maths White Board

Learn more about manual excerpts(opens in a new tab)

This is a great feature on Maths White Board – choose any Model it board and you can see the meanings of terms used; in this example we can look at the meaning of simplify or expression.

Mar 21 2024

Easter 2024

If you teach GCSE Maths students, you may well be thinking about Easter revision. The GCSE 2024 collection has been regularly updated. The latest addition comes from Mr Morley Maths whose site was already included in the collection. Richard Morley has now added GCSE 2024 resources.

Mr Morley Maths – Summer 2024 Revision checklist
Mr Morley Maths revision work book for Paper 1 

Added for 2024 to Mr Morley Maths, see Summer 2024 GCSE Resources which are specifically related to the 2024 GCSE (Edexcel). Initially, you can find a revision work book for Paper 1 with suggested topics to revise and full revison checklist for all 3 papers. 

The site will be updated after Paper 1 has been sat, with a range of resources to help guide you towards topics which Richard Morely thinks are most likely to come up on Paper 2 and 3.

If you are looking for Easter Maths resources for the last lesson of the term, this page, Mathematics for Easter, has a collection of resources with an Easter theme.

Teachit Maths – Easter Bunny Race
Mar 15 2024

Mathematical Miscellany #95

A mathematics resources compilation.

Loughborough Department of Mathematics Education

This short video introduces the features of the LUMEN Curriculum. Access the free curriculum resources from Wednesday, 20th March. You can learn more about the Lumen Curriculum which has been designed from these articles on the development of the curriculum; the article collection includes academic papers, shorter articles, and blog posts.

“The resources are informed by the best-available research across mathematics education, cognitive science and educational design.”

Loughborough Department of Mathematics Education – Lumen Curriculum Resources
Lumun Curriculum example

In a recent post, I mentioned the mapping documents linking curriculum content to activities on Transum Mathematics including the recently added Functional Skills document.

Reading the March 2024 Transum newsletter, we see that new Functional Skills resources are being added to the site.

As always several new resources have been added; I do like StatGrid Challenge illustrated here. We have lovely gentle start with Level 1….

Transum Mathematics

GCSE Revision 2024

1st Class Maths – Practice papers 2024 – estimated publication dates.

I keep updating this image on GCSE Revision 2024 because the brilliant 1st Class Maths has now completed the Edexcel and AQA practice papers for Higher and Foundation tiers for Paper 1; the questions are all original and based on high-frequency paper 1 topics.

Maths White Board – Formula sheet familiarisation

Knowledge Organisers

Mrs D Maths – Knowledge Organisers

My Knowledge Organisers collection includes a wonderful A Level collection from MrsDMaths; she has now made a start on the Year 1 content with Algebraic Expressions and Quadratics.

Vocabulary – Maths White Board

Maths White Board

Learn more about manual excerpts(opens in a new tab)

This is a great feature on Maths White Board – choose any Model it board and you can see the meanings of terms used; in this example we can look at the meaning of simplify or expression.

For further vocabulary resources, see the post Literacy Skills in Mathematics.

Edexcel – Teacher’s Guide to Command Words