Matt Woodfine has been busy with his brilliant Maths White Board site; you can now upload and annotate pdf files which is so useful. I find this works very well indeed; pens work well, and we can also use a protractor and compass.
If you have not used Maths White Board much and want more information, Matt Woodfine advised trying his “2 min Tuesday” videos for ideas on which features you would like to implement first. Main Tutorial video.
Does anyone recall Boris Johnson’s 2004 statement, made during the BBC’s light-hearted news quiz show Have I Got News for You, “I could not fail to disagree with you less.” ? I remember hearing it on the radio whilst driving to school and correctly predicting it would turn up in a D2 logic question on an MEI A Level Further Maths paper!
MEI Decision Maths 2 June 2008
From Cabri, their new Geometry app is available for Windows and OSX, a Primary version is also available. Check the Cabri Express Guide to get started.
I have been adding further resources to GCSE Revision 2023, the latest additions come from BBC Bitesize and from Dave Taylor:
On BBC Bitesize you will find GCSE Maths – exam practice, 5 quizzes of 10 questions each, with fully worked solutions.
Also from Bitesize, try these GCSE maths – quick-fire quizzes, each quiz has 10 quick-fire questions that should take approximately 5-10 minutes to complete. You can take the quiz again and answer a new set of questions. Answers are all explained.
The new Casio Calculators are appearing, here’s Jack Brown’s first look at the Casio FX-991CW.
And from an absolute favourite Calculator guide author, The Calculator Guide, Inequalities On A Number Line On A Casio fx-83GTCW | fx-85GTCW. I am looking forward to more from the Calculator Guide, keep an eye on these playlists on The Calculator Guide YouTube Channel.
The word problems are available on All About Maths. The booklets have been designed by shadowing past exam questions to help students gain ample practice in answering such questions. Two levels of difficulty are available: basic and multi-step. For students who need a little extra support, note the booklets with ‘starter advice’ which could be useful to provide scaffolding.
AQA’ s all about Maths is a resource site for teachers with numerous excellent resources. The resources are for teachers who offer, or are considering offering AQA maths qualifications; see How to get access to AQA All About Maths and register here.
From NCETM, have a look at these new resources on Algebraic Thinking.
New Algebraic Thinking resources now available! Developed by teachers for teachers. ✔️ PPTs and notes for teaching algebra at KS3 ✔️ Use for collaborative planning and in lessons ✔️ Five different topics to explore Download them now https://t.co/Mtsl5zh1ntpic.twitter.com/qwVihe9dqv
These materials for exploring algebra with KS3 students are all freely available to download from the NCETM website. The 6 resources include PowerPoint slides and very helpful notes for teachers including the rationale behind each topic, useful language for teachers to model, how to address misconceptions, and how the topic might be explored in the context of KS2 to KS3 transition..
NCETM Balance Beam
The notes suggest that this Checkpoint activity could be used to introduce the Balance Beaam resource. A reminder that you can find all the Checkpoint activities on the NCETM webste.
NCETM Checkpoint Activity
From the brilliant Nathan Day Calculate Cleverly, Trigonometry, and Mathematical Quotations :
Inspired by @boss_maths, 'Calculate Cleverly' is making a return to my Year 10 starters!
This worked well and we could have discussed all lesson. I love how some students quickly spotted that some values of b wouldn't give solutions. Some said that some statements were contradictory so if one was true the other wasn't. They didn't like wording for Ash. https://t.co/wg2NvRdihE
Note the latest addition – Ultimate Revision, currently available for Foundation GCSE (Higher to follow in April), this incredible resource includes a video and accompanying booklet (answers also available) with 400 questions!
Corbett Maths – A Bit of Everything practice papers
On Corbett Maths choose your examination board from GCSE Maths – Summer 2023 and you will also find Revision checklists, a collection of Practice Papers, and A Bit of Everything Papers; the papers with questions provide very comprehensive syllabus coverage! Each paper includes a contents list with the relevant teaching video.
CorbettMaths revision checklistMr Neill
From Mr Neill, a brilliant resource, all Edexcel, AQA and OCR GCSE maths questions categorised by topic with answers from June 2017 to Nov 2021 (9-1), available all on pdf, PowerPoint or Promethean.
On ExamQ from Mr Watts you can quickly search for Edexcel Maths GCSE and A-Level exam questions. You can choose from GCSE Foundation or Higher, AS or A level, you can also select by exam series, paper, area and topic.
The interface is very clear indeed, easily display the questions or mark schemes.
On Mr Morely Maths you will find a wonderful collection of GCSE resources, including Video tutorials, worksheets to match, exam question packs with mark schemes, starters, full lessons, revision guides, CPD sessions and methods road maps.
Mr Morley Maths Revision Work Books
Note the latest resources – Revision Work Books. These booklets contain at least one past paper question on every topic split into grades 1-3, 4-5 and 6-9. Each has a contents page with QR code links to relevant videos.
I do like these excellent revision guides – notes jotters to accompany the videos.
Mr Morely Maths
From White Rose Maths, GCSE Practice Papers (scroll down) for AQA, Edexcel and OCR. Whilst based on the November and June 2022 advance information these papers and mark schemes for all three boards and also the excellent pre-exam workshops provide very useful revision resources.
White Rose MathsThird Space Learning
From Third Space Learning, papers for AQA and Edexcel have been created for 2023 (OCR to follow).
1st Class Maths
On 1st Class Maths, papers and video solutions were created based on the advance information for Edexcel and AQA.
On BBC Bitesize you will find GCSE Maths – exam practice, 5 quizzes of 10 questions each, with fully worked solutions.
Also from Bitesize, try these GCSE maths – quick-fire quizzes, each quiz has 10 quick-fire questions that should take approximately 5-10 minutes to complete. You can take the quiz again and answer a new set of questions. Answers are all explained.
This Custom Starter from Transum, is one I have featured before, it allows teachers to select the number of questions and the topics to include; scroll down the page and choose the topics you want from the Concept Selection. It is possible to save a particular selection of topics as the URL for your selection will be generated. It is also possible to drag the panels so your questions are displayed in the desired order. The beginning of a lesson can be an ideal time to review previous learning.
On the subject of starters – short questions can make ideal revision starters – a reminder of some great resources:
Transum has an extensive library of self-checking exercises, so we could easily provide examples on inequalities for example. On Transum, there are several ways to search for resources, for example, try:
On TES, from SNO, this Excel spreadsheet generates an endless supply of 1 mark questions with the option to display the answers, making an ideal starter. Two versions are available, you can choose 5 or 10 questions to display.
We start every foundation lesson with a booklet of ten 1&2 mark questions, aimed at repetition. Builds up in difficulty in both calc & non-calc topics. 80 pages worth. Seems to help reduce errors at the start of papers. Feel free to take a look. https://t.co/qdPT8P7UDupic.twitter.com/v9U2fwyegM— Mr Kingsley (@KingsleyMaths) February 12, 2021
Edexcel’s Practice Papers include freely available Foundation Tier one mark questions. There are calculator and non-calculator paper questions and mark schemes from June 2017 through to June 2019 (non-calculator) and to November 2019 for the calculator questions.
We also have:
*BRAND NEW* #GCSE#maths One Marker Starters! Using the familiar 1-mark questions from the start of the foundation papers. Ideal to build confidence for your Grade 1-3 students to give them the best start to their exams. Solutions are also available! https://t.co/0IDb5a6yXgpic.twitter.com/96j055bkKe
I do like Wayne Chadburn’s monthly calendars that provide regular, varied practice – a little bit of maths each day. Calendars for the 2022-23 academic year are available here. Note the three versions including crossover questions (these appear on both Foundation and Higher papers so great practice for the more challenging Foundation questions), Foundation, Foundation plus and Higher; answers are provided.
From Jake Gordon, try his Skills grid creator– customise exactly as you want from 90 skills, and answers are included.
Jake Gordon – Skills Grid CreatorJake Gordon – Skills Grid Creator
On Jonathan Hall’s Test Maker on MathsBot we could create a test to test many of these skills. Choose the skills you want from the menu, the number of questions, and the initial and final difficulty of the questions on a scale of 1 to 10, also note the Paired Solutions option to show one example with an answer then one to try. An Answer Key is provided for any test you create.
MathsBot – Test Maker
We could also use the many brilliant GCSE resources from MathsBot.
Maths White Board – Revision Boards
See on Maths White Board: Revision Board – generate a starter based on the Advance Information
Interactive Maths Generators – Dan Rodriguez-Clark
On Interactive Maths Generators from Dan Rodriguez-Clark (@InteractMaths), design your own sets of questions on more than 50 maths topics for your students to practice a variety of skills. There are many customisation options, generally as well as for individual topics. Full instructions are on Dan’s site.
Inspired by Jonathan Hall’s (@StudyMaths) excellent session on Completion Tables at Maths Conf31, I have been reminding myself of all the excellent fill in the blanks type resources available and have updated my original post on this. Now available as a page, Fill in the blanks can be found as part of the Problems & Activities Collection. Several new activities have been added to the original.
Trigonometry (Area) – Fill In The Blanks, Andy Lutwyche
There is also a good deal of evidence that the use of worked examples can be helpful in introducing new ideas (Booth et al., 2017; Sweller et al., 2019). Particularly effective are ‘completion problems’ where students are given partial solutions and required to complete them. These can help students to focus on the examples but also manage the difficulty level while retaining authentic tasks
Great Teaching Toolkit – Evidence Review, June 2020 Rob Coe, C.J. Rauch, Stuart Kime, Dan Singleton
Check the galleries here for images of some of these great resources, all the details are available on the page Fill in the blanks…
Andy Lutwyche
Ratio and Proportion, Andy Lutwyche
Andy Lutwyche
Quadratic Formula, Andy Lutwyche
Dr Austin Maths
TickTockMaths – Rationalising the denominator
Starting Points Maths, prime factorisation
Starting Points Maths, Collecting like terms
Access Maths, Algebra
Purposeful Maths, Expanding double brackets
Purposeful Maths, Completing the square
Distributive Property, Open Middle
Rob Southern, Coordinate Geometrye
Coordinate Geometry Table, Transum, Adapted with permission from a learning resource created by Rob Southern @mrsouthernmaths.
March 8th 2023 is International Women’s Day. We’ll start with an image I have shared before that I think still says it all! Thank you, Steve Lomax (Photo courtesy of the wonderful children of Mansfield Green E-ACT Primary, @mgeact@EducationEACT)who shared this wonderful response to the task ‘Describe a mathematician’…
From Lucy Rycroft-Smith, see this wonderful collection of books about Maths by women. Lucy has chosen 13 books, I like the way she has categorised the books, a book for the artist, for the rebel…. Brilliant – I can see some in there I want!
Note too the 30-minute presentation, Why Study Maths, for students and parents/carers which is about the importance of studying maths post-GCSE. It outlines the options available and provides compelling reasons for choosing to take an advanced maths qualification. Slides and speaker notes are available to download. These resources could be an excellent way of helping Mathematics Departments link curriculum learning to Careers, for all students, helping to meet the Gatsby Benchmark on this.
ThoughtCo: Women in Mathematics Historyfrom Hypatia of Alexandria (355 or 370 – 415) to Amalie ‘Emmy’ Noether (1882-1935)Lewis, Jone Johnson. “Women in Mathematics History.” ThoughtCo, Feb. 11, 2020.
