Mathematics in Psychology

You can also find these skills on the exam board websites, see AQA for example who state that “overall, at least 10% of the marks in assessments for Psychology will require the use of mathematical skills. These skills will be applied in the context of A-level Psychology and will be at least the standard of higher tier GCSE mathematics.”

Exam Board Teaching Resources

OCR student workbook
OCR Teaching Activities

The Association for the Teaching of Psychology has collaborated with the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme [AMSP] to support teachers of Psychology in their teaching of the maths and statistics requirements of the psychology specifications and provide free CPD and resources.

Catherine Van Saarloos – Desmos Activities for Psychology

Catherine Van Saarloos has created online resources for lessons on data collection and for the delivery of the mathematical requirements of Psychology courses. Here you will find a collection of Desmos activities.

Deb Gajic has created How to guides for non-parametric inferential statistical tests.

This information has been added to the UK Assessment series of pages where you can also find Mathematics for Science.

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