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 checklistMr 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.
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.
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.
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.
March 8th 2024 is International Women’s Day. We’ll start with an image from a few years back that have shared before but I think still says it all! Thank you, Steve Lomax – Photo courtesy of the wonderful children of Mansfield Green E-ACT Primary, who shared this wonderful response to the task ‘Describe a mathematician’…
Some useful references on women in Mathematics:
Third Space Learning – 9 famous female mathematicians and their impact – Sophie Bartlet
WISE – whose purpose is to “Enable and promote the participation, contribution and success of women in the UK STEM workforce.”
Girls Who Code is an international non-profit organisation “working to close the gender gap in technology by teaching computer science, bravery, and sisterhood”.
Stemettes is an award-winning social enterprise working to inspire and support girls, young women and non-binary people in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths) careers.
Note also 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.
From Lucy Rycroft-Smith back in 2020, see this wonderful collection of books about Maths by women. Lucy chose 13 books, I like the way she has categorised the books, a book for the artist, for the rebel…. Brilliant.
On the subject of books – I do like Libby Jackson’s “A Galaxy of Her Own” aimed at students in Years 1 to 9, which includes fifty stories of inspirational women in space.
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.
National Careers Week is a one-week celebration of careers guidance and free resources in education across the UK and runs from 4th – 9th March. Exploring the site you will find free resources including activities, worksheets, and information about the 2024 Virtual Careers Fair which will go live on day 1 of Careers Week. No registration is required, no data is collected from students and there are many opportunities for students to explore.
This provides an ideal opportunity for promoting careers information in schools.
The aim is to make sure that all young people in secondary school get a programme of advice and guidance. It is recommended that schools should use the Gatsby Charitable Foundation’s Benchmarks to develop and improve their careers provision.
See the Gatsby site and also the very helpful Gatsby Benchmark Toolkit from The Careers and Enterprise Company, note in particular, benchmark 4,
4. Linking curriculum learning to careers
All teachers should link curriculum learning with careers. For example, STEM subject teachers should highlight the relevance of STEM subjects for a wide range of future career paths.
We are fortunate in Mathematics to have the wonderful Maths Careers site with its extensive collection of resources for students from ages 11 to adult. Three sections by age on careers are available: 11-16, 16-19, and 19+.
From amsp, Where maths meets the world of work. The AMSP is working on videos, which showcase the maths in different careers; each video is paired with a resource for the classroom or for use online, so students can get a real taste of what the job may entail. Looking at the first video ‘Try being a Data Detective’ there are versions of each resource available for students of different ages. Desmos Classroom activitiesare available for each version.
From amsp, see Supporting your students’ transition to Advanced Maths, their Maths: Opening the door to your futureleaflet explores the post-16 maths qualifications available to students, to help them decide which one is best. Note also 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.
A wealth of free resources are available on Integral, see TheFMSP Legacy Resources Archive. Access is free via Guest Access.
Forum Case Studies, FORUM has published many case studies about employer-linked curriculum projects.
