With the end of term approaching, or almost here, depending on your school, I thought it would be helpful to check and write any necessary updates for these pages.
OCR, Bridging the Gap – A Student Guide
GCSE to A Level Transition includes many useful resources for students who have completed GCSE Maths and will go on to take A Level Mathematics.
Oxford University Mathematics Aptitude Test, 2007, Q1D
University Admissions Tests, provides resources to help students prepare for various admissions tests for university. Such resources provide challenging questions for students anywhere studying Mathematics beyond age 16.
Workers of Zen
…and if you are looking for some end-of-term activities, this collection includes many ideas.
Calculator Crunch is designed to provide extra practice for Year 6 and 7 pupils in key areas of the maths curriculum. For Year 6 pupils the resources help to develop confidence with calculators in preparation for secondary school maths.
Calculator Crunch 2024 runs from 24 to 28 June. Each morning, a new challenge involving the use of a basic or scientific will be released.
Claire Clay has created some really clear resources on using a calculator. See her site, Clay’s Contemplations, for her blog posts and calculator resources. Her calculator cards are very attractively presented and easy to follow.
She has also created a PowerPoint to show the essential calculator buttons for both the fx-83GT X and fx-83GT.
The Calculator Guide has very helpful videos for the new Casio fx-991CW Classwiz Calculator. See Casio ClassWiz 2023 for further information on the new Casio calculators.
Dr Frost Maths
On Dr Frost Maths, under Tools, see Virtual Calculators; this collection includes lesson resources.
A resource I have used a great deal for solving quadratic equations using the formula is this calculator from Math Warehouse, which clearly shows how to use the quadratic formula. Further online calculators can be found on these pages.
This practice paper has been added to the Level 2 Further Maths page. The page includes some practice papers created last year, 2023, which still provide useful practice questions. Note that there are Paper 2 Practice Papers which we created following 2023 Paper 1.
Keep an eye on Dr Tom Bennison’s Exam 2024 resources, a practice paper for AQA Level 2 Further Maths will be added Monday 10th pm with solutions in the evening. Warmup grids will be added Tuesday morning.
Tuesday, June 11th
A Level Maths, Paper 2
Dale Chapman – Edexcel Maths Pure 2 practice paper
For Edexcel A Level, Dale Chapman has created a practice paper for Edexcel maths pure paper 2. Dale has used questions from the International A Level – a great idea as students are unlikely to have seen them before. A mark scheme is at the end of the document. Dale has provided this Dropbox link.
Elliott Henchy has created this revision list for Edexcel Pure Paper 2based on topics not assessed in Paper 1. As Elliott has said, these are simply his own predictions and are just a guide for revision. Topics can be assessed twice, so there are things that may reappear on Paper 2.
The GCSE Paper 3 post has had several updates this week; a massive thank you to all the teachers for sharing their resources.
For example, for GCSE we have:
Jo Morgan – revision mat
Jo Morgan has shared a link to an Edexcel Foundation revision mat a teacher has created from a Foundation revision mat of hers. The teacher edited the resource to remove topics that came up on Papers 1 and 2. With 32 questions followed by the answers, this is a great revision resource for Foundation students.
Dale Chapman – Edexcel Maths Pure 2 practice paper
For A Level, Dale Chapman has created a practice paper for Edexcel maths pure paper 2. Dale has used questions from the International A Level – a great idea, as students are unlikely to have seen them before. A mark scheme is at the end of the document. Dale has provided this Dropbox link.
