…from Jonny Griffiths (I just had to use his words for that title!)
A massive thank you from teachers everywhere, Jonny, for your brilliant resources. I have used these for years and love them.

Download a free PDF copy: www.risps.co.uk, where you can also download all the new files also. Note the Word version, which you could edit if you wish.

As a backup, Jonny has also placed this on Payhip, where it can be downloaded for free.

This update to Jonny’s 40 investigative tasks for A Level is a major revision. Tasks have been made even clearer, errors corrected, and GeoGebra and Excel files added. Navigation is excellent – all from the very clear Contents list.

For each task, you will find lovely, clear teachers’ notes and references to any files available.

More fantastic resources from Jonny Griffiths are available on his website.
I shall be enjoying reading this over Ch-risp-mas!

With GCSE Papers 1 and 2 now complete, only Paper 3 remains. For paper 3, we have key topics suggested by 1st Class Maths. We also have a ‘best guess’ practice paper for Paper 3 from Hannah Kettle.

Students could also use questions for their chosen topics from Corbett Maths and/or 1st Class Maths. Links are provided below.

On 1st Class Maths, we can find November 2025 Key Topics. Currently available are suggested key topics to prioritise for revision for Edexcel and AQA Foundation and Higher Paper 3. Star ratings indicate how likely the author believes the topic is to appear in Paper 3.

Many helpful revision resources are available.

On Corbett Maths, try the Ultimate GCSE Revision Videos; use the GCSE Revision resources available for Edexcel, OCR, AQA, and CCEA, 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.

On 1st Class Maths, the Edexcel Revision page offers questions and solutions by topic and difficulty, note the final column in the table which shows the Edexcel past series percentage correct up to and including the November 2024 exams. The Ultimate Revision Booklets for Foundation (114 questions) and Higher (106 questions) each include one question per topic, with accompanying video solutions.

Today, October 2nd, is National Poetry Day in the UK. A look at some mathematical poems…

From 3Blue1Brown- Math Poetry. I love the problem in that first poem, Moser’s Circle Problem. It is a problem I have used with many classes – a brilliant ‘cautionary tale’ for students.

The problem is illustrated here on Desmos.

We could try this Polygon riddle from Transum Mathematics, one of a collection of Maths Poems on Transum.

From Harry Baker – Poet and Mathematician – his video discusses his own journey from Maths to Poetry and the links between Maths and Poetry. The video includes two of his poems at times 3:50, 59 on primes, and 7:40, a puzzle – an A-Z of Time and Space.

See also – Math Poetry, from Oliver Knill, Harvard, and for younger students, Best Math Poems for Elementary School Students from We are teachers.

Some useful posts and pages for the start of term…

The menu on the right-hand side features some posts which may be helpful.

Featured Posts

• GCSE to A Level Transition
• University Admissions Tests
• Underground Maths
• Knowledge Organisers – Mathematics
• Misconceptions
• Literacy Skills in Mathematics
• Exam Results 2025

Note also the top menu where we have, for example, questions by topic KS3-KS5.

A reminder of the resource collections for KS3-KS4

• Number
• Ratio
• Algebra
• Geometry
• Probability and Statistics

Each of these pages includes a description of the GCSE content and links to resources, there is a link at the top of each page for sites easily searchable by topic; the old but still useful National Strategies Exemplication Examples are also included.

Information and resources for IGCSE Mathematics is available from the top menu tab, GCSE/IGCSE/L2 Further Maths (14-16)

Also available from the top menu tab are resources for AQA Level 2 Further Mathematics

Many excellent resources for A Level teaching can be found on this page, A Level (16+) Resources. I have included the A Level baseline test and resources from Pixi Maths. This very useful set of resources includes solutions as well as the baseline test, a question-level analysis and also an intervention booklet and solutions.

We also have on Webmaths, for A Level Maths, “3 a day” for Year 12 Maths; these resources look excellent; you can also find Year 13 3 a day. The starters are included in the Advanced Level Starters collection.

Staying with the Transition from GCSE to A Level, this post, GCSE to A Level Transition includes a resource collection for students starting A Level Maths, and supporting their Year 12 work.

Information and resources on University Admissions tests can be found here.