Mathematics Curriculum Leader: Miss Devani KS4 Coordinator: Mrs Sherali

Key Dates OFFICIAL EXAMS: Thursday 25th May 2017 Paper 1: Non-Calculator Foundation and Higher Tier ( 1h 30m ) Thursday 8th June 2017 Paper 2: Calculator Foundation and Higher Tier ( 1h 30m ) Tuesday 13th June 2017 Paper 3: Calculator Foundation and Higher Tier ( 1h 30m )

Year 11 Short Term Plan Mock exam (1) 11th and 14th November January 2017- Feb 2017 – 6 week teaching plan tailored for each individual class according to mock breakdown. Test to assess 6 week revision Mock Exams (2) - Beginning of March 2017 April- May Exam Papers

MOCK EXAMS: Friday 11th November 2016 Paper 1: Non-Calculator Foundation and Higher Tier Monday 14th November 2016 Paper 2 & Paper 3: Calculator Foundation and Higher Tier Each paper is 1hr 30 min

New maths GCSE grades for 2017 7 is anchored to old A 5 is set between B and C (new pass grade) 4 is anchored to old C 1 is the old F and G

Exam preparation and resources What can you do to help ? Exam preparation and resources Revision guides and workbooks produced by Edexcel will be available to buy via parent pay Scientific calculator, Maths set. Use GCSE Topic list to work on ‘weak’ topics.

Online Resources www.mymaths.co.uk – USERNAME : Uxbridge PASSWORD : Equation4 Interactive online lessons www.corbettmaths.com (open access) Video clips, practice questions, 5 a day revision questions www.examsolutions.net/gcse-maths/ Video clips, , practice questions Pixl maths app (individual student logins provided next week) https://www.samlearning.com/ Past paper are available from www.edexcel.com, using the following route: Subjects / Maths and Statistics / GCSE / Mathematics / Mathematics A (2010) / Exam materials

Average Retention Rate What can you do to help ? Average Retention Rate

Any Questions ? Miss Devani bdevani@uhs.org.uk Mrs Sherali ssherali@uhs.org.uk

What can you do to help ? Talk about numbers Real life situations: shopping, offers, best buys, interest rates, commission payments, bills Mental maths: the more automatic responses that a candidate can accurately recall the better Discuss problem solving strategies: drawing diagrams, underlining important facts and reading questions carefully can all help Does their answer make sense? Estimating as a checking strategy is useful