2nd June 2022 -Breakfast Workouts for all boards 

 

Paper 2 workout sheets based on the Advance Information are in the 07 Revision & exam prep/ 05 Breakfast workouts / 02 – 2022 Paper 2 all boards. A reminder that they generally include AO1 (using and applying) style questions because the last thing you want to be doing on the morning of the exam is stressing students out with the idea that they can’t answer a question – the idea is that we build confidence during the session.

 

30th  May 2022 – Prep for paper 2 and paper 3 updated … 

 

Further to the below there are TWO “Mish Mash” worksheets for Edexcel paper 2 Higher now in the folder mentioned below. Used the first lot with our groups last week and they were well received … I think they are a bit “exam paper’d out” and so this just mixes it up a bit (they are all still exam questions!)

Paper 3s and breakfast worksheets are on their way.

 

23rd May 2022 – Prep for paper 2 and paper 3

 

Thinking about what to do for paper 2 … I’ve put together the first “Mish Mash” (I couldn’t think of another name but seems apt as there is a real “Mish Mash” of topics all mixed up) for Edexcel Foundation paper 2 which has one question for each topic …. there will probably be 2 of these per paper to include most of the topics on the AI. The intention is that this week there will be at least one sheet done for paper 2 for Edexcel  with the rest and sheets for paper 3 being available for the return to school after half term. (We may use them for revision sessions over the break too!)

I’ve put the first one in 07 Revision& exam prep / 4b Summer 22 P2 and P3

As always, may or may not be useful.

 

22nd May 2022 – Worked Solutions P1 & AI Comparison Information

 

I have uploaded worked solutions for Edexcels paper 1 (other papers and boards will be added on an ongoing basis)

In addition I have included in the exam paper folder (Summer 2022) some analysis about the AI information and what question each topic appeared under for Edexcel and AQA’s paper 1’s (again its an ongoing project) but overall I think the Advance information was useful.

Thinking towards paper 2 and paper 3, there will be a holiday homework for Pearson (H&F) and also some material (probably 2 small papers with 1 question of each topic) aimed specifically at the topics on the AI to use in revision sessions … watch this space.

 

15/16th May 2022

 

I have uploaded the markschemes for the Eduqas November Papers and Worked Solutions for all the papers .. even if you don’t use Eduqas (for use in England) they are still a good source of questions particularly for challenging your higher attaining students so well worth a look!

Higher tier breakfast workouts FOR ALL BOARDS (i.e. specific to their advance information) have been added to the revision / exam prep folder. They only include AO1 (using and applying) style questions because the last thing you want to be doing on the morning of the exam is stressing students out with the idea that they can’t answer a question – the idea is that we build confidence during the session.

The same style worksheets will be available over the half term break for paper 2 and paper 3.

 

14th May 2022

 

Breakfast workouts for Foundation paper 1 (one for each board based on the advanced information) complete with an answer “strip” so students can quickly check their answers (fold over the strip so they don’t just copy of course) are now available. They are in the revision / exam prep folder. (Higher workouts are on their way!)

10th May 2022

 

Combined Markschemes for the HIGHER Take 5s have been uploaded for those of you that want to share with students

 

9th May 2022

 

Combined Markschemes for the Foundation Take 5s have been uploaded for those of you that want to share with students – our plan is to email them to parents/students between P1 and P2 and then P2 and P3 .

Higher will be available tomorrow.

 

25th April 2022

 

Take 5’s for the below have been uploaded today. Higher tier is finished and combined documents for all 3 Higher  papers are available :

  • Foundation tier: Compound units, Percentage to fractions and One Quantity as a Percentage of Another

Paper 3 will be finished today and the the combined worksheets will be uploaded later.

UPDATE: Combined worksheets for all papers are now available. I am also in the process of adding the separate worksheets to the relevant topic folders in either Working Towards, Crossover and Working Above for use going forward rather than them being hidden away just for 2022 (so you may see them in two places)!

24th April 2022

 

The more eagle eyed of you have already noticed something I’ve snuck into the teacher toolkit. I’ve looked at the key stage 1 to 4 programmes of study and also the GCSE subject content and attempted to map it out over the 11 year journey. You will find the excel worksheet and also the PDF that shows years 1 to 6 followed by the objectives from KS3, KS4 and I then added in the GCSE subject content because basically the GCSE subject content is an amalgamation of KS3 and KS4 in the main (all DFE docs can be found in the same folder too) …. You can find this in the teacher toolkit / 05 Schemes of Work / 07 Exam Specs, DFE etc (new docs are called F1 Year 1 to Year 11 Mapping) .

There are some discrepancies such as at KS3 … It states “expand products of two or more binomials” but at GCSE (but interestingly the KS4 content isn’t as explicit ..  the subject content states “expanding products or two or more binomials” whereby the “or more” is bold text which means that its higher tier only. Weird.

As usual, may or may not be useful.

 

3rd April 2022

 

Take 5’s for the below have been uploaded today:

  • Foundation tier: Number machines, Scale drawing, Depreciation, Currency Conversion and Transformations

The combined worksheets for Foundation Paper 2 are also available (Paper 3 is on its way).

Additionally a “holiday homework” for Working Above has been added to the “other resources” folder. We’ve also included Foundation & Crossover and Crossover & Working Above worksheets as combined documents if you wanted to print them back to back (A3 works really well … we all know how much students love oversized paper!)

31st March 2022

 

Take 5’s for the below have been uploaded today:

  • Foundation tier: Triangle Properties, Quadrilaterals, Polygons, Circles, Parallel & Perpendicular Lines

The combined worksheets for Foundation Paper 2 will be available this weekend (Paper 3 is on its way). Higher worksheets are trickling in too.

 

29th March 2022

 

Take 5’s for the below have been uploaded today:

  • Foundation tier: Area of a Rectangle, Area of a Triangle and Area of a Trapezium

In addition a couple of new resources have been added to 65 Real Life Graphs (a CheckOut, a Back to the Future and a Take 5 style Wsheet). I know its not on the AI list but I’m working on refreshing all the topic resources as we update the videos and add Quick Vids for the Crossover.

 

28th March 2022

 

Take 5’s for the below have been uploaded today:

  • Foundation tier: Laws of Indices, Linear Simultaneous Equations, Coordinates, Straight Line Graphs, Decimals to Percentages, Profit, Angles in a Triangle and Vertically Opposite Angles.

In addition a “CheckIn” (and solutions) for 66/67 Congruence and Similar Shapes has been added to the teaching resources folder for this topic in the Crossover. This is to support the new video lesson and quick videos that are now available for Congruence.

 

27th March 2022

 

Take 5’s for the below have been uploaded today:

  • Foundation tier: Frequency Tables, Probability Tree diagrams and combined events, Comparisons of Distributions and Frequency Polygons

 

20th March 2022

 

Take 5’s for the below have been uploaded today:

  • Foundation tier: Rounding, Error Intervals, Expanding brackets, Factorising, Changing the subject, Reverse %ages and averages

We have also reviewed the “final countdown” documents and crossed out any topics on the front pages that are not on the AI list.

 

16th March 2022

 

Combined Take 5’s for paper 1 foundation (Edexcel) is now completed and available in the 07. Revision/ Exam Prep / 04 Take 5. The rest of the Take 5s are on their way!

 

QLAs available for the adapted Nov 21 papers that only include questions on the Advance information.

 

Happy weekend!

 

16th March 2022

 

Take 5’s for the below have been uploaded today:

  • Foundation tier: Quadratic graphs, linear sequences, Percentage of an Amount, Percentage Increase / Decrease, Reverse Percentages, Speed and Density

This means that foundation paper 1 for Pearson is now complete and I’ll be combining these into one document to hand out to students / email out to parents too over the weekend. We are aiming to get F paper 2 finished next week shortly followed by paper 3.

 

14th March 2022

 

Take 5’s for the below have been uploaded today:

  • Foundation tier: Write as a ratio (inc 1:n), Share in a ratio, Use ratio, Direct Proportion, Probability Scale and Probability

 

6th March 2022

 

Take 5’s for the below have been uploaded today:

  • Foundation tier: Quadratic equations, Conversions (Mass, time, area and length), Reflections, Plans & elevations, Volume of a cube, Volume of a cylinder, Frequency Trees, Pictograms, Bar Charts, Two Way Tables and Stem and Leaf diagrams.

4th March  2022

 

Further to the adapted Nov 21 papers mentioned below – I have added some student “advanced information” sheets specifically for those papers (see note below on 27th Feb) so that students can use them in the same way that the ones for the formal exams are to be used by students.

 

Additionally, Take 5’s for the below have been uploaded today:

  • Higher tier: From my fab colleagues: Write as a Ratio, Share in a Ratio and Write in the form 1:n

Additionally, I have been contacted (*waves*) and asked if I had a version of the Advanced Info (AI) list for Pearson that included reference to the Ready? Set? Go! Crossover Revision Guides … (www.justaroo.co.uk) and so I’ve added an extra tab in the “Student friendly” version of the AI spreadsheet that includes this information. You’ll find this in 06 Exam Papers/ 01 GCSE 9-1 Paper / 0 Advance Information

 

28th Feb 2022

 

Take 5’s for the below have been uploaded today:

  • Foundation tier: Estimation, Substitution and Simplification
  • Higher tier: From my fab colleagues: Area of a sector, Density and Angles in a Polygon

 

27th Feb 2022

Following the publication of the advanced information deciding which papers to use for a final mock or as “prep” between the papers is difficult as past papers will include topics that don’t appear on “the list”. Most people will use the most recent papers as their final mock so we’ve taken the Pearson/Edexcel November 2021 papers and removed any topics that are not on the list and replaced them with questions for topics that are (on the list).

 

To do this and maintain “some” of the integrity of the grade boundaries we haven’t moved questions between papers; so, if for example Topic A was on the advanced information for paper 2 but appeared on paper 1 in November we have left it on paper 1.

 

There are some health warnings: no one knows (and if they do they shouldn’t be sharing that information as it means they are part of the examination team!) how a specific topic will be examined and so we should be wary of anyone claiming that they do. Additionally not all topics on the “list” have been included as papers would be bigger than 80 marks to cover all of them!

 

As there are still lots of questions about how we can interpret each of the descriptors on the list which we wont really know until after paper 1 we will still be producing “between paper” practice papers i.e. between paper 1 and 2 and between 2 and 3 to use with students to give them some more focussed practice.

As always, may or may not be of use.

 

You will find these in:

                       06 Exam Papers / 01 GCSE 9-1 / a 2021 November / a4 Edexcel – ADAPTED re Advance Information

 

 

16th Feb 2022 

Take 5’s for the below have been uploaded today for Higher tier: Equation of tangent to a circle, Gradients of Parallel and Perpendicular Lines, Equations of Proportion

 

15th Feb 2022 (ongoing thanks to my colleagues: Darbo (Mike Darby) and Matt Man

 

Take 5’s for the below have been uploaded today:

  • Foundation tier: Use of Calculator
  • Higher tier: From my fab colleagues: Bounds, Use of Calculator, Expansion of Bracket and Algebraic Fractions

 

14th Feb 2022

 

Take 5’s for the below have been uploaded today:

  • Foundation tier: Linear Inequalities
  • Higher tier: Some of my fab colleagues (**Waves at Mr Man and Darbo … Mr Man doesn’t have a nickname yet) have started to put these together and so I’ve added another folder for this tier of entry and this evening added Quadratic equations, Factorisation, Negative & Fractional Indices, Simplification of Surds and Cumulative Frequency Graphs.

13th Feb 2022

 

Below you will see the progress in pulling together some “Take 5” worksheets for the Edexcel Foundation tier .. i.e. 5 questions (occasionally 3 or sometimes 10!) for each of the topics on the advance information. I have tried to show these in order of relative difficulty so they should be accessible for all students …  15 done … in terms of going forward I will prioritise paper 1 but because some topics appear twice they may be useful for other papers too. They are in the revision / exam prep folder.

 

As always, may or may not be useful

 

10th Feb 2022

 

I have added three more “take 5” … with 5 questions for Fraction Arithmetic, Fraction of an amount and Recurring Decimals …. this time for the Higher tier (these are based on the Pearson list) but please do bear in mind there is no guarantee that these are standalone topics or that they will be examined in this way but some practice is better than none! They can be found in the revision and exam prep folder. I suspect I am going to be repeating that disclaimer lots!! 

I used the “Money” one in revision this week and it worked really well. Lots of misconceptions addressed.

 

8th Feb 2022

 

Further to the below I have added two more “take 5” … with 5 questions for Negative numbers and Four operations …. (these are based on the Pearson list) but please do bear in mind there is no guarantee that these are standalone topics or that they will be examined in this way but some practice is better than none! They can be found in the revision and exam prep folder. 

 

7th Feb 2022

 

Following the publication of the advance information you can find some useful documents in the exam paper paper folder (9-1) / 2022 support / Advance information which will include student friendly versions of the information and also the excel version that you can adapt yourselves if you wish.

I have also added a new folder to the “revision & exam prep” folder called “Take 5” where I’m looking to collate 5 questions for each of the topics on the advance information – remember there is no way of knowing the way a topic could appear in the exams. All we can do now is prepare them well.

6th February 2022

 

RAG paper for November 21 Edexcel Higher Paper 3 is now available for use following mocks etc – which means ALL the papers are now available.   The video solutions to the original paper have also been added to the video solution page (password protected so you can release these to students if and when you want to )

 

31st January 2022

 

We are due to see the advance information on or before the 7th Feb, so in order to try to pre-empt a flurry of unsustainable workload (i.e. before you all go off and start pulling stuff together and us all potentially duplicating work) just to give you the heads up that (depending on how useful the information is) we have a plan! Initially we may have to format the information into something that is more user friendly and then I’ll be pulling together exam questions for each topic (if we don’t already have them!) based on specific topics and to also adapt the “final countdown” docs to indicate topics that are not on “THE LIST”.

PS: If you haven’t seen the final countdown do check them out … we are emailing out to parents and students every week and so far the response from parents has been fab!

 

29th January 2022

 

RAG paper for November 21 Edexcel Higher Paper 2 is now available for use following mocks etc – which means all the foundation papers are now available. The last paper in this series is on it way and I will update this accordingly.  The video solutions to the original paper have also been added to the video solution page (password protected so you can release these to students if and when you want to )

 

23rd Jan 22

 

The use of formula sheets will be new to lots of students and expecting them to know what to do on the day of the exam without having seen them before is a plan for disaster. We didn’t use them for the first set of mocks as the exam board versions weren’t available and now that they are we will be using them in the next mocks … but not before we get students to use them in class a bit. Those of you that have seen them will know that there is some controversy over the use of the compound interest and probability information on them. So … I’ve put together some slides called “tick and trash” showing which parts they can use as given on the sheet and others to only use when all else has failed and they cant remember the methods shown in class. If you want to use these slides you can off course adapt according to your own cohort and to the right of each slide I’ve left arrows and bins (it’ll make sense if you open the PPTs) so that you can adapt accordingly.

In addition I’ve pulled some questions together from the old spec that can be used to apply each of the areas on the formula sheet.

As always …. may or may not be useful.  You can find these in the Exam Papers folder / 01 GCSE 9-1 / 0 Formula Sheets

 

 

18th Jan 2022

 

This is just a reminder about the “final countdown” … I know its been a while since we’ve been preparing students for real exams but its now looking unlikely that we’ll have TAGs/CAGs (fingers crossed!) and so thought it timely to remind people about these. They are a small selection of questions on two or three topics each week meant to be used in the lead up to the exams – in the revision, exam prep & final countdown folder you will find these documents to support your students.

 

There are resources for Foundation students made up of 10 weeks for “working towards” style questions and 19 weeks of “Crossover” topics and for Higher tier students there are the “Crossover” topics and then 15 weeks for “Working” above. The way we use these is to send them out to parents (with solutions/markschemes sent out a week later) and students every week without fail via email.

The intention is that once the advance information is available from the boards we’ll review the content of these and adapt them going forward based on the information. In the meantime we didn’t want to wait for this information as we need students to think about preparing for their exams NOW!

 

17th Jan 2022

 

Grade boundary document have been updated to include the Nov 21 boundaries for all the boards. I have also updated the trend documents (e1) that show the trends for each board over time and also added a wbook (d1) that compares all of the Nov 21 boundaries from all the boards with each other.

 

10th Jan 2022

 

Mock set 7 has been released by Pearson and I have added worked solutions and the QLA to exam papers / samples, specimens and mocks. We have already used these as part of a trial with Pearson and the students found them very accessible. Consequently grade boundaries used were relatively high to maintain the percentages at 4+, 5+ and 7+ at the same point as previous years.

The alternate papers based on the November 21 papers are on their way.

 

9th Jan  – Starting the EDEXCEL Foundation papers strong … High frequency (1/2 mark questions)

 

Following the annual frequency analysis of the topics that have appeared in the Edexcel Pearson papers up to and including November 2021 I have collated  (most of) the one and two mark AO1 (using and applying) questions that appear anywhere in the papers where they fell into a high frequency topic to provide additional focussed material for students in the final lead up to their exams.

There are couple of things to note:

  • I have not then included all the questions for a topic that falls into the above criteria – only the one or two mark questions and occasionally I have included some of the AO2/AO3 style questions (and subsequently 3 or 4 marks) below the main collection of questions.
  • A few topics have been excluded despite falling into the criteria of being a high frequency one or two mark question but in reality they are multi-part questions or are mostly AO2/AO3 questions.

Each topic is on a separate sheet as they may be useful for revision sessions, lesson starters or homework. I have also included them as one continuous document to save paper.

NOTE: there is no guarantee that any of these topics will appear in the next sitting, but the intention is to build students confidence at the start of the papers.

 

You will find these worksheets/documents in 07 Revision, Exam Prep & Final Countdown/ 03 The Final Stretch / 01 Prep for Summer 2022

1.    Powers, indices, roots & 4 operations 15.  Bar Charts, pictograms
2.    Simplifying expressions & Index Laws 16.  Types of number: Primes, factors &  multiples
3.    Standard Form 17.  Product of primes factors, HCF & LCM
4.    Ratio 18.  Use of Calculator
5.    Rounding 19.  Inequalities
6/7. Linear Equations: Solving & Forming 20. Time (including simple speed & distance)
Angle Facts (not included) Reflections (not included)
8.    Fraction, Decimal & % conversions. 21.  Combinations
9.    Fraction equivalence Conversion Graphs (not included)
10.  Fractions 22.  Metric conversions
11.  Sequences 23.  Properties of 2D shapes & 3D forms
12.  Probability Scale (and probability = 1) 24.  Area of simple shapes
13.  Substitution, Expanding & factorising 25.  Coordinates
14.  Place value & numbers into size order 26. Percentages
Straight Line Graphs (not included) 27. Averages

 

5th January 22

 

Happy New Year!!

 

RAG paper for November 21 Edexcel Higher Paper 1 is now available for use following mocks etc – which means all the foundation papers are now available. The other papers in this series are on their way and I will update this accordingly.  

31st Dec

 

January Higher Maths Calendar and solutions for November (higher version) .. don’t forget that for “Crossover” and “basic skills” there are already 12 months calendars available (other resources/01 Monthly Maths Calendar).

13th December 

 

RAG paper for November 21 Edexcel Foundation P3 is now available for use following mocks etc – which means all the foundation papers are now available. The other papers in this series are on their way and I will update this accordingly. I will also make “alternate” versions available over Christmas which examine the same skills but have the numbers changed to avoid students finding markschemes etc. 

The video solutions for these papers are also available (password protected) on the exam solutions tab – passwords are available in Dept Admin / Using JustMaths. 

6th December 

 

RAG paper for November 21 Edexcel Foundation P2 is now available for use following mocks etc. The other papers in this series are on their way and I will update this accordingly.

The video solutions for these papers are also available (password protected) on the exam solutions tab – passwords are available in Dept Admin / Using JustMaths. 

4th December – The RAG functionality is back up and running. Just a reminder that the link on the emails only remains live for 7 days … after this time the file is deleted from our server (GDPR apparently!!) 

 

3rd December 2021 –  We are aware of an issue with the RAG paper function and are working on resolving this. Please bear with us … I will advise when its back up and running. 

 

1st December 2021

 

December Higher Maths Calendar and solutions for November (higher version) .. don’t forget that for “Crossover” and “basic skills” there are already 12 months calendars available (other resources/01 Monthly Maths Calendar).

Worked solutions for AQA November Higher Paper 3 also available.

 

28th November 2021

 

Firstly, can I remind you that anything on JMOnline is only for use this within your school and not to be shared with colleagues or friends that are not part of JMOnline – lots of time and effort has gone into collating this and I haven’t shared widely.

 

You will find some analysis showing the topics, number of marks and how many appearances each topic made in all the sittings of the Edexcel papers since June 2017 (excluding mocks etc) … There is also a tab for each tier that shows all the topics that have either made an appearance in every sitting (i.e.  the high frequency topics) or in 5,6 or 7 of  the  sittings just because I thought these could be considered “semi” high frequency.

 

I have also added in information about the topics which have more than 3 marks per appearance for the foundation tier and more than 3.5 marks per appearance on Higher tier (they may not necessarily be high frequency topics) . 

 

Finally I have highlighted those that are both high or semi-high frequency if they also come with high marks per question. You can off course cut and slice the data any way that you want! I have place this in the exam papers/ grade boundaries and data/ Frequency Analysis to Nov 21 folder. 

 

With this information I will be updating the final stretch documents to include some practice questions for the high frequency questions to use after Christmas alongside the “final countdown” stuff that is already available and ready for use.

22nd November 2021

Question Level Analysis excel workbooks available for the November 21 Edexcel papers. The sheets for each paper are set up so that they can be used to generate RAG papers when they are available for these papers (Foundation P1 is done). You can also generate student specific QLAs using these by entering the student reference in cell E1 and the data from papers 1, 2 and 3 you’ve entered will appear for that specific student.

There is also a blank version if you want to print blank versions and get the students to fill them in.

Worked Solutions for AQA Higher paper 2 are also available.

19th November 2021

I’ve completed some analysis that shows the common assessment items between the higher and foundation tiers for the November papers for Edexcel and AQA. This is available in the exam paper folder / grade boundaries and data.

Worked Solutions for all the Edexcel November 21 papers are finished. AQA Foundation & Higher paper 1 is also available,

17th November 2021

RAG paper for November 21 Edexcel Foundation P1 is now available for use following mocks etc. The other papers in this series are on their way and I will update this accordingly.

10th November 2021

Updated video (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions) and Quick hints now available for 61 Straight Line Graphs,

Bread and butter starter w/sheets continue to be uploaded for all SOWs.

Combined CheckIns for Working Above now available. (More CheckOuts and combined ones are on their way)

I have been asked by several people about whether or not we are intending on giving students formula sheets for their upcoming mocks … no we aren’t. The plan is to provide them at their final mocks in Mar/April (possibly!) as we genuinely believe in having a high bar at this stage so that students continue to work hard (or indeed start to work hard) and then anything that helps them in the final exam is a “brucey bonus” and not something we and them are relying on to get them the marks they need to get them over that finish line.

7th November 2021

Worked solutions for the November papers will be available as soon as the papers are available – Edexcel paper 1s and AQA Foundation paper 1 are already uploaded.

1st November 2021

November Higher Maths Calendar and solutions for October (higher version) .. don’t forget that for “Crossover” and “basic skills” there are already 12 months calendars available (other resources/01 Monthly Maths Calendar)

 

18th October – FORMULA SHEETS

On 30th September, the Department for Education (DfE) and Ofqual published the outcomes of the consultation on proposed summer 2022 adaptations, including optionality and advance Exam support materials and one of the adaptations for Maths was the inclusion of a Formula Sheet (this is the same information and applies to all boards). A release date is yet to be confirmed but the plan is that all boards will release the sheets at the same time and the sheets will include the same information for all boards (but there will be some formatting differences such a fonts etc) .

  1. There will be two sheets – one for each tier. Only those applicable to foundation tier content will be included in the foundation tier formulae sheet and the same for the higher tier formulae sheet. Some formulae may not be applicable and so may not be included. Note that any formulae that are usually given in the questions will still be included where applicable.
  2. The sheets will be available for the Summer and November 2022 GCSE Maths examinations – the same sheet will be used for the Summer and November 2022 GCSE Maths exams (It cannot be used for the November 2021 series even if it is released prior to these exams).
  3. Release date? (this will be one of the FAQs!)  We are awaiting a release date (I suspect Ofqual and DfE need to confirm this.
  4. The content will be based on the list of formulae in the DfE subject Level Conditions and Requirements for Mathematics, February 2017 (pages 34 and 35) … the below image is exactly as shown in the Subject Level document and so the underlined notes do not apply and I would refer you to point 1 above for clarification

11th October 2021

Loads of you have asked me to continue to produce the bread and butter starters for Working Above which I am now doing alongside the Crossover ones.

Updated videos (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions) and Quick hints now available for

  • Scatter Graphs
  • Time Series
  • Coordinate Geometry 1

4th October 2021

 Added to the site this evening:

  • New Wsheet for UB and LB for working above SOW.
  • Higher Maths Calendar for October – solutions will be made available when November is published towards the end of the month.
  • Bread and butter starters for W/Above (more to come!)

30th September

Updated videos (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions) and Quick hints now available for

    • Circles 2
    • Arcs & Sectors,
    • Surface Area & Volume 1
    • Surface Area & Volume 2
    • Sampling
    • Averages from a Table
    • Averages from Grouped Data
    • Pie Charts

14th September

Updated video (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions) and Quick hints now available for 52 Averages.

Solutions for Crossover bread and butter 1.1 to 3.5 also uploaded.

NOTE: The “numbering” of the teaching resources folders in the Crossover folder now reflects the order of the SOW as per the attached student checklist (this also follows the order of the topics in the revision guide -> Ready? Set? Go! The Crossover )  b. Student Checklist From Sept21 v2

6th September 2021

Bread and butter starters for Working Above and Crossover will be uploaded on an ongoing basis and can be found in the “Starters” folders then 21-22. Note that the working above sheets include “crossover” material to ensure that this material is retained by the students and to act as an additional mechanism for checking prior knowledge. You will find a spreadsheet showing “order of topics” which gets updated when new sheets are uploaded so that you can see what topics are included in each sheet – I use this to make sure that topics are revisited regularly after they are initially taught.

Excel version of the Crossover SOW is available – we are tweaking the ability to have links (currently we have come across an issue whereby the documents would all need to be encrypted and so are seeking a solution to this) so please bear with us as we develop this functionality.

16th August 2021

Updated:

  • Curriculum audit and
  • Curriculum plan for 2021 / 21 updated – this is a week by week mapping which shows how we have adapted the SOW based on what was taught last year and also the data/assessment points we have for each year group (9 to 11) in our current context. It also shows a plan on how in a normal year the three schemes of work would pan out.

Docs can be found in 05 SOW / Curriculum Planning

12th July 2021

  • Updated video (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions) and Quick hints now available for
    • Circles 1
    • Trigonometry 1
    • Pythagoras 2
    • Pythagoras with Trigonometry

20th June 2021 – NEW TEACHERTOOLKIT

 

When you log in you will immediately notice that the TeacherToolkit has changed. Over the years the resources we shared have expanded from just being about 40 topics (the Top 40) to 50 (the Big Fat 50) then 60 (the Super 60) and then into The Crossover (which is our focus), additionally we also expanded what we share what used to be classed as “extras” and so the previous format was no longer fitting the direction we’ve gone so we have spent months working on a structure that we think makes sense. It reflects the filing structure we use in our day to day working with Starters and Teaching Resources being easily found and then all the other stuff organized in a logical way.

 

If you don’t see the below folders when you login please clear your caches (Fize told me that’s what you may need to do … doesn’t mean a lot to me if I’m honest) and if you do have any issues he can be emailed at Fize@justmaths.co.uk

 

Under each of the headers you will see an “I” icon that details what you can find in each folder but hopefully its not too much change all at once! (In the Dept Admin / Using JustMaths folder you’ll also find a PPT that gives you an overview of the folder structure too)

Mel

10th June 2021 – GETTING READY FOR SEPTEMBER 

 

We are tweaking the order slightly of the Crossover scheme of work from September (so that it mimics the Ready? Set? Go! Revision guides but also because we’ve found it works better in this order with our intervention groups (target grades of 3, 4 and 5). So you will find a new student checklist in the Crossover tab (Student checklist) that reflects this order.

You can also find in the essentials tab the new improved SOW that clearly shows the prior knowledge required and also reflecting this new order.

In addition to this for September we have an interactive version that will include links to the check in and check outs:

and will also include links to tailored bread and butter starter sheets to support retrieval.

 

I am very excited about this!!

 

25th May 2021

  • Updated video (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions) and Quick hints now available for
    • Pythagoras 2
    • Trigonometry 1

16th May 2021

  • Solutions for the “starting the foundation papers” collection of 1 and 2 mark high frequency topics now available (Revision & Exam Prep/Final Stretch/Prep for Summer 2021)

  • Updated video (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions) and Quick hints now available for
    • Standard Form 2
    • Factorising 2
    • Bearings and
    • Pythagoras Theorem 1

10th May 2021

  • Worked solutions for the crossover Qs from the Edexcel Nov 2020 papers now available (Essentials / Exam Papers /Nov 2020)
  • Updated video (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions) and Quick hints now available for Interior & Exterior angles

APRIL 2021

I am filling in some gaps for Eduqas, AQA and OCR worked solutions for past sittings or practice papers so these will start to appear in the relevant folders (Past papers or Samples, Specimens & Mocks)

You will also note that we have updated the videos (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions) and made some quick hints videos for :

    • Standard Form1
    • Changing the Subject
    • Angles in Parallel Lines
    • Plans & Elevation

TAG ASSESSMENT STRATEGY SUPPORT

In the essentials / exam papers / GCSE 9-1 folder you will find a document that details the assessment strategy we are using in our day jobs … along with two “Crossover” papers (which consist of  tweaked past paper questions) which I hope you will find useful. The  markscheme for the “core” paper 2 will be available shortly and the “higher” paper will be available early next week as we aren’t planning on using that till after the Easter break. And … don’t forget you will also find alternative versions of the Nov 2020 papers in the Exam Paper folder.

As always, may or may not be useful.

25th MARCH:

As part of our facelift, we’ve reviewed the format of our Working Towards Scheme of work . Now, more than ever, it’s extremely important that the “prior knowledge” within each unit is checked (these are clearly signposted). To support this each unit is resourced with CheckIns and CheckOuts. Combined Booklets of these are also available which may be suitable to give to year 9 (into 10) over the Summer 2021 term/ holiday.

In addition, there are bread and butter starters (term 1, ready for Sept 21 is already available on JMOnline) that follows the order of these units for interleaving/spaced retrieval – they may also be useful for homework or low stake quizzes.

In addition to this we’ve also made this available as an excel spreadsheet to enable you to easily re-sequence the units should you wish and also add links to resources etc.

A similar review is being carried out for the Crossover and Working Above in readiness for September.

 

 

In terms of resources, the below are also now available:

  • CheckIn and Solutions for Pythagoras (Crossover)
  • CheckOut and solutions for Pythagoras (Crossover)
  • Retrieval Wsheet for Pythagoras

 

21st  MARCH: 

Updated Video for Forming & Solving 2 (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions). Quick hints videos now available for this too.

19 TH MARCH: 

Alternate version of Higher Paper 3 for the November 2020 for Edexcel now available (Essentials / Exam Papers / Nov 2020)

18 TH MARCH: 

Following a request … I’ve made available the word versions of our alternate November 2020 papers for F1, 2 and 3 and H1 and 2 uploaded, H3 is on its way … just need to finish the MScheme!

14 TH MARCH UPDATE: 

CheckOut and solutions for Changing the Subject (Crossover)

CheckIn and CheckOut (& solutions) for Plans & Elevations, Constructions. (Crossover)

13 TH MARCH UPDATE: 

CheckOut & Solutions for Changing the Subject (Crossover)

Exit Card and solutions for Factorising 1&2 (Crossover)

11 TH MARCH UPDATE: 

CheckOut and solutions for Factorising 1&2 (crossover)

Updated Video for Factorising 1 (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions)
Quick hints now available for this too

8TH MARCH UPDATE: 

RAG paper for Edexcel Nov 2020 Higher paper 3 (this series is now complete)

Updated Video for Forming & Solving 1 (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions)
Quick hints now available for this too

Updated Video for Expand & Simplify (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions)
Quick hints now available for this too

CheckOut solutions for standard form 1&2 (crossover)
CheckIn/CheckOut Solutions for Fractional & Negative Indices (Working Above)
CheckIn & CheckOut and solutions for Vectors (Working Above)

New Mini Test and solutions for Factorising 1&2

Part 3 of the analysis powerpoint looking at the November Edexcel Papers is available in the Grade Boundary & Data folder (essentials) … g1. Edexcel JMaths Analysis. These may be useful to go through as a maths team to discuss why certain questions/topics performed the way they did.

1ST MARCH UPDATE: 

Now that the facelift on some of the pages is complete we are working on a new filing structure … and to ease the transition we’ve been slowly moving stuff to their new folders and thought it would be apt to share an overview of our thought process so that when we switch it over (Easterish!) it won’t be a massive shock. The original intention of the toolkit was to just provide teaching resources for 40 topics (the original Top 40 list) and over the years has just expanded and so it was time for a reorg! Hopefully you’ll find that your brain works like mine when it comes to organising stuff in a logical place … starters. teaching, other teaching, dept stuff, exam papers and then exam prep … FOR NOW the stuff for topics remains in the tabs at the top of the toolkit .. eventually they’ll all merge so that the toolkit will be based around essential 7 folders. Please don’t get too excited the folders won’t be these colours and the functionality of the filing system is still being developed (we’re conscious about not changing too much at once)

And below these folders looks like this …. I will be putting a copy of this in the Dept Admin/Using JustMaths folder for future reference.

1ST MARCH … NEW THIS WEEK: 

Alternate Higher tier paper 2 for the Edexcel November 2020 series is now available.

RAG papers for this paper can also be generated for November 2020.

Another call out to those that have asked for CPD around these papers I’ve sent suggested dates but had no response … can you check your junk email (Jess R … can you check too)

28TH FEB … NEW THIS WEEK: 

– Updated Video for Index Laws (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions)
– Quick hints now available for this too
– New Exit card and retrieval wsheet for Index Laws.
– Updated Exam Qs for Index Laws
– Exit card for Expand & Simplify
– CheckOut for Forming & Solving 1&2
– Updated Mini Test for Forming & Solving 1&2

If you have emailed me requesting CPD around the Nov papers … can you check your JUNK folders for my response please as my emails may be being discarded by your schools spam filters.

24TH FEB … NEW THIS WEEK: 

Quick summary of some more updates:

– Updated Video for Sequences (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions) – quick hints now available for this too

– Quick hint vids now available for Solving equations.

– CheckOut & Solutions for Crossover: Index Laws, Expand & Simplify and Sequences.

– Retrieval Wsheet for Solving Equations

– New revision ”I can” worksheet for Pythagoras and for Circles (these increasingly difficult questions to assess whether students can use and apply Pythag or Circles) – both placed in the relevant topic folder.

Also a reminder that bread and butter starters for the Crossover are continuing to be uploaded.

WE HAVE A NEW LOOK … 22ND FEB … 

When you log into JustMaths Online you’ll find that the “lessons” page has had a facelift … not only does it have a new look but we are working through the topics to update the videos and also provide quick hints for sub topics within a topic. This is just phase one in a bigger project for Sept 2021 … the next stage is a revamp of the teacher toolkit.

NEW THIS WEEK … 21ST FEB:

Alternate Higher Paper 1 (and Markscheme) for November 2020 (Edexcel) available in the Exam Paper folder / Nov 2020 (P2 and P3 will be available by 28th Feb)

Shortened version of the formal MScheme for F Paper 1 for Edexcel (Nov 2020) rather than print off all the pages this version prints onto 1 doubled sided piece of paper.

CheckIn Solutions for Working Above – Recurring Decimals, Graphs/Non Linear Graphs & Equations of Circles,

CheckOut & Solutions for Working Above for Recurring Decimals, Linear Graphs & Equation of a Circle

Updated Video for Reverse Percentages (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions)

A REMINDER – CheckIns, CheckOuts and Mini Tests have been removed from the essentials tab and are in the folder for the specific topic in either the “Working Toward”, “Crossover” or “Working Above” tabs. This is ahead of some further changes to the teacher toolkit coming soon.

20th FEB … NEW THIS WEEK: 

Updated Video for Depreciation & Decay (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions)

Updated Exam Questions for Inequalities, New CheckOut and Exit card for Inequalities.

Part 2 of the analysis powerpoints looking at the November Edexcel Papers is available in the Grade Boundary & Data folder (essentials) … g1. Edexcel JMaths Analysis. These may be useful to go through as a maths team to discuss why certain questions/topics performed the way they did.

Hope you find this useful/interesting and if by any chance you would like this or similar delivered as CPD to your team remotely via Teams/Zoom over a couple of twilight sessions drop me an email and I am sure we will be able to deliver this for you too (of course its free!) … support@justmaths.co.uk

18TH FEB … FINAL COUNTDOWN: 

Exams are probably not even on your radar given that the next external ones that are likely to take place are in November but I’ve updated the final countdowns with a view to working on them with year 10s or even if your year 11s are still doing some form of assessment you’ll them useful.

There are 10 parts for the “Working Towards” SOW, 19 parts for the “Crossover” SOW and 15 parts for the “Working Above” SOW. We’d usually be emailing the WT and Crossover papers to the Foundation students and the Crossover and Working Above papers to our Higher tier student but we’re waiting until the 22nd (Ofqual are expected to publish their consultation outcome) to find out what our next steps are.

Please also note that I am making some subtle changes to the filing structure as over the last 8 years there has been more and more stuff that has been put in the essentials tab but more on that soon. The major change I’ve made this half term is to move the “mini tests” and CheckIns and CheckOuts into their specific subject folder in the “crossover” tab.

12th February 2021

  • New WSheet and solutions added to Recipes (e1/e2) in the Crossover folder of the teacher toolkit.
  • Updated Video for Interest & Growth (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions)
  • THE FINAL STRETCH 2021 (more likely 2022!!)

I have again spent some time looking at the start of the Edexcel Foundation tier papers and I have updated the list of high frequency AO1 (using & applying) 1- or 2-mark questions that have appeared in papers up to and including November 2020. In the Essentials Tab (07 Revision, Exam Prep & Final Countdown) you will find a collection that includes (most of the) questions that appear anywhere in the papers where they fell into a high frequency topic to provide additional focused material for students in the final lead up to their exams. Some of the AO2/AO3 style questions have been included below the main collection of questions within each topic.

Each topic is on a separate sheet as they may be useful for revision sessions, lesson starters or homework.

  1. Rounding.
  2. Place value – putting numbers into size order.
  3. Fraction, Decimal and Percentage conversions.
  4. Fraction equivalence
  5. Simplifying expressions
  6. Solving equations
  7. Powers, indices, roots and 4 operations
  8. Probability Scale (and probability = 1)
  9. Metric conversions
  10. Types of number (primes, factors, multiples)
  11. properties of 2D shapes and 3D forms
  12. Area of simple shapes
  13. Sequences
  14. Forming expressions
  15. Coordinates
  16. Ratio
  17. Percentages
  18. Fractions
  19. Bar Charts, pictograms
  20. Averages
  21. Combinations
  22. Product of Prime factors
  23. Substitution / Expanding and factorising
  24. Time (including simple speed/distance/time)
  25. Standard Form

10th February 2021

  • Retrieval Wsheets for Interest & Growth, Depreciation & Decay and Reverse Percentages
  • Exit card for Interest & Growth and Depreciation & Decay

7th February 2021

  • Updated Video for Recipes (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions)
  • Updated Video for Percentages 1 (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions)
  • “Back to the future” worksheet for Percentages
  • Exit Cards for Percentages 1 and Reverse Percentages
  • CheckOut and solutions for Index Laws and Standard Index Form (Essentials tab)

1st February 2021

  • “Back to the future” worksheet for Exchange rates
  • Updated “mini tests” for Recipes and Exchange rates

31st January 2021

  • Updated lesson video for Best Value.
  • NEW Exam Questions and Solutions, Exit Card and “Back to the Future” Wsheet for Recipes added to teacher toolkit

28th January 2021

  • NEW Exam Questions and Solutions, Exit Card and “Back to the Future” Wsheet for Best Value added to teacher toolkit

25th January 2021

  • Exam Questions and Solutions for Inverse Proportion added to teacher toolkit

23rd January 2021

  • Updated Video for Ratio 1 including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions) – also available on the student login.
  • Grade boundaries for the Nov 2020 papers added to the essentials tab along with some comparisons over time and with each board.
  • Exam Questions and Solutions for Direct Proportion added to teacher toolkit

20th January 2021

  • Updated Videos for Fractions 1 and Fractions 2 including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions) – also available on the student login.
  • Worked Solutions for Eduqas Nov 2020 (all papers)

14th January 2021

  • Updated Video for Multiples in Context/Real life Multiples including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions) – also available on the student login.

13th January 2021

  • Updated Video for Rounding and error intervals and Use of calculator including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions) – also available on the student login.
  • Crossover bread & butter sheets 14.1 to 14.4 now available,

10th January 2021

  • Worked solutions for all 6 of the secure mock 6 recently released by Pearson/Edexcel.
  • QLA workbooks available for Higher and Foundation tier papers.
  • Quick hint vids – You will soon see a new tab at the top of the teacher and student login that includes quick videos for discrete subtopics within a “unit/topic”. For example Two way tables has been broken down into:
    • Reading and understanding
    • Completing and using
    • Creating
    • With a twist.

These are being made available now and will form part of our new Learner Management System being developed for September where you will be able to allocate videos to watch, questions to answer, key skills challenges to complete etc to individual users.

7th January 2021

  • Updated Video for Estimation (including new Clip W/Sheet and solutions) – also available on the student login.

2nd January 2021

  • RAG paper for Edexcel Nov 2020 Higher paper 1
  • CheckIns for Crossover (Speed, Distance, Time & Compound Measure, Transformations)

1st January 2021

  • CheckIns for Crossover (Simultaneous Equations, Bearings, Probability, Direct and Inverse Proportion, Quadratic & Cubic Graphs, Angle Facts, Sequences, Forming & Solving Equations, Direct & inverse Proportion, Coordinate Geometry, Real-life Graphs and Vectors)

 

FOR UPDATES PRIOR TO THIS PLEASE (AND SOME THAT I MAY HAVE MISSED OFF HERE) SEE THE “NEW THIS WEEK” DOCUMENT IN THE DEPARTMENT ADMIN FOLDER / USING JUSTMATHS