Maths GCSE

AQA 8300

All students will study towards a GCSE in

Mathematics Higher or Foundation tier

Higher 9 8 7 6 5 4

Foundation 5 4 3 2 1

Eight things you need to know about the new GCSE

1. It’s bigger

2. There’s more content at both tiers

3. There are new Assessment Objectives

4. There are more formulae that pupils will need to memorise

for the exams

5. There are more examination papers for pupils to sit

6. The structure of the papers has changed

7. The new grading system

8. The assessments are more demanding

• Surds

• Reverse percentages

• Factorising quadratics

• Trigonometry – the sine, cosine and tangent ratios, including to know

the exact values of sin, cos and tan 30°, 60° and 45°

• Using an inequality to specify error intervals due to rounding

• Circle properties

• Vectors

• Tree diagrams

• Standard form

• Compound interest

• Simultaneous equations

• Direct and inverse proportion

• Fractional scale factors of enlargements

• Conditional probability and tree diagrams

• Frequency trees

• Venn diagrams

• Fibonacci type sequences, quadratic sequences, geometric progressions

2. There’s more content at both tiers – New to Foundation

2. There’s more content at both tiers – New to Higher

• The gradient at a point on a curve as a rate of change• The area under a graph• Geometric progressions• Composite and inverse functions• Iteration• The location of turning points on a quadratic function by

completing the square• Expanding products of more than two binomials

3. There are new

assessment objectives

• Less rote learning more on problem

solving

• Multi-step solutions

• Less clearly structured questions

• More open ended questions

• Real life contexts

4. There are more formulae that pupils will need to memorise

for the exams

5. There are more examination papers for pupils to take

6. The structure of the papers has changed

Top 3.5% of pupils nationally achieved a grade 9

7 is anchored to old A

5 is set between B and C

4 is anchored to old C

1 is the old F and G

New maths GCSE

grades

7. There’s a new grading system

8. The assessments will be more demanding – foundation question

More questions involving reasoning and problem solving

8. The assessments will be more demanding – higher question

Maths at QES

• Maths staff in the junior hall every lunchtime• Pupils issued with notebooks to help focus and revision• Pupils issued with revision workbooks• Programme of past paper revision• Weekly lunchtime revision classes with timetable of

topics linked to revision workbook• Extra mock exam after Easter of year 11• After school revision class• Mathswatch as well as Mymaths for independent

revision

Number

Fractions - division video practice practice_answers textbook_exercise

Powers video practice practice_answers textbook_exercise

Percentages of video practice practice_answers

textbook_exercise

textbook_answers

Increase by a percentage video practice practice_answers

Proportional reasoning practice practice_answers

Standard form video practice practice_answers textbook_exercise

Dividing in given ratio video practice practice-answers textbook_answers

Ratio given one value video practice practice-answers

Speed distance time video practice practice-answers textbook_exercise

Metric and imperial conversion video practice

Best buys video practice practice_answers

textbook_exercise

textbook_answers

Algebra

Solve a linear inequality video practice practice_answers textbook_exercise

Inequality on a number line video practice practice_answers textbook_exercise

Substitution into a formula video practice practice-answers textbook_exercise

textbook_answers

Geometry

Types of triangle video practice practice_answers textbook_exercise

Angles in a triangle video practice practice_answers textbook_exercise

textbook_answers

Perimeter video perimeter practice-answers

Bearings video practice practice_answers textbook_exercise

Congruent triangles video practice practice_answers textbook_exercise

Transformations - enlargement video practice practice_answers textbook_exercise

Volume of a cuboid video practice practice_answers textbook_exercise

Volume of a sphere video practice practice_answers

Statistics

Simple probability video practice practice_answers

Interpreting a bar chart video practice practice_answers textbook_exercise

Frequency trees u-tube practice practice_answers

Revision lists linked to workbook, resources,websites

Be equipped

set GCSE Entry level

1 Higher level

2 Higher level

3 Foundation level

4 Foundation level

2015 – 2017 year group

42% sat foundation, 58% sat higher level

Grade 2014 2015 2016 2017

9 4

A* 13 21 19 8 19

A 48 47 34 7 24

B 37 49 48 6

5

4

41

57

C 93 83 90 43

D 7 16 13 3 27

E 5 3 1 2 7

F 5 3 51 1

G 1 1 2

Total 210 223 212 223

A* - C 91% 90% 90%

A*/A 29% 30&% 25%

9 – 4 85.2%

9 – 5 65.5%

9 – 7 21.1%

What is the question asking me?

What information do I already have?

What Maths will I be using?

What calculations / working out do I need to do?

How can I check that my answer is correct?

Written Methods

Resilience

Confidence

•Real life situations: shopping, offers, best buys, interest rates, cooking times, bills

•Mental maths: the more automatic responses that pupils can accurately recall the better

•Does their answer make sense? Estimating as a checking strategy is useful

• Know your child’s target grade

• Be positive about maths

• Help them to organise themselves

• Check planner for homework

• Get your child to explain their

reasoning

We need parental maths resilience too!