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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 take
• 6. The structure of the papers has changed
• 7. There’s a new grading system
• 8. The assessments will be 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% of pupils who currently get an A* will achieve a 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

• Devised a 7- 11 scheme of learning
• Building new content into the curriculum eg Venn

diagrams, function notation….

• Rewritten all the internal exams at KS3 and KS4
• Back to basics with numeracy skills
• Pupils issued with notebooks to help focus and revision
• Constantly reviewing what we do and how we do it.
• 90% A* - C for the last 3 years

Maths at QES

Written Methods

Be equipped

What can you do to help?

Be positive ‘I was never very good at Maths…’

• Talk about numbers
• 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

• 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

Resilience

Confidence