December 2024 Maths and Statistics Update

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Mon Dec 02 12:29:00 UTC 2024

Dear Colleagues,

As we approach the festive season, I'm reminded of one of my proudest achievements in teaching which was establishing a Maths Advent competition that ran across the whole school thoughout December every year.

Every day, a maths puzzle was set and students could submit their answers into a prize draw with chocolate santas and reindeer being delivered to the lucky winners in form time the next day. The staff even took part with a daily "Maths Champion" being announced who got to wear a very conspicuous gold badge for the day!

It was a lot of fun and I'd greatly encourage anyone to give it a go. It certainly got the whole school talking about maths for the entire month!

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Planning for Y11 intervention

To help you relax fully into the holidays, we've collated some resources that you can print off now so your Y11 intervention is all set up and ready to go when you return in January.

6 week revision programmes

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Our six-week revision programmes have been designed to make use of Pearson’s resources from the Maths Emporium in a structured manner whilst supporting students by providing information about both their strengths and weaknesses.

There are three versions:

The resource pack for each programme includes:

A student guidance document that includes a revision list and a handy weekly checklist to keep them on track throughout their revision.
Six weekly task booklets for students to work through independently that provide opportunities to practice fluency style questions and exam questions. They are organised in a ramped manner to build success and confidence. These are available as questions with mark schemes or as two separate documents so you can choose what to print/send to your students. Each week there is a Bonus task (a past paper of your choice) for students to complete under certain time constraints.
The teacher guidance also includes a checklist to aid you in structuring and organisation, a spreadsheet for scores to be collated that will provide you with performance statistics for some of the completed tasks and links to our themed papers and topic tests to enable you to identify and address areas that need improvement.

"Aiming for" papers

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These are sets of practice papers comprised of questions that students working at the target grade were successful with.

Below are some suggestions for how you could use these with students:

print each paper off as a booklet for students to work on in form time / intervention or as part of 'do now' time at the start of lesson
snip questions to use as part of revision lessons or for retrieval practice starters

Download 'aiming for' papers from the Maths Emporium

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Key dates and deadlines

As always, we have information on key dates and deadlines including details of all training events taking place this month.

Key Dates and Deadlines for December 2024

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Key dates and deadlines for December 2024

2 December - AS Mathematics (8MA0) mock set 3 available on the Maths Emporium and the qualification website. Mock set 4 available under silver padlock.

2 December - GCSE Maths November 2024 worked solutions with student friendly guidance available on the Maths Emporium

3 December - Training event: A Level Further Maths (Core Pure only) Summer 2024 Marking Guidance

3 December - Training event: GCSE Maths Using Performance Data to Identify Areas of Improvement and Deciding Next Steps

10 December - GCSE Maths November 2024 mark schemes available

10 December - Training event: GCSE Statistics Deep Dive into Lower Performing Topcis

11 December - Training event: Maths in Context Summer 2024 Marking Guidance

16 December - GCSE Maths November 2024 printer-friendly papers and mark schemes available on the Maths Emporium

17 December - International GCSE November 2024 mark schemes available

All training events are available to book on the Pearson Professional Development Academy