March 2025 Maths and Statistics Update
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A collection of my favourite revision resources, including ready-made revision programmes, "aiming for" practice papers, revision checklists and examiner top tips.
GCSE (9-1) Mathematics
6 week revision programmes
Looking for a ready-made intervention programme?
Now is the perfect time to start students on one of our 6 week revision programmes.
Each resource pack comes with teacher guidance, student intro pack, weekly task booklets and a tracking spreadsheet to monitor progress.
"Aiming for" practice papers
Re-ordered papers, exemplars and shadow papers
Two of my favourite activities to support exam preparation use these key resources.
10 min Chunks uses the re-ordered papers and helps students to build up resilience and develop a range of exam techniques. Students work on short 10 min chunks of exam questions at a time with a different, clearly defined objective for each 'chunk'.
For example, the objective for the first 10 marks could be "to get full marks or as close to full marks as possible'" Then, as questions ramp in difficulty, a later objective might be "to do the first step for each question", or to "find 5 'can do' marks" from a bigger chunk of harder questions.
In You're The Examiner, students use the exemplar materials to develop a much deeper understanding of the mark schemes and how to break down multi-step problems. After having a go at the question themselves, students work in pairs to mark the exemplar responses and feedback to class. There are lots of opportunity for rich discussion in this activity. A great follow up to consolidate learning is to then get students to attempt the associated shadow question to see if they can now get full marks.
Exemplar Materials powerpoints are available for the June and November 2024 series.
Practice papers by topic
Revision checklists
Top Tips, Command Words and Revision Posters
Pearson Revise Posters for GCSE Maths - Foundation, Common and Higher
Originally developed to support revision of topics new to the course, these posters are a great source of revision for some of the trickiest topics.
AS and A Level Mathematics and Further Mathematics
Papers, papers and more papers!
We know that the key to successful exam preparation is for students to get as much practice as possible working on exam standard questions. That's why, in addition to the usual past papers, we also have a range of other papers for students to practise on.
Exam style questions for Statistics and Mechanics
New for 2025 - brand new topic tests with exam style questions on each of the areas of the 9MA0-31 Statistics and 9MA0-32 Mechanics content
Large Data Set question bank
This question bank consists of all questions covering the large data set in all of the papers including the SAMs, Specimen papers, Mock Sets and exam series up to and including 2024.
Top Tips and Exemplars
Share tips and guidance from the senior examiners with your students with these resources.
Our exemplar powerpoints make for a great exam preparation activity getting students to attempt and mark a question before working together to mark and feedback on the exemplar responses. Consolidate learning from this exercise by getting students to then attempt the associated question from the shadow papers.
3 March - Maths in Context pre-release of source booklet for 2025 exams
6 March - Results issued for Edexcel Awards January 2025 series
21 March - Deadline to submit applications for access arrangements for June 2025 series
21 March - Entry deadline for international qualifications (international centres only)
4 March - GCSE Maths: Deep Dive into AO2 Questions
5 March - A Level Maths: Deep Dive into Problem Solving
26 March - GCSE Statistics: General Revision Guidance and Extended Answers
28 March - Functional Skills: Getting Ready To Teach FS Maths in 2025/26
GCSE (9-1) Mathematics
Upcoming training events
GCSE Maths: Deep Dive into AO2 Questions
4 March 2025, 16:00-17:00 GMT
In this free online event, our credible specialists Christian Seager and Mel Muldowney from JustMaths show how they use student performance data and past exam questions to identify their school/classes strengths and weaknesses for AO2 questions and will discuss what strategies they may undertake based on this data.
They will also showcase teaching ideas that they use in the classroom to make improvements with AO2 questions.
Useful Links
To enhance our teacher support, we have published a GCSE Mathematics FAQ page with answers to some of your most commonly asked questions on a range of topics from calculator guidance to tiering support.
Formulae sheets for 2025 can be accessed using the links below:
You can find information on which formulae do not appear on the formulae sheets but would be provided in the question paper should they be needed in the update below:
Important information on the provision of formulae in GCSE Mathematics
GCSE (9-1) Statistics
Upcoming training event
GCSE Statistics: General Revision Guidance and Extended Answers
26 March 2025
16:00 - 17:00 GMT
In this free online event, our credible specialist Mel Muldowney from JustMaths shares how you can use Pearson resources more effectively in the lead up to the Summer exams and gives her top tips for students when approaching exam questions that require an extended answer.
GCSE Statistics shadow papers
Shadow papers for the June 2024 series of GCSE Statistics are now available!
These papers are a valuable source of additional assessment material that have the added benefits of being unseen by students and able to be reliably used with the June 2024 grade boundaries.
You could use these shadow papers as a full set of papers to run an additional set of mock exams, or as an additional set of 'past papers' for students to complete in class or at home.
Alternately, you may wish to use them in class to consolidate learning and assess progress made since a previous mock. Below are a couple of suggestions for how you could do this:
- Using QLA from previous mocks, identify individual questions/topics for improvement and provide targeted support and practice (e.g. using themed practice papers). Follow up with students completing the associated shadow questions under exam conditions to assess their progress.
- Use the Exemplar Materials to review original questions, mark schemes and examiner comments before students mark and discuss the exemplar responses. Once this activity is complete, consolidate learning by getting students to attempt the associated shadow question.Incorporate shadow questions into revision lessons and retrieval practice in the lead up to exams.
Level 2 Extended Mathematics Certificate
New resources - shadow papers and exemplar materials for Specimen Papers Set 1
You can access shadow versions of the specimen papers and powerpoint exemplar materials using the links below:
Guidance for a Pass grade for Summer 2025 exams
Our guidance for a Pass grade for Level 2 Extended Maths certificate Summer 2025
The skills required to achieve a Pass grade for Level 2 Extended Mathematics Certificate are broadly aligned with those required for a grade 7 standard in GCSE (9-1) Mathematics. These are applicable for the areas of Mathematics that are being extended in the Level 2 Extended Maths Certificate.
Students working at a ‘Pass’ level will be able to perform single and multi-step procedures accurately by recalling, applying and interpreting notation, terminology, facts, definitions and formulae. They will also be able to generate strategies to solve mathematical problems by translating them into a series of processes.
A typical Level 2 Extended Maths Certificate Pass grade student will be able to demonstrate a range of mathematical skills which may include examples from the following non-exhaustive list:
Over the coming months, we'll be continuing to work with our Senior Examining team to provide as much detail as we can in the form of grade descriptors for a Pass grade as well as for a Merit, Distinction and Distinction* level.
Upcoming training event
Level 2 Extended Maths Certificate: Exam preparation and revision
3 April 2025
16:00 - 17:00 GMT
In this session, Nicola Woodford-Smith will share tips on preparing your students for the first examination series of this brand new qualification. Highlights will include using key resources to help support revision including some new materials.
Useful links
To enhance our teacher support, we have published a Level 2 Extended Maths Certificate FAQ page with answers to some of your most commonly asked questions about this qualification.
The formulae sheet for the 2025 Level 2 Extended Mathematics Certificate exams is now available to download from the website.
Level 2 Extended Maths Certificate: Formulae Sheet
Students will be provided with the formula for the Trapezium Rule in the body of the question should it be needed.
AS/A Level Mathematics and Further Mathematics
Upcoming training events
A Level Maths: Deep Dive into Problem Solving
5 March 2025
16:00 - 17:00 GMT
In this free online session we will take a deep dive to understand how problem solving is assessed across A Level Maths. We will look in detail at some problem solving questions and the challenges that these present to students.
The key focus of the session will be to look at practical teaching tips to support development of problem solving skills and how Pearson resources can be used with students in the classroom to support this, including a new PowerPoint resource of pure maths modelling questions by topic that will be released to accompany the event.
New topic tests for Decision 2 (9FM0 - 4D)
Topic tests with brand new questions, reviewed by the Chief Examiner.
These new topic tests cover the following two topics for Decision 2, which are not covered by the legacy specification:
- Recurrence relations
- Decision analysis
We want to hear from you
We want to hear your views on the existing A level Maths & Further Maths qualifications to see how we can see how we can improve our qualifications and support and to inform planning for any potential reform.
You can access our short survey using the link below.
A level Maths and Further Maths Qualifications Survey 2024/25
Useful Links
To enhance our teacher support, we have published an A Level Mathematics FAQ page with answers to some of your most commonly asked questions.
Go to AS and A Level Mathematics FAQs
You can access the Formulae Booklet and Statistical Tables using the link below:
A Level Statistics
Updated Scheme of Work
An updated Scheme of Work for A Level Statistics is in the final stages of production and will be available on the Maths Emporium from 26 March.
Keep an eye on the Maths Emporium social feed
and Edexcel Statistics Facebook group
to ensure you are notified as soon as this new resource becomes available.
Advanced Extension Award
What is the Advanced Extension Award (AEA)?
The aims and objectives of the AEA qualification are to:
- challenge the most able advanced level students by giving them opportunities to demonstrate a greater depth of understanding, analysis, evaluation and problem solving than that required at GCE Advanced level with no additional study or learning required
- be accessible to all able students studying for GCE Advanced Level in Mathematics
- help differentiate between the most able students, particularly in subjects with a high proportion of A grades at GCE Advanced Level in Mathematics.
Getting Started Guide
Our handy Getting Started Guide includes links to the key resources to help you getting started with teaching this qualification.
Maths in Context (Level 3 Core Maths)
Pre-release of source booklet for 2025 exams
The pre-release material for 7MC0 Mathematics in Context (Level 3 Core Maths) is available to download from the website from Monday 3rd March 2025.
From the 2025 exam series onwards the pre-release material will be issued on or around 3rd March each year. This change has been made to ensure that there is adequate preparation time in advance of the examinations.
You can access the source booklet under Exam Materials using the link below:
Source booklet supporting document
A supporting document to support teaching of the material from the 2025 source booklet will be available on the Maths Emporium from Friday 7th March.
The supporting document gives the tables from the pre-release document in Excel format for teachers to use with their students. These are intended for classroom use only.
Free support sessions from AMSP
Did you know that the AMSP run free discussion meetings on the pre-release material for 7MC0 Mathematics in Context?
Please see details below of their upcoming sessions.
March 10 (14.00 to 16.00): event details
March 18 (16.00 to 18.00): event details
International qualifications
Entry Deadline for June 2025 Series - International Centres only
A reminder that the entry deadline for the June 2025 exam series for iPrimary, iLowerSecondary, International GCSE and IAL is Friday 21st March 2025.
Late fees will be charged from 22nd March 2025.
Please see our Key Dates section on our website for further information.
New Sample Assessment Materials for International GCSE Maths A Modular (Higher Tier)
The Pearson Maths have some EXCITING NEWS that I know a lot of centres have been waiting for….The International GCSE Maths A Modular Extra Sample Assessment Materials for the Higher Tier are now published and LIVE on the website.
You can access these resources under specimen paper and mark scheme using the link below. They are under padlock so that teachers can use these as mocks with their students. Foundation Tier to follow (hopefully next week).
Functional Skills
New Exemplification document for Functional Skills Maths Level 1 & 2
An essential reference document for anyone delivering Functional Skills Maths at Level 1 or 2.
This document provides exemplification of how each content point may be assessed on both the non-calculator and calculator sections of the assessment, along with useful comments to aid you in preparing students to sit the assessments.
The document covers all content for Levels 1 and 2.
You can access the full document using the link below:
Functional Skills Bitesize Webinars
This month we will be introducing a new series of support webinars for our Functional Skills qualifications.
Starting in February 2025, we have launched a new YouTube playlist for Functional Skills that will focus on shorter webinars across the following four topics:
- Ask The Examiner
- You Are The Assessor
- Teaching The Fundamentals
- Resource Review
You can access this playlist using the link below:
Upcoming training events
We have a range of upcoming training events to support schools in delivering Functional Skills Maths:
28 March - Getting Ready to Teach Functional Skills Maths in 2025/26
28 April - Teaching The Fundamentals, Functional Skills Maths Level 1
2 May - Teaching The Fundamentals, Functional Skills Maths Level 2
9 May - Standardising Entry Level Functional Skills Maths
FAQs
A reminder that you can find all answers to the most commonly asked questions about Functional Skills on our FAQ page.
All resources to support the teaching of Functional Skills Mathematics can be found on our resources page and accessed using the link below.
Edexcel Awards in Mathematics
All resources to support the teaching of the Edexcel Awards can be found under the qualification cabinet on the Maths Emporium and accessed using the link below.
Entry Level Certificate
FAQs
A reminder that you can find all answers to the most commonly asked questions about Entry Level Certificate on our FAQ page.
All resources to support the teaching of Entry Level Certificate can be found under the qualification cabinet on the Maths Emporium and accessed using the link below.
The provisional timetables for Summer 2026 are available on our provisional timetables web page:
Provisional timetables | Pearson qualifications
The feedback window will run until Friday 21st March. Please send any feedback to timetables@pearson.com.
A selection of transition videos designed to help make the switch from GTX/EX models to the new CW series.
The intended audience and use for these videos are:
- For Teachers and Students looking for support on their calculator
- For Teachers to be able to show these videos in class as part of lessons
Tax Facts - free teaching resources from HMRC
Planning to teach tax skills as part of a maths lesson? Tax Facts, HMRC’s free education programme, is here to help.
Teachers can download free ready-to-go resources, designed to give students aged 14 to 17 a practical introduction to the tax system. This includes a full lesson plan that links in with PSHE education, as well as a delivery guide, videos, and activities. There is also a new Quick Answer Sheet to help you answer any questions pupils may have.
An HMRC member of staff can also visit your school to help run the session, which counts towards career guidance goals – such as Gatsby benchmarks.
Find out more and access the free lesson resources on the HMRC website using the link below:
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Best regards
Vicky Wood
Subject Advisor for Maths and Statistics (UK)
Subject advisor
Vicky Wood
Mathematics and Statistics - UK centres
