A place to share some of the resources I have made for Computer Science and Maths. Primarily focused on assessment and curriculum resources for GCSE Computer Science where I feel there is a shortage of good quality material available.
A place to share some of the resources I have made for Computer Science and Maths. Primarily focused on assessment and curriculum resources for GCSE Computer Science where I feel there is a shortage of good quality material available.
This is a collection of applied questions for the topic of powers and roots. The questions are designed to emphasise student understanding by identifying misconceptions and explaining their answers. Also has questions applying in a geometric context. The worksheet is A5 so can fit 2 to a page to save printing and fit better in student books.
Was designed for high ability year 7 group, but could be used for any year groups up from this up to GCSE.
Full answers provided.
This is a collection of applied questions for the topic of lowest common multiple and highest common factors. Has questions applying to worded contexts. The worksheet is A5 so can fit 2 to a page to save printing and fit better in student books.
Was designed for high ability year 7 group, but could be used for any year groups up from this up to GCSE.
Full answers provided.
This is a collection of applied questions for the topic of collecting like terms. Has questions applying the main topic to geometric, worded and fractional context. The worksheet is A5 so can fit 2 to a page to save printing and fit better in student books.
Was designed for high ability year 7 group, but could be used for any year groups up from this up to GCSE.
Full answers provided.
This is a Maths / STEM project lesson designed around students starting a wholesale business in either the fashion or technology industry. Students will be expected to create a brand, calculate costs and work out profit for their potential business. Feedback from running this lesson in the past has been extremely positive from students, with most excited by the idea of starting their own business, and appreciating the massive role maths would have in this. They will have to make several key decisions including deciding on whether to import or produce and how many products to order based on demand.
Throughout the lesson, students will have to calculate the optimal business model by calculating potential profits based on a given formula. They will also need to carry out several financial calculations, before presenting back to the class.
This was designed for year 10 students, but could be used in other years. The main idea was to promote maths in context, as well as to increase understanding of maths involved in business.
This is a Maths/STEM project lesson based around calculating and comparing the density of different metals. Students have to first calculate and rank the densities of the metals, than answer questions based on combining different ratios of metals. These questions involve working out density, volume or mass from compound metal alloys of differing ratios.
The lesson was pitched at year 10, and has a support sheet to enable access for foundation students. The lesson was designed to last 75 minutes, but actually the difficult quesitons in the sheet means it could easily last 90 minutes or more if required.
This is a project lesson for 50 - 75 minutes based around interpreting data, understanding proportions, calculating percentages and statistical enquiry. The theme of this lesson is to emphasise the importance of data analysis in varied fields of life, and includes three specifically designed data sets based around sports, performance and financial analysis.
Students will have to answer a series of questions related to the 3 data sets to help prepare them to write a mini report detailing their findings.
These questions and level of data analysis are similar to what many companies use as the basis of their graduate recruitment maths tests, with candidates expected to interpret data in different forms and draw correct conclusions based on sound explanations.
Having ran this session multiple times, students are very engaged with the content and like seeing how maths will be used in real work places. It could be done in classes, or as a larger scale event. I usually run it as a carousel, with different data sets on each table and getting students to rotate around, but again delivery is flexible.
The 3 data sets are:
Sports Analysis - Wiltshire Wanderers. Students have to evaluate player performance over a season by working out things such as number of goals scored per game.
Financial Analysis - Netdrive Sales. Students have to evaluate sales performance of 4 products, calculating things such as most profitable periods, profit per item and percentage profit.
Performance Analysis - Silent Night Hotels. Students look at the performance of various hotels in a fictional chain and pick out positives and negatives of each one.
This is an activity lesson I made to promote STEM / Computing / Maths.
The activity involves 3 activities linking maths and computing. The first looks at potential roles involving STEM and is designed to raise awareness and aspirations for students. This is a card matchup that I printed out and cut up for students to try to match. The second looks at Boolean logic and logic circuits. The final activity involves the use of Formulae and Pythagoras in calculating damage in a video game. There is a worksheet for this activity too.
It is designed to last around an hour.
It was originally pitched for year 9 students, but would be suitable for 8 and 10.
Comes with a powerpoint with key instructions and questions, along with 2 activity sheets.
This is an activity lesson I made to promote STEM / Computing / Maths.
The activity involves 3 festive themed activites with links to STEM/Computing/Maths. In the first, students look at flowcharts to represent the workflow at the northpole. In the second, students write basic code to navigate a grid and in the final activity students use binary strings to construct Christmas bitmap images.
It is designed to last around an hour.
It was originally pitched for year 7 students, but would be suitable for 8 and 9.
Comes with a powerpoint with key instructions and questions, along with a worksheet for the final activity.
This is an activity lesson I made to promote STEM / Computing / Maths.
The activity involves the students working in groups to design, market and calculate costings for their own smartphones.
It is a highly engaging activity getting students thinking about the key aspects including engineering decisions, financial calculations and helps develop managerial skills.
Content includes choosing components for their phones, branding it, choosing materials, creating scale drawings, creating a promotional poster and presenting back to the class. It could easily be used as a whole year group event in a hall or similar venue, or on a smaller scale in lessons.
It was originally pitched for year 9 students, but would be suitable for 8 and 10, and high ability year 7s.
Comes with a powerpoint with key instructions, but focuses around the pack of worksheets which I print 2 to a page and give out 1 between 4.
These are two worksheets I use to teach binary numbers, including understanding, place value and conversions to and from decimal numbers. One is more of a conceptual understanding, and the other is a consolidation sheet of conversions both ways.
Thanks,
Toby
This is a collection of module quizzes covering key content that is assessed in paper 1 of the new specification GCSE. I will be using these as a final push for my current year 11s in the run up to the final exam. They are specifically designed for AQA 8520 spec, but content is also suitable for OCR and other boards.
In total there are 4 double page module quizzes, along with answers to each. The key topics are: Computational Thinking, Programming Basics (Pseudocode/flowcharts), Development and Testing and advanced programming (subroutines etc.)
There are questions covering the vast majority of the specification, but these are in no way intended to be exhaustive.
The question style features exam style questions, along with question types designed to prompt recall and understanding.
Full answers are provided for each quiz.
Note: These module quizzes can be obtained individually, or as a complete package, in my TES shop. If you have already purchased any module quizzes, or if you want topics spanning both paper 1 and 2, it may be better to buy the others instead.
Hope these help.
Thanks,
Toby Watkins
This is a collection of module quizzes covering key content that is assessed in paper 2 of the new specification GCSE. I will be using these as a final push for my current year 11s in the run up to the final exam. They are specifically designed for AQA 8520 spec, but content is also suitable for OCR and other boards.
In total there are 5 double page module quizzes, along with answers to each. The key topics are: Data Representation, Computer System (hardware/software), Networks, Binary Shifts/Arithmetic and Ethical, legal and Environmental impact.
There are questions covering the vast majority of the specification, but these are in no way intended to be exhaustive.
The question style features exam style questions, along with question types designed to prompt recall and understanding.
Full answers are provided for each quiz.
Note: These module quizzes can be obtained individually, or as a complete package, in my TES shop. If you have already purchased any module quizzes, or if you want topics spanning both paper 1 and 2, it may be better to buy the others instead.
Hope these help.
Thanks,
Toby Watkins
This is a combined document including knowledge organisers, module quizzes and solutions for all of the main Computer Science content. I am using this as a “last-minute” revision pack for my year 11s, but could also be used throughout the year to aid learning and understanding.
It is the best value way of purchasing all of my painstakingly organisers and quizzes. If you have already bought either my knowledge organisers or module quizzes and are looking for the other, please don’t buy this. Full packs of knowledge organisers and module quizzes are available separately as bundles.
It has been designed to be printed as a stapled booklet, with students using the knowledge organisers to help them learn for the quizzes, before checking their work with the solutions. Alternatively, you could print select pages.
These are available individually for a total of £36, so a saving of £8 by buying the full set here.
This is a module summary quiz on the topic of Ethical, Legal and Environmental Impact. Includes questions on legal issues, environmental impact and some larger scale ethics consideration questions. The assessment features a range of question types and includes full worked solutions and answers. I print these 2 to a page and use them as a low stakes quiz at the end of a module. I will also be reusing them as a revision resource for my year 11s.
These module quizzes are linked to the Knowledge Organisers I have also made and are available on TES. Most of the content is featured on the similarly named organiser, but would still be more than suitable without the use of the organisers.
Any questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Toby Watkins
This is a collection of my module quizzes - a series of exam style questions and key knowledge/skill checks for each of the main Computer Science topic.
Questions are applicable to all exam boards including AQA and OCR.
All module quizzes come with full answers provided.
I print these 2 to a page and use them both for end of topic assessments for current year 10, and exam revision for year 11.
This is a module summary quiz on the topic of Binary Calculations. Includes questions on binary arithmetic, shifts and data overflow errors. The assessment features a range of question types and includes full worked solutions and answers. I print these 2 to a page and use them as a low stakes quiz at the end of a module. I will also be reusing them as a revision resource for my year 11s.
These module quizzes are linked to the Knowledge Organisers I have also made and are available on TES. Most of the content is featured on the similarly named organiser, but would still be more than suitable without the use of the organisers.
Any questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Toby Watkins
This is a module summary quiz on the topic of Advanced Programming. Includes questions on data structures, subroutines and understanding code. The assessment features a range of question types and includes full worked solutions and answers. I print these 2 to a page and use them as a low stakes quiz at the end of a module. I will also be reusing them as a revision resource for my year 11s.
These module quizzes are linked to the Knowledge Organisers I have also made and are available on TES. Most of the content is featured on the similarly named organiser, but would still be more than suitable without the use of the organisers.
Any questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Toby Watkins
This is a module summary quiz on the topic of Networks and cyber security. Includes questions on types of networks, topologies, protocols, cyber security and cyber threats. The assessment features a range of question types and includes full worked solutions and answers. I print these 2 to a page and use them as a low stakes quiz at the end of a module. I will also be reusing them as a revision resource for my year 11s.
These module quizzes are linked to the Knowledge Organisers I have also made and are available on TES. Most of the content is featured on the similarly named organiser, but would still be more than suitable without the use of the organisers.
Any questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Toby Watkins
This is a module summary quiz on the topic of Development, Testing and Errors. Includes question on trace tables, along with unit testing vs system testing. The assessment features a range of question types and includes full worked solutions and answers. I print these 2 to a page and use them as a low stakes quiz at the end of a module. I will also be reusing them as a revision resource for my year 11s.
These module quizzes are linked to the Knowledge Organisers I have also made and are available on TES. Most of the content is featured on the similarly named organiser, but would still be more than suitable without the use of the organisers.
Any questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Toby Watkins
This is a module summary quiz on the topic of the Computer System, including Hardware and Software. The assessment features a range of question types and includes full worked solutions and answers. I print these 2 to a page and use them as a low stakes quiz at the end of a module. I will also be reusing them as a revision resource for my year 11s.
These module quizzes are linked to the Knowledge Organisers I have also made and are available on TES. Most of the content is featured on the similarly named organiser, but would still be more than suitable without the use of the organisers.
Any questions, please feel free to ask.
Thanks,
Toby Watkins