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Tim Silvester’s Maths Resources

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I have written a range of free and premium resources to assess and develop student understanding and to help students to prepare for examinations. My homework resources cover a broad range of the curriculum and they are carefully written and presented to be both professional and effective in aiding student progress. All assignments have answer papers provided and monitoring documents are available to record and analyse student performance.

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I have written a range of free and premium resources to assess and develop student understanding and to help students to prepare for examinations. My homework resources cover a broad range of the curriculum and they are carefully written and presented to be both professional and effective in aiding student progress. All assignments have answer papers provided and monitoring documents are available to record and analyse student performance.
Maths: 12 Foundation and Higher Geometry homework or revision papers for 14 to 16 year olds
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Maths: 12 Foundation and Higher Geometry homework or revision papers for 14 to 16 year olds

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This is a series of 12 differentiated homework or revision resources. They are designed to be used in conjunction with my excel, 'Monitoring' document which allows for all results from the Statistics, Pure and Geometry series to be recorded. There are two versions of each assignment, Foundation (for low to middle ability students) and Higher (for middle to high ability students). They are designed for the new GCSE specification in the UK, and would suit any students within the same age range in other countries. This third series focuses on Geometry and Algebra. They are easy to mark and provide excellent feedback (the monitoring document allows for results in key topic areas to be analysed, as well as progression as students improve their knowledge and understanding. These assignments have led to sustained improvement of Mathematics results in the College in which the author teaches with students excelling at every ability range.
Number and Algebra Learning Plans
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Number and Algebra Learning Plans

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These documents provide detailed teaching pedagogy for the majority Number and Algebra topics taught to ages 11 to 16. They specify key learning objectives, and explain how to develop 'first principle' understanding by ensuring all techniques and methods follow a consistent explanation. Division, as an example, can be applied with absolute consistency to all areas of Pure Mathematics; avoiding tricks and teaching a pure understanding of the meaning of "divide by" as opposed to "divide into" and the need to ensure terms have the same denomination is paramount to securing long term understanding.
Geometry Learning Plans
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Geometry Learning Plans

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These documents provide detailed teaching pedagogy for Shape, Space and Measure topics taught from ages 11 to 16. They provide learning objectives and explanations of how to approach topics from first principles to secure long term understanding, and to avoid teaching tricks! Area, for example, is commonly associated with length times width, without developing a pure understanding of what area actually means.
Statistics Learning Plans
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Statistics Learning Plans

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These documents provide teaching pedagogy for the majority of Statistics topics taught to ages 11 to 16. They explain first principle approaches to teaching Statistics to ensure long term understanding and to avoid the use of tricks! The mean, for example, is commonly taught as a method (sum the values and divide by the frequency), without exploring the impact of 'making the values all equal in size' and how this relates as an average (or means to describe or quantify "middleness").
Mathematics Help Booklet
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Mathematics Help Booklet

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This booklet comprises 55 pages of information and support; each page focuses on a different Maths topic area and it provides the means for students to independently research when they need support. The majority of topics studied up to age 16 are included. They provide a summary of each chapter of the learning plans that I have also written for Number and Algebra, Statistics and Geometry.
Mathematics Ages 11 to 14 worksheets
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Mathematics Ages 11 to 14 worksheets

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This bundle comprises the summary worksheets that we use to formatively assess our students aged 11 to 14 on the content of our Scheme of Learning for years 7 to 8. I have included a baseline assessment which has been written in a bespoke fashion in the style of the old SAT papers, aimed at 10 to 11 year olds.
Maths GCSE revision and practice
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Maths GCSE revision and practice

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These write-on resources are accompanied by full solutions and provide a wealth of Mathematics practice questions. The pack also includes a Maths Help Booklet for students to research specific topic areas and my excel document providing access to Maths video tutorials covering the whole GCSE syllabus.
Probability homework or revision resource
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Probability homework or revision resource

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This resource is accompanied by an answer document. It is aimed at students who have been taught probability and relative frequency. The questions include a wide range of contexts (with Venn diagrams, pie charts and various other diagrams requiring correct interpretation to derive relative frequency) and challenge students to calculate simple probabilities, and probabilities for dependent and independent events. A grading system based on the new GCSE specification is suggested, but this resource would be equally useful in the US. The paper can be printed onto a single A3 folded sheet and there are a total of 60 marks. It can be used as a homework or a revision resource, or to assess general understanding at the end of the topic with plenty of extension and differentiated content available.
Prime Factor Decomposition
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Prime Factor Decomposition

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A series of worksheets to provide practice for prime factor decomposition, writing values as products of prime factors, using decomposition to understand properties of square numbers and cube numbers, decompose algebraic terms, and apply decomposition to the process of finding HCF and LCM. This can be used in conjunction with my 'Steps for Success' document and the section on 'Factors and Multiples' in that document.