This is a complete SoW mainly aimed at resit students in FE environment, though the resources are very versatile and could easily fit into any Maths GCSE SoW. Our whole department has come together to create this SoW throughout the year and we are very proud of it. There are things we plan on tweaking and improving for next year for sure, but it has been very successful and we hope for some excellent grades in Summer! There are a whopping total of 36 lessons with all resources included, all for free! Many have been made from scratch though here and there you will see influence from sources such as Pixi Maths (Amazing). There are 6 assessment available separately from my shop. There are some recurring themes through the lessons such as a 1-10 starter (10 quick questions based on simple 1 mark GCSE questions and encouraging good memory of core topics), differentiated resources and a good mix of strategies including the odd game and video. Update 25/02/2022 To be released at some point over the next few months is a massive update and overhaul version of this scheme of work that was developed over lockdown and this year. I will release a few lessons for free, the whole scheme of work will be a paid for resource.

These are the 6 Assessments that run in tandem with the ‘1 Year SoW GCSE Maths Foundation for Edexcel 9-1 - Including all lessons & resources!’ available in my shop (free). There are 6 assessments: an initial baseline test, 2 Progress Tests (mainly based on recent learning) and then 3 Mock Papers. I have decided to keep these resources free partly because we are planning on re-designing a couple of the tests for this year anyway. If you use them please bear in mind we found that Progress Test 1 and to a certain extent Progress Test 2 appear to be a bit easier than intended so you may need to raise the grade boundaries for them.

Here are the lessons I have made so far that run alongside the ‘Edexcel Level 3 Maths in Context Project Book’ for Core Maths. There is one PPoint for each Investigation in the textbook from Chapters 1-4. Answers also cropped in from the free to download answers PDF for the textbook. Chapters 5-8 available in my shop.

In this resource are 6 homeworks of varied past exam paper questions. Each have a front cover sheet indicating the question category, description and number of marks allowing for easy tracking and gap analysis for both teacher and student. Each homework comes with markscheme and scanned written solutions. These homeworks were designed to run alongside the 1 Year SoW GCSE Maths Foundation for Edexcel 9-1 already uploaded to TES (see my shop). But they are perfect stand-alone homework resources as well.

As promised here are the other lessons I have made that run alongside the ‘Edexcel Level 3 Maths in Context Project Book’ for Core Maths. There is one PPoint for each Investigation in the textbook from Chapters 5-8. Answers to the textbook questions were available for free here on Pearson’s website, but I think may have been removed. Please feel free to contact me if you need them. Unfortunately as it currently stands I am not teaching CORE maths in the coming year, therefore time that I was going to spend brushing these resources up and putting together the last few chapters will need to be used for other things. Apologies therefore if there are mistakes in these resources or they are a bit lacking in comparison to the previous ones. Do note that I haven’t given up altogether on these resources, I still plan on tidying these up and improving them and releasing resources for Ch9-12 in the future.

Something a little bit different for an end of term lesson maybe. Students must have internet access for this task. The idea being they use the internet as a resource to try and find answers to all the questions, it is a hunt so teachers should not give anything away, rather point towards a good potential source of information or keywords to ‘google’. I usually ask students to compile their answers in Microsoft Word or similar and email them to me after the lesson so I can find a winner. Question Topics: Famous Mathematicians, Famous Numbers, Famous Objects, People & their work, Mathematical Dates, Phrases, Symbols, Inventions and a bonus round. If pupils answer every question the task can easily take up to and over an hour to complete fully.

Our students found this useful for revision. Once a paper is complete and marked they can identify topics that they need to work on and improve. Equally, if using a paper for revision, students can quickly navigate to the topics they need to focus on first. If you want written solutions to these papers then see my other upload in my shop.

Scanned PDFs of the GCSE Maths Foundation Specimen Papers produced by Edexcel for the 9-1 release. These papers also have my own design front page rather than the Edexcel version. If you just want these papers without the solutions you will find this in my shop. Our students found these useful for revision. Once a paper is complete and marked they can identify topics that they need to work on and improve. Equally, if using a paper for revision, students can quickly navigate to the topics they need to focus on first.

In this project students take a leading role designing a new school building to be placed somewhere on their existing school site. The project is split into 6 parts: Initial designs, Final design, Material costing, Labour costing, Fittings Costing and Summary/Presentation. There is a PowerPoint that explains the entire project and a word document with as many of the likely costs that I have managed to think of. I ran this last year and it was very successful, I have made a few tweaks since. You will need to change the google maps image of my school to your own school, but that is all. My students completed the project partly on A3 and partly on Laptops. Mathmetical content involved is Area, Perimeter, Scale Drawing, Unit Conversion and Finance. Though many pupils can extend into things like Pythagoras and Trigonometry if their final design is fairly advanced/in-depth enabling the project to work across KS3 and KS4.

This is a free sample version of the full game that can be found in my author page. (Direct > https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12680052) In the full version: Get your students a device and set them free on this GCSE Maths ‘escape room’ (which actually has multiple rooms). There are 7 levels, each level has a puzzle and a challenge. The puzzle is not particularly Maths related; the challenges are. This escape room is based around Number (future ones planned around other key areas…), topics covered in the challenges are: Times tables Long multiplication/division & checking answers Definitions (crossword) Equivalent fractions Percentage of amount Adding & Subtracting with negatives Currency conversion There is also a ‘bonus’ at the end which allows a student to catch up if they forgot to write down some key elements whilst moving through the game, this has another 7 Maths questions. Questions are all pitched around GCSE foundation level. I hope students (and maybe teachers) will find this fun, it would be a good light-hearted revision lesson or end of term lesson. I imagine most classes will take around an hour completing the game. If they finish early, they could be encouraged to think about designing their own. There is a ‘login’ on slide 1 which allows teachers to jump to the different levels in one-click with the password.

I have found the 1957 O Level Maths Papers produced by the University of London, and put them into a nice A3 display size with an ‘old paper texture’ feel. These could be used in class as some interesting extra practice, or as a display on your walls (like mine). There are 10 A3 portrait pages that cover all the different Pure Maths Papers for 1957 including ‘Arithmetic & Trigonometry’, ‘Algebra’, ‘Geometry’ and ‘History of Mathematics’.

Scanned PDFs of my written solutions to the Practice Materials released by Edexcel to support teaching Level 3 CORE Maths in Context. You can download the Practice Materials here from the Pearson website, unfortunately TES does not allow me to give a direct link here. These practice materials are a great help, particularly with a current lack of past paper content available due to this being such a new course.

Department budget pushed? Reduce your printing bill by up to 75% with these re-configured past papers intended to be printed as A5 booklets. They function as question papers, pupils write their answers on separate paper or in their books. There are 16 past papers in total: 6 of the new specimen papers from the 1-9 syllabus and 10 from the old A*-E syllabus. I have found the old papers helpful in working on pupil’s skill base, before then pushing them onto the new papers.

Department budget pushed? Reduce your printing bill by up to 75% with these re-configured past papers intended to be printed as A5 booklets. They function as question papers, pupils write their answers on separate paper or in their books. There are 14 past papers in total: 6 of the new specimen papers from the 1-9 syllabus and 8 from the old A*-E syllabus. I have found the old papers helpful in working on pupil’s skill base, before then pushing them onto the new papers.

A complete set of assessments for all Pure and Applied YEAR 1 chapters in the Pearson Edexcel textbook. Note that for the Applied chapters, I have grouped some together, this was due to both the material being quite small and time-management (i.e. trying to complete the course in time). Questions are sourced from a variety of topics but mainly past paper questions and questions from the reviews and mixed exercises in the textbook. Solutions are written by me and complete. Mark schemes are ‘partial’, in that where a question is sourced from past papers I have put the mark scheme at the end of the paper. Where the question is from the textbook, I have just put a reference to find the question. In the first couple of tests for Pure there are a few missing a reference as I had not decided on a system when creating them and cannot now find where they are from! I will be working on the Year 2 assessments through the academic year 24/25 so will be complete for the year 25/26.

Get your students a device and set them free on this GCSE Maths ‘escape room’ (which actually has multiple rooms). There are 7 levels, each level has a puzzle and a challenge. The puzzle is not particularly Maths related; the challenges are. This escape room is based around Number (future ones planned around other key areas…), topics covered in the challenges are: Times tables Long multiplication/division & checking answers Definitions (crossword) Equivalent fractions Percentage of amount Adding & Subtracting with negatives Currency conversion There is also a ‘bonus’ at the end which allows a student to catch up if they forgot to write down some key elements whilst moving through the game, this has another 7 Maths questions. Questions are all pitched around GCSE foundation level. I hope students (and maybe teachers) will find this fun, it would be a good light-hearted revision lesson or end of term lesson. I imagine most classes will take around an hour completing the game. If they finish early, they could be encouraged to think about designing their own. There is a ‘login’ on slide 1 which allows teachers to jump to the different levels in one-click with the password. Free sample version available on my author page to try before you buy (or direct > https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-12680055)

COMPLETE BUNDLE Since starting the new 9-1 Maths course using the Pearson Higher Textbook (‘Practice, Reasoning and Problem solving Book’) I have been creating these Revision/Consolidation worksheets for my students to revise for end of chapter tests. They have proved very successful and so I have taken the time to pack them all together and provide answers in this bundle resource. Each worksheet is double sided taking about a lesson to complete covering the key skills from each Chapter. They follow the same Scheme as the Pearson textbook but could easily be used more generally, particularly as revision near the end of the year. This resource compiles the two previous resources I had produced covering Chapters 1-8 and Chapters 9-19 respectively. Those resources were each priced at £2, this I am pricing at £3 so that you can save money buying this resource rather than both separately if you wish. So included in this resource are: Chapter 1- Number, Chapter 2 - Algebra, Chapter 3 - Interpreting and representing data, Chapter 4 - Fractions, ratio and percentages, Chapter 5 - Angles and trigonometry, Chapter 6 - Graphs, Chapter 7 - Area and Volume, Chapter 8 - Transformations and Constructions, Chapter 9 - Equations & Inequalities, Chapter 10 - Probability, Chapter 11 - Multiplicative Reasoning, Chapter 12 - Similarity & Congruence, Chapter 13 - More Trigonometry, Chapter 14 - Further Statistics, Chapter 15 - Equations & Graphs, Chapter 16 - Circle Theorems, Chapter 17 - More Algebra, Chapter 18 - Vectors & Geometric Proof, Chapter 19 - Proportion & Graphs. Effectively you are getting a consolidation worksheet for every chapter in a Maths GCSE Higher Textbook for £3 that you can copy and use until your heart’s content representing superb value in my humble opinion ;-p

This resource was originally created for the Summer 2022 exam series. I took the EDUQAS Foundation topic list and provided example questions for each specific topic. Obviously advanced information is now not available for exams, however, I think this resource is still a highly useful collection of questions organised by both topic and paper as well as suggesting difficulty ratings. Students can use this to help prepare for their exams. Although this document was specific to the EDUQAS exam board, note that the EDUQAS, Edexcel, AQA, OCR GCSE Maths exam board syllabus’ are very similar, so would certainly still be highly relevant for each. File attached as PDF and Word for flexibility of use. Update Answers now also included and a couple of minor errors corrected.

Here is a complete workbook of Grade 4 topics for GCSE Maths. Answers also included. I created this for my classes this year as they are mixed ability within foundation GCSE. I also made an aiming at grade 2 and aiming at grade 3 workbooks that I will hopefully also upload. They are great for all general work, classwork, homework, revision. To decide on the topics I did some brief analysis of recent papers and what topics came up compared to marks needed for a grade 4. If students are confident on the majority of the topics in this workbook, then they should be able to achieve a grade 4. Note in the top right corner on Page 3 there is a blank space, here I added a QR code to the answers, you could do similar. There are exactly 100 topics covered across: Four Operations Fractions Factors, Multiples and Primes Decimals Percentages Fractions, Decimals & Percentages Rounding Powers and Roots Indices Ratio Algebra Expanding & Factorising Solving Linear Equations Straight Line Graphs Inequalities Angles Angles in Polygons 2D Shapes Perimeter Area 3D Shapes Measure Time Money Compound measure Scale Drawings Transformations Similarity Probability Venn Diagrams Averages & the Range Frequency Tables Scatter Graphs