Include plenty of context-based problem-solving on perimeter, area, volume, and surface area, making sure students can flexibly apply these skills to 2D and 3D shapes and other problems. Ensure students can apply fraction and ratio skills to unfamiliar contexts for mutually exclusive events or relative frequency. We have content relating to the farmer’s field question, and crossover with fractions work, in our GCSE lesson dedicated to the application of perimeter and area. The highest proportion of C2 questions involving reasoning or interpretation from charts or diagrams occurs within Statistics. I first started looking in detail at these papers in 2021, when I used the then available full set of six Edexcel GCSE maths Foundation papers from June 2017 through to November 2019.

Before we get into the strand-by-strand analysis, it is interesting to look at patterns across the strands and papers as a whole. This is also not a ‘difficulty’ measure – it should be noted that ‘higher grade’ topics, such as simultaneous equations or estimating the mean, are often examined as standard procedural. VAT a week per student to reflect the amount of work the teacher will need to do to successfully guide you through your GCSE. You are responsible for ensuring that, prior to the use of the Service by your employees, agents or students, all such parties are notified of and agree to the terms of this Agreement. Also surprising was the relatively high proportion (56%) of C3 marks for Pythagoras’ theorem and trigonometry – as one of the more challenging topics on Foundation.A significant amount of algebra, statistics, and probability is procedural C1 content, so this suggests there is less value in spending a lot of vital exam preparation time on rich problems for these topics. Also of note is the relatively high frequency of time calculations appearances, particularly as this topic can sometimes get overlooked or assumed that students “should” be able to do.

Available for core subjects including AQA and Pearson Edexcel maths, science, english and Pearson Edexcel history and business studies. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Mathematics provides structured support for your low attaining students with a fully integrated and unique Access to Foundation Workbooks.Most of the topics in this list are absolutely fundamental for further work on the Foundation maths papers, so even those in red should be covered in detail. Ratio is frequently embedded in questions relating to other topics, such as shape or angle problems. I have split the data set out into six strands, ‘Number’, ‘Algebra’, ‘Ratio and proportion’, ‘Geometry’, ‘Probability’ and ‘Statistics’, and have added commentary on each strand below. When time is short, we can identify strands where these problems are more likely to occur (Geometry, Ratio and proportion) and invest more time in these, and perhaps less time on more complex algebra.

Here you will be able to enhance your child’s learning with Mini Courses and Educational Escape Room Puzzles. You will be able to enter the code from the book into the free app to unlock online pages from revision guide. A large proportion (39%) of work on charts and graphs is C2, meaning that candidates are almost as likely to be asked to analyse, read information from, or critique a graph or chart as they are to draw one. As with number and proportion, this strand includes lots of context-rich problem solving involving ratio and proportional reasoning. This could in part be achieved by using all of the papers analysed above as practice papers, mock exams or elements of a worksheet, both in the classroom and at home.

g. transformations, drawing and interpreting charts and graphs, constructions and loci, plans and elevations) are more likely to appear on Papers 2 or 3, simply because there’s less room for them on Paper 1. e. that was added in 2015), as opposed to ‘old spec content’, is strongly represented in the probability strand. Place value, standard form, indices, rounding and estimation, factors, multiples, HCF, LCM and product of primes tend to be assessed in more of a procedural manner and could be ‘easy wins’. Other students may have ‘dropped down’ to Foundation at the last minute, so might need some rapid intervention to boost number and proportional reasoning problem-solving skills, particularly C3 questions, as GCSE maths revision in a Higher tier group may not have targeted these areas. Third Space Learning’s online GCSE mathematics courses cover the entire GCSE mathematics curriculum.

The earlier series (prior to June 2020) have roughly a third of the marks on the mark scheme allocated to C3 problems, with a higher ratio of C1 to C2 questions on the November series.

Similarly to Number, a large percentage of Ratio and proportion questions were classified C3 (problem-solving). Accessing a CGP Online Edition by using a code from a printed CGP book grants you access to the title and Online Extras for three years from the date of activation of the code. The C2 marks within this topic include things like translating a worded context into an algebraic formula. Plus, the unique code in the front of the book gives you access to the free Online Edition of the whole book (including the answers to every question in your physical copy) to read on your PC, Mac or tablet.