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101 Top Tips for GCSE
Maths Resits
Julia Smithaka
@tessmaths
TheHeadlines
• 1,000,000 young people out of work by Christmas (from 400,000)
• Up to 200,000 resitters from Sept 2020 (from 175,000)
• 35,000 extra FS maths learners
• 1 in 10 16-18 yr olds in employment or employer funded study
• 600,000 students leaving education at 18 yrs (David Hughes Radio 4 yesterday)
• Shifting Sands…
November and January cohorts
Create a Positive Culture
What do you say when a student says…
•‘I hate maths!’
•‘When am I ever gonna to need this?’
•I DON’T DO MATHS!Padlet.com/tessmaths1/posters
Menti.com code 26374
To win a ‘money can’t buy
mathematical teatowel’ The best answer on Menti
will get sent a teatowelI decide…no arguing
Maths is good for them… (like vegetables)
Pupils who have good maths skills earn more money
…£150,000 more, over their working life
....have better health
…have better opportunities
...have better educated children
Students need to see the benefit
Students need to value it
And then they may put in the effort (National Numeracy)
Daily Maths – it’s good for you… (like inoculations)
The only way to get good at maths…is to do lots of maths
‘Practice until you cannot get it wrong; not until you get it right…’
The wisdom of Malcolm Gladwell (yes, it’s been poo poo’da bit)
10,000 hours to become an expert
Daily deliberate, purposeful practice
Half an hour every day
Padlet.com/tessmaths1/AOCtaster
‘Do maths…lots of it…every
day’
Daily Maths – half an hour every day
Corbettmaths 5 a day
Just Maths Bread and Butter
Mr Chadburn Calendar maths
Mathsbot Number of the Day
‘You can’t do simple maths under pressure’
30 second challenges
Start now…
Connections
Get the nine basics right
50% of Foundation is AO1
Assessment Objective Number 1
• Accurately recall facts, terminology and definitions
• Use and interpret notation correctly
• Accurately carry out routine procedures or set tasks requiring multi-step solutions
Focus upon fluency in the basics
Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, percentages, scale and ratio
Time tables, estimation, compass & protractor use, using a calculator
You’re dealing with Rhinos!
‘Really Here In Name Only’
Coined by Professor Susan Wallace
Teach them how to revise
Who can you revise with?
What to revise?
How to revise?
Where to revise?
When to revise?
Why revise?
The wisdom of Mark McCourt
A RevisionBased Approach…
They have seen all of the maths before…
Focus upon the nine basics
Don’t repeat what happened first time around…you’ll get the
same result
If it looks and feels like it did before, you’ll get the same result
If students don’t perceive the value in it
or believe that they can do it, you’ll get the same result
November Strategies…
Daily Maths
The 9 basics
Revision approach
Student ownership
Foundation then Higher Tiet
The 5R’s RevisionYear Approach
Recall – 5 mins
Routine – rumble of maths 10 mins
Revise - one topic 15 mins
Repeat – exam q’s on the revised topic – 15 mins
Ready? Exam Technique – 10/15 mins
AQA All About Maths
http://www.mrbartonmaths.com/blog/julia-smith-teaching-gcse-resit-and-the-5rs/
Exam Technique is Key
Chief Examiners Reports tell us what students are not good at….so do that…calculators, protractors, compasses
Online learning…no one left behind!
You don’t have to funnel people into a brick box to teach them (Principal of Milton Keynes College)
Dylan Wiliam…Activate students as owners of their own learning
National Numeracy: students have to put some effort in
Protocols & ways of working…gamification
Bring on the padlets…Daily maths!
Justaroo Revision Guide for homeworking
Bring on The Padlets
padlet.com/tessmaths1/AOCtaster
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