www.studymaths.co.uk Twitter @StudyMaths
This GCSE Revision site is excellent. It contains helpsheets, worksheets, exam questions and games. The Question Bank is graded by the topic so they could go and practice a C grade Pythagoras question, revise the topic as well and then maybe try out a maths game. It’s an engaging site.
Together with
www.formtimeideas.com, which is a tutor group site with a page for literacy and numeracy, you have plenty of practice opportunities
Another recommendation is
www.mathsbox.org.uk. There are a host of items on the site and a lot of great stuff is free. With warm-up challenges, Maths Bingo, settlers and starters as well as the subscription resources too there is really a lot to recommend.
As well as using a range of new resources it is worth spending time exploring a range of alternative methods. With a range of long multiplication methods such as the lattice method or Napier’s Bones, column method and even Vedic multiplication there is an opportunity to arm yourselves as a teacher with a toolbox of methods.
Maybe it’s time to say to a student that there are alternatives to calculating something successfully which they may not have managed in 5 or more years of schooling previously. As part of this bespoke revision year approach in further education that fact that you will have to go back to the basics is important and should mean that you don’t have to cover all of it.
As part of revision it is good to keep one eye on common misconceptions. Many students will say that they don’t do fractions. If you always treat fractions, decimals and percentages as the same, because they are, and emphasise equivalences then that will have an effect. Similar with mean, median, mode - they always muddle them - which one is which? So don’t remind them of them together. Keep them apart as you would area and perimeter which is another stumbling block.
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