Maths
What happens at the start of Year 11?
Students in Year 11 will continue to be in tiered groups with parallel classes, and the distinction between the tier of entry for GCSE (either Foundation or Higher) should now be clear. Students are still given the opportunity to be challenged at a high level, regardless of grouping. The groups are reviewed periodically in order to maximise the students’ progress.
What do students learn?
Students work through the last few chapters of the Pearson Edexcel scheme for GCSE.
The lessons involve problem-solving, fluency and reasoning aspects, which are proven to be essential skills for students to develop. Within this, students are given strategies to approach problem-solving questions, for example using bar modelling. There are also real-life contextualised questions to help students explore how their mathematical progression can be used in wider contexts.
What content is covered?
Foundation
- Quadratic equations & graphs
- Bearings
- Fractions, indices & standard form
- Similarity, congruence & vectors
- More algebra
Higher
- Circle theorems
- More algebra
- Vectors & geometric proof
- Proportions & graphs
- More trigonometry
What can you do to help?
Students in Year 11 should be in the habit of doing regular revision. There are many resources online to help with this.
Each student also has a login to the Sparx Maths website. Students use their normal school login details to login to Sparx. This is used for weekly homeworks, but is also a very useful tool for them to enhance their skills and plug gaps in knowledge. It is recommended that students log in to this on a regular basis.
Other useful websites are:
Maths Genie • Learn GCSE Maths for Free
Corbettmaths – Videos, worksheets, 5-a-day and much more
GCSE (Edexcel) Revision | 1st Class Maths
What do we do to help?
Students in Year 11 have 9 Maths lessons per fortnight. Students are also offered additional support and are always encouraged to speak to their teachers if they have any questions and/or require further help. Homework is set on a weekly basis and this will either be on the Sparx Maths website, or in the form of exam practice.
