GCSE Maths Grade 5 Starter Set

A free collection of 20 short, interleaved GCSE Maths starters aimed at students working towards Grade 5.

Each starter contains four skills-based questions designed to take approximately five minutes. Questions are mixed across number, ratio, algebra, geometry and probability, helping students revisit previously taught content through regular retrieval practice.

Skills covered include:

• Fraction problems
• Ratio problems
• Direct and inverse proportion
• Reverse percentages
• Standard form
• Compound measures
• Changing the subject of a formula
• Expanding and factorising quadratics
• Quadratic graphs
• Simultaneous equations
• Gradient of a line
• Equation of a line
• Spheres and cones
• Sector area and arc length
• Similar shapes
• Trigonometry
• Exact trigonometric values
• Probability trees
• Venn diagrams

The resource contains:

• 20 interleaved starters
• Four questions per starter
• 80 original questions in total
• An answer slide immediately after every starter
• An editable PowerPoint presentation