A guide to help Year 11 GCSE Maths students prepare for Maths A level. Recent school closures mean that some students may not have completed the GCSE syllabus, and some may have a 6 month break before starting their A level course. The step from GCSE to A level is challenging at the best of times. This booklet helps students identify which skills they may need to practise, gives hints and tips, provides some exercises to help identify gaps and points to further resources to support their preparations. Please provide feedback. Happy to expand this further if there is sufficient interest.

A guidance document aimed at parents helping their KS1 children with adding and subtracting during the school closures. Includes guidance, worksheets, links to other worksheets and links to interactive games. It’s aimed to help children to master the basics and avoid parents introducing more advanced methods that the children are not yet ready for. Feel free to share. I would value any feedback and if people feel this is useful I will try to tackle other topics and levels - any suggestions welcomed.

These two worksheets provide a number of questions to practise the sorts of questions where one person has so many more of something than another, and you need to work out what each share is, etc. Great problem solving practice. Ideal for Key Stage 2 up to Foundation GCSE. Great for homework.

This resource can be used from Key Stage 3 up to GCSE level. Many students have difficulties with fractions, decimals and percentages and this resources covers all the basic skills involved in converting from one form to another. This is ideal for revision and to identify gaps in learning, as well as supporting lessons on fractions. It has a number of sections which include questions on converting decimals to fractions, decimals to percentages, percentages to decimals, percentages to fractions, fractions to decimals (friendly denominators), fractions to decimals (trickier questions), fractions to percentages (friendly denominators), fractions to percentages (trickier questions) and ordering fractions, decimals and percentages. Each section has a self assessment box. The resource can be used as a whole, or individual pages can be used for homework purposes. It’s in Word so can be edited. Answers are provided in a separate file.

This resource can be used from Key Stage 3 up to GCSE level. Many students have difficulties with percentages and this resources covers all the basic skills involved. This is ideal for revision and to identify gaps in learning, as well as supporting lessons on percentages. It has a number of sections which include questions on finding percentages of amounts with and without a calculator, increasing and decreasing amounts by a given percentage with and without a calculator, reverse percentage calculations and questions on expressing amounts as percentages. Each section has a self assessment box. The resource can be used as a whole, or individual pages can be used for homework purposes. It’s in Word so can be edited. Answers are provided in a separate file.

This resource can be used from Key Stage 2 up to GCSE level. Many students have difficulties with fractions and this resources covers all the basic skills involved. This is ideal for revision and to identify gaps in learning, as well as supporting lessons on fractions. It has a number of sections which include questions on identifying how much of a shape is shaded, shading a fraction, simplifying fractions, equivalent fractions, fractions of amounts, converting improper fraction to mixed fractions and vice versa, adding fractions, subtracting fractions, mutiplying fractions, dividing fractions and finally a section on calculations involving mixed fractions. Each section has a self assessment box. The resource can be used as a whole, or individual pages can be used for homework purposes. It’s in Word so can be edited. Answers are provided in a separate file.

Here are a couple of worksheets that give students practice at writing large numbers in words, and vice versa. Also included is a handy coloured sheet showing the columns in groups of 3 (HTU of millions, HTU of thousands and HTU) which can be used to support the exercise. This is suitable for any student who still has to master place value and is good practice for the foundation GCSE exam.

This set of worksheets is designed to check basic algebra knowledge (factorising, expanding brackets, collecting like terms, multiplying terms, solving equations, expanding quadratics, laws of indices). There are 8 worksheets with 10 assorted questions on each sheet. Each worksheet is developed in the same theme to provide repetitive practice for students. The worksheets can also be used to identify gaps in knowledge. The worksheets are designed for GCSE 9-1 foundation students and those at the foundation/higher crossover level.