Collins New GCSE Maths
With Collins New GCSE Maths for Edexcel and AQA courses, your students have more practice and smooth progression, enabling them to get better results. Want to see for yourself?
Evaluation Packs: Out now! You can order yours right away on your school account - simply choose which exam board you'd like:
Edexcel Linear Edexcel Modular AQA Modular
Interactive Books: Take a look at the Interactive Book demo, which includes a walkthrough and seven sample interactive resources - make sure you have your sound on to hear the voiceover
NEW! Assessment subscription package: Available from September 2010, each package covers one year for the GCSE Maths course, including over 250 paper tests for you to save and keep, and a one-year subscription to comprehensive electronic testing and reporting tools. See how it works by clicking to view our online demonstration.
More information about the series:
Specifications:
The following specifications have been accredited - click on the links for more information:
AQA specification
Edexcel A Maths
Edexcel B Maths
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The New Maths GCSE
So we are going to have changes to the mathematics GCSE for first teaching from 2010. What exactly will these changes be? The examination boards had a series of meetings last term to publicise their plans and they are having more this term. They are useful but they only paint part of the picture. Let me outline the present state of play.
The exam board specifications are subject to approval by the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA). This is the body responsible for the school curriculum and charged with improving it. The exam boards sent first drafts of their specifications to QCDA in the summer but approval is not likely to be a rubber stamping exercise. There could be considerable changes before the final approved specifications are published in December 2009.
There will be very little change in the subject content and it is reassuring to know that we will be teaching familiar topics. What is different is a greater emphasis on process skills. Look, for example, at the new level descriptors for grade C and grade F and you will see the change of emphasis. Can pupils look at a real life situation or problem and choose appropriate mathematics to tackle it? Can they explain what they have found and relate it to the original problem? For us as teachers it means we should be thinking of applications of the mathematics we are teaching, sharing these with pupils and using them as part of our teaching.
Chris Pearce
Secondary Teaching and Learning Adviser
Four Oaks Professional Development Centre
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