This course is aimed at students hoping to achieve a grade 4. It focuses on topics that regularly appear in the GCSE course and will provide you with skills and techniques to approach some of the higher mark questions on the foundation GCSE.
This course is aimed at students hoping to achieve a grade 4. It focuses on topics that regularly appear in the GCSE course and will provide you with skills and techniques to approach some of the higher mark questions on the foundation GCSE.
Links and support to easily refresh/fill GCSE gaps
Communication with tutor throughout the course
Advice and resources suggested and recommended by experienced teachers
Aiming for a grade 4. (9 weeks)
1) Types of Number and non-calculator number skills - this will focus on factors, multiples, primes, square numbers and will equip you with skills to help make multiplication and division easier in a non calculator setting.
2) Fractions, Decimals and Percentages - This session will develop the links between FDP.
3) Ratio - This is one of the biggest areas in the foundation GCSE maths and will develop ratio and link it to the fractions, decimals and percentages unit, showing you that the skills are the same!
4) Conversions - We will develop the use of ratio tables to be able to convert between metric units and currency conversions. We will also look at time conversions.
5) Perimeter and Area - this will look at developing your skills on worded questions involving area and perimeter.
6) Volume - Following on from area, we will look at developing your understanding of volume of prisms and applying these to problem solving.
7) Simplifying - This will focus on simplifying algebra techniques including expanding and simplifying.
8) Angles - A common area where students drop marks, we will look at techniques to ensure you maximise your marks on these questions.
9) Wordy GCSE questions - Foundation GCSE. This session focuses on how to approach worded exam questions and looks at possible techniques that can be used to pick out key facts.
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