Much to my wife’s dismay, I spent most of my Easter holidays building up my GCSE Maths Takeaway page. I wanted a single page where my Year 11 students could go to do some independentContinue reading
Author: Craig Barton
Venn Diagrams – TES Maths ROTW 72
The following resource has been kindly shared on the TES Maths website. It is available to download for free by registering. And to access all the lovely Resource of the Week (ROTW) resources, just click here WhatContinue reading
Students using Diagnostic Questions to identify weak areas
Today marks “50 days to go until GCSE Paper 1“. Just typing it makes me a bit twitchy. With that in mind, I thought I would share a revision strategy I have used with myContinue reading
@TES Maths Resource of the Day: 6th to 12th April 2015
Each day I select one of my favourite free maths resources that have been uploaded and shared by the generous and incredibly talented users of the TES Maths website and tweet it out via @TESmaths. I call thisContinue reading
Proportion and Compound Measures: New Secondary Maths Curriculum Collection 10
Each fortnight, I will put together a selection of resources designed to help cover the objectives of the new 2014 maths curriculum for secondary schools (Key Stage 3). These are all freely available from theContinue reading
Frequency Trees – TES Maths Resource of the Week 71
The following resource has been kindly shared on the TES Maths website. It is available to download for free by registering. And to access all the lovely Resource of the Week (ROTW) resources, just click here WhatContinue reading
Ratio: New Secondary Maths Curriculum Collection 9
Each fortnight, I will put together a selection of resources designed to help cover the objectives of the new 2014 maths curriculum for secondary schools (Key Stage 3). These are all freely available from theContinue reading
@TESMaths Resource of the Day: 30th March to 5th April 2015
Each day I select one of my favourite free maths resources that have been uploaded and shared by the generous and incredibly talented users of the TES Maths website and tweet it out via @TESmaths. I call thisContinue reading
@TESMaths Resource of the Day: 23rd to 29th March 2015
Each day I select one of my favourite free maths resources that have been uploaded and shared by the generous and incredibly talented users of the TES Maths website and tweet it out via @TESmaths. I call thisContinue reading
Maths GCSE and A Level Revision Updates
Just a quick note to say that I have added a few updates to my GCSE Maths Revision Page and my AQA A Level Past Papers page that you (or your students) might find useful.Continue reading
@TESMaths Resource of the Day: 16th to 22nd March 2015
Each day I select one of my favourite free maths resources that have been uploaded and shared by the generous and incredibly talented users of the TES Maths website and tweet it out via @TESmaths. I call thisContinue reading
Introducing… GCSE Revision Streams!
We have a brand new feature at Diagnostic Questions that I am very excited to tell you about. It goes by the name of GCSE Revision Streams, and they work like this. Each of yourContinue reading
Maths Taboo! – TES Maths Resource of the Week 70
The following resource has been kindly shared on the TES Maths website. It is available to download for free by registering. And to access all the lovely Resource of the Week (ROTW) resources, just click here WhatContinue reading
Five things we do with our GCSE Maths classes
Last week I was lucky enough to present a workshop at the wonderful La Salle National Maths Conference entitled “Five things we do with our GCSE Maths classes”. It went down quite well, and aContinue reading
@TESMaths Resource of the Day: 9th to 15th March 2015
Each day I select one of my favourite free maths resources that have been uploaded and shared by the generous and incredibly talented users of the TES Maths website and tweet it out via @TESmaths. I call thisContinue reading
@TES Maths Resource of the Day: 2nd to 8th March 2015
Each day I select one of my favourite free maths resources that have been uploaded and shared by the generous and incredibly talented users of the TES Maths website and tweet it out via @TESmaths. I call thisContinue reading
How to construct a 50p – TES Maths Resource of the Week 69
The following resource has been kindly shared on the TES Maths website. It is available to download for free by registering. And to access all the lovely Resource of the Week (ROTW) resources, just click here WhatContinue reading
GCSE Maths Countdown: Days 100 to 91
As I mentioned in a previous post, each day I am tweeting out one Higher and one Foundation Maths GCSE Diagnostic Question. I have chosen these to cover as wide a range of the courseContinue reading
Misconceptions: Probability Tree Diagrams – Maths Diagnostic Question of the Week 22
What are the major misconceptions that students have when it comes to probability tree diagrams? Specifically, are students able to correctly interpret the meaning of the question and select which branches they require? Using real life dataContinue reading
TES School Awards 2015: Maths Teacher or Team of the Year
Nominations close on Sunday (8th March) for this year’s TES School Awards. This is your opportunity to nominate a maths teacher or a maths team who you think are particularly deserving of some wider recognition. IfContinue reading