Helping Your Child With GCSE Maths

GCSE Maths is perhaps the most important qualification that you child will achieve.

Not only does it give pupils the knowledge to deal with practical problems in the real world, it is also an important subject when applying for further education and jobs.

As parents I am sure you will push your children to take their GCSE Maths study seriously and try to help them as best you can. However, not everyone has a talent for maths and some parents may not have the mathematical ability to assist their child.Even those that have a decent understanding of maths may find that their child is now being taught in a completely different way than they were.

If either of these situations applies to you or even if you just want to be more involved , then don't worry; there are still ways to help your child with their GCSE Maths study.

Help and Support available

FRONTER

Homework Booklet

Past Papers

Revision Lists

Other Support

My Maths

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Revision Guides and Workbooks £2 each

Revision CD-Roms £3 each or £4 for both tiers

Maths Clinics These take place on Tuesday and Thursday after school in the Maths department – anyone is welcome.

New things happening in lessons

Now Year 10 are doing a Linear GCSE course we need to assess them more regularly.As a result we are monitoring progress by using APP resources.Students should be more aware of what they need to do in order to improve.We also do termly tests – either proper mock exam papers or APP tests ( at the end of this term Year 11 have a Unit 3 mock and Year 10 a Unit 2 exam)

COUNTESTHORPE COLLEGE Maths Basic Skills GRADE C/D Test 1 Name ___________________________ Date______________________________ Class_____________________________ Section A:Numbers & calculating Section B: Algebra Section C: Using and applying D.1

1. Which is bigger: 0.45 or 5

2?

D.6 11. If x = 2, calculate the value of:

x3 + x

21. Work out the area of a parallelogram of base 6cm and height 8cm.

D.2 2. Decrease £40 by 15%

D.7 12. Solve: 3x + 1 = 10

D.3 3. Divide 30 in a ratio of 3:2

D.8 13. Find the nth term of this sequence 1 3 5 7 9 ...

22. Three of the angles of a quadrilateral are 1200, 480 and 920. What is the size of the 4th angle?

D.4 4. If 60 marks is 40%, what is full marks?

D.9 14. If y=3x + 2, find the value of y when x = -2

D.5

5. Add: 3

1and

4

1

D.21 Use π on the calculator 15. Calculate the area of a circle with radius of 5cm (1dp)

23. A plane flies 1440miles at a speed of 240mph. How long does it take?

C.1 6. To increase an amount by 7%, what single multiplier would you use?

C.6 16. Expand & simplify:

(x + 2)(x + 3)

C.2 7. Increase £28 by 7%

C.8 17. Solve: x + 1 < 5 24.

If the relative frequency of getting a ‘six’ on a dice is 0.2, how many sixes would you expect to get in 200 throws of the dice?

C.3 8. Without a calculator work out:

0.2 x 0.3

C.9 18. Work out the value of: 3x + 2y When x = 5 and y = -4

C.4 9. Round off 17.2 to one significant

figure

C.10 19. Write down the next term in this sequence: 1 4 9 16 25

25. Work out the volume of this prism? 12m2

6m

C.5 10. Use a calculator to work out:

(0.3 x 2.8)2

C.11 20. If y = x3 + 3 , find the value of y when x = 2

Total (A) Total (B) Total (C) Test Total (A+B+C) R (0-9) Y (10-19) G (20-25)

. Work out an estimate for the value of 8.92.3

637

1mark (C/4)

5. Work out:

Use your calculator to work out the value of 63.981.4

52.427.6

Write down all the figures on your calculator display.

1 mark (C/5)

C Algebra

6. Expand & simplify :

(x + 3)(x + 5)

Grade C Maths Assessment Test 1

Name: Class: Date: A(2) B(5) C(15) D(9) E(14) Total Score (45) Grade

How else can you Support your child

• Ask you child to show you their Maths book and to discuss what they learnt that day.

Ask them to show you completed homework (and if you can sit with them while they complete it).

Make sure they are revising and preparing for exams and tests

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