Revising for the GCSE Maths exams with MyMaths
Posted in Secondary
Now that your students have completed their mock exams, you may be planning next steps for their revision over the coming months. Read on to find out how MyMaths resources can support students as they revise for their GCSE exams.
On Secondary MyMaths, there is a dedicated ‘Revision and assessment’ area containing booster packs for targeted GCSE revision.
Students can use the revision lessons to check their initial understanding, revise and practise key skills, and try out exam-style questions with support from helpful hints. Then they can complete the corresponding worksheets to test their understanding and identify where they need more support.
In the revision lesson, students can refresh prerequisite knowledge, then move on to practising key skills and applying these to exam-style questions.
Each booster pack focuses on skills and questions in a specific grade range. This helps students to make the most of their revision time by selecting topics at an appropriate starting level, rather than going over topics which are already secure or feeling discouraged by questions they find too difficult.
For example, this sequence of worksheets on perimeter, area and volume shows how the level of challenge presented by the questions increases gradually. Each revision lesson and accompanying worksheet recaps different skills and applies these to solving problems of increasing complexity.
The revision lesson and worksheet for grades 3 and 4 cover finding the volume and surface area of cuboids, cylinders and prisms.
The revision lesson and worksheet for grades 4 and 5 cover using the formulae relating to circles, sectors and cones.
The revision lesson and worksheet for grades 6 and 7 cover calculating the surface area and volume of compound solids and using the formula for the volume of a pyramid.
The revision lesson and worksheet for grades 8 and 9 cover calculating the volume of more complex compound solids and solving volume and surface area problems algebraically.
If students need more information and support on an individual skill, they can access relevant lessons and homework tasks within the booster pack for further practice.
In the Teacher Dashboard, you can assign a tailored selection of worksheets to a group of students or set them all the worksheets from a particular booster pack, then check their results to see how they are getting on.
Go to our support site to find out more about viewing students’ scores and seeing their answers for a task.