Understanding Uncertainty – Cambridge University

A treasure trove of interesting gems with a focus on probability, uncertainty and chance. A must for teachers who want to make their statistics lessons more relevant and fascinating!

Source: Understanding Uncertainty

“produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim is to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining!”

Examination Resources

Another superb blog post from Colleen Young with all the useful information and links that we all need at this time of the year (see below this post).  After reading it and checking the links, I created this document for anyone who needs a RAG sheet or checklist of all the topics required for the new GCSE exam – I based it on extracts from the “Exemplification of the New Sample Assessment Materials” that C0lleen mentions and links to in her post. If you would like the Edexcel version of the RAG sheet, please let me know and I can send it to you or place it on my blog at some point.

GCSE (9-1) RAG Sheet Full Curriculum Checklist v2 (created by MrWilliamsMaths on 6 March 2017)MWM Checklist GCSE 9-1 final

Mathematics, Learning and Technology

With changes to examinations at both GCSE (UK examination taken at age 16) and A Level (UK examination taken at age 18) all the examination boards are offering help and support for teachers and students. Many excellent resources are available with several published very recently.

For example we have Edexcel’s very helpful resources for teaching new content. For each topic, information, examples and exercises (with answers) are given.

edexcel-new-content-resources

edexcel-iteration Edexcel – New Content Resources

More helpful Edexcel resources include the Exemplification of the New Sample Assessment Materials and the Topic Tests, note the Show More button which will take you to more resources including for example posters of formulae that students need to know.

From AQA and OCR too we have many excellent resources to support the teaching of the new specifications. Given so many new and useful resources I have separated the UK Assessment pages further and now have…

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