Pathways Guide 2024 - Flipbook - Page 29
Mathematics GCSE
What we aim to achieve
How will I be assessed?
Mathematics GCSE will provide you
with the skills to deal with numerical
based problems in your everyday life.
It will also help you to enhance logical
thinking and problem solving skills
that you may need to use in the future.
Mathematics is a core subject and all
students will take a GCSE exam in this
subject.
The final examination in the summer term of Year 11 will consist
of three written papers, lasting 90 minutes each:
Prospective post-16 sixth forms,
colleges and apprenticeship providers
will be interested in your final GCSE
Mathematics grade. Future employers
will also use your maths grade as an
indicator to your future potential.
• Paper 1 - Non Calculator - Maximum 80 marks
• Paper 2 - Calculator - Maximum 80 marks
• Paper 3 - Calculator - Maximum 80 marks
What skills do I need?
There are lots of skills needed for both papers, here are some
of the recently added topics on each of the papers.
Foundation Paper
(Grades 5 - 1)
Higher Paper
(Grades 9 - 4)
We will be using the Edexcel GCSE
Mathematics specification (9-1). Full
details can be found on the Edexcel
website:
www.qualifications.pearson.com
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You can be entered for either
Foundation or Higher level, and this
level of entry will determine what final
grade you are able to achieve.
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• Expand the products of two
or more binomials
• Composite functions
• Deduce turning points from
completing the square
• Estimate gradients of graphs
and find the area under the graphs
• Geometric progression of
surds and sequences
• Conditional probability and
venn diagrams
• Nth term of quadratic sequences
• Acceleration
• Trapezium Rule
Course outline
Standard form
Vectors
Trigonometry
Factorising quadratics
Acceleration
Laws of indices
Direct/Indirect proportion
Simultaneous equations
Lengths of arcs and Areas
of sectors
Tree diagrams
Density
Fractional enlargement
Compound and Reverse
percentages
• Foundation - Grades 5 - 1
• Higher - Grades 9 - 4
Miss E Vallow – Assistant Team Leader – Maths
emily.vallow@attrust.org.uk
