I Can't Do Maths!: Why children say it and how to make a difference

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COLOURFUL & ENGAGING: Beautifully illustrated with engaging images, clear designs and bright colours, the WJEC Maths Foundation and Intermediate GCSE Revision Guide effortlessly supports visual learning. Vibrant images bring to life key Maths concepts alongside clearly labelled diagrams. Altogether, they make the WJEC Maths Foundation and Intermediate GCSE Revision Guide the ideal revision tool to help students thrive. We’ll be exploring how using volumes of cubes, cuboids and right prisms will help you to plan out a stage or arena for your large-scale event. If you are like me, you are struggling at the moment to work from home; support your children with their schoolwork and try and keep it all together with a smile on your face. Unlike our face-to-face Maths Feast, there’s no limit to the number of teams that a school can enter into their DIY Maths Feast and entering different sized teams to fit with your situation is acceptable.

SIMPLE LANGUAGE: Our WJEC Maths Higher GCSE Revision Guide contains concise definitions, simple language and useful examples that make it the perfect learning aid for improving students' knowledge and academic confidence in GCSE Maths. Informative content and simple language ensure that all pupils will be able to gain a greater understanding of both theory-based and practical topics.The tables below provide links to various up-to-date resources for Wales. For younger children, it might be workbooks and flashcards to help with their understanding. For older children, it will be tailored revision for exam syllabi. This engaging DIY Maths booklet is focused on ratios and proportions. What they are, where you find them in the real world and how to calculate problems that involve ratios and proportions. COLOURFUL & ENGAGING: Beautifully illustrated with engaging images, clear designs and bright colours, the WJEC Maths Higher GCSE Revision Guide effortlessly supports visual learning. Vibrant images bring to life key Maths concepts alongside clearly labelled diagrams. Altogether, they make the WJEC Maths Higher GCSE Revision Guide the ideal revision tool to help students thrive.

Please be careful when buying support and revision materials for your children. Most revision guides that say AQA or Edexcel or GCSE 9 – 1 are for English specifications and the exams in England can be very different to the Welsh exam board. In Wales we follow WJEC. So GCSE Maths in England for example contains topics that are not examined in Wales and vice versa. Some revision guides are therefore no good at all, so do be careful. You could be wasting your money and your child could even be working on topics that will not come up in the exam. However, when it comes to the flashcards that I have listed below and the York Notes for their texts for English Literature there are no resources specific for WJEC so the ones included do work really well. So I totally understand why my phone is ringing more; why parents feel the need to ‘keep on top’ of this and become more involved because it looks like we are in this for the long haul. So it is natural that we are all worrying about the impact that this will have on our children. In Wales we are expecting our children to return for four weeks before they break for summer. But the reality for my son is going to be four single 2 ½ hour sessions. That’s it. And, reading between the lines, it seems as if we are being prepared for this blending of home school learning with occasional in school sessions in September too. There are a variety of tasks including getting to grips with the basics of ratios and proportion, practical skills, working with word problems, mathematical vocabulary, buddy teaching and extension activities.

Grade 8/9

recall and use formulae for the circumference of a circle and the area enclosed by a circle circumference of a circle = 2πr = πd, area of a circle = πr Furthermore, exams change all the time. So revision guides that were great five years ago are now out of date because the exam specifications are so different. Just be careful. We’ll be exploring how calculating surface areas and performance areas of cuboids and prisms can help you ensure that a stage or arena space can work best for your large-scale event. When you sign up to a DIY Maths Feast, you’ll gain access to brilliant materials that will support and embed the learning you’re doing with your students. The materials are for you to use as you wish – you could use them as: We’ll be exploring how using areas and perimeters of simple and compound shapes can help with planning out a stage or arena for your large-scale event.