Having had a fair bit of success with our year 11 C/D borderline students in the March exam we are now in a position, like many other schools, where we are able to turn our attention to helping our remaining students get that all important C grade. I have put together a series of 5 “Essential skills” worksheets that could be used as a starter activity or as a homework (or in lots of other ways) in order to help keep certain topics fresh in the minds of these students. To make it easier to monitor, track and set targets from, I have kept the order of topics consistent for all of them, however, they do get progressively harder.
Not the most exciting of resources, but a useful addition to all the other great things I’m sure you are doing to help prepare the students at your school.
Photo credit: Isaias Campbell cc
Mark Greenaway
April 24, 2013 at 11:13pmHi Mo
Really appreciate you putting these together
Trust all is going well, things seem to be happening your end
Take care
Mark
MathedUp
April 24, 2013 at 11:17pmNo worries Mark. Hope you find them useful.. Aiming to put together a monitoring sheet for them over the weekend but let me know if you beat me to it (I know you too well!)
Things going well thanks and hope all is well at your end. Hopefully we get a chance to have a catch up soon..
Mo
Miriam Sismey
April 25, 2013 at 8:55amHi Mo,
Thanks for these – they will save us a lot of work!
Miriam
MathedUp
April 25, 2013 at 6:21pmNo worries. Hope all is well at JH.. Will hopefully see you at Teachmeet on 16th May..?
Miriam Sismey
April 25, 2013 at 8:40pmHope so – I shall put it in the diary.
Wil it be at TDA this time?
MathedUp
April 25, 2013 at 10:13pmNo, will be at KSCS. Here is the link..
See you there!
Mo
Lynne Webb
April 30, 2013 at 12:11amThanks Mo used twice today already. Monitoring sheets after the bank Holiday? YES PLEASE!
Lynne
MathedUp
April 30, 2013 at 12:14amWill get on it! Hope you are well..
Mo
Lynne Webb
April 30, 2013 at 11:49pmThank you! I am very well thanks. Hope you are too.
Calculators: The New Hope | Maths Sandpit
May 1, 2013 at 5:01pm[…] that elusive Grade D or even C. This is my ‘Hope’. They have been doing well with the D to C essential skills sheets by @MathedUp and are developing a positive […]
Essential skills | maths ydb | Scoop.it
May 17, 2013 at 1:21am[…] Having had a fair bit of success with our year 11 C/D borderline students in the March exam we are now in a position, like many other schools, where we are able to turn our attention to helping our… […]
Essential skills | Mathematics in Secondary Sch...
May 25, 2013 at 11:50am[…] Having had a fair bit of success with our year 11 C/D borderline students in the March exam we are now in a position, like many other schools, where we are able to turn our attention to helping our… […]
» Flippin’ revision!
March 24, 2015 at 10:49pm[…] I have been using to support their revision are the higher essential skills worksheets (foundation ones available too) and the GCSE maths revision […]
Jessica (@algebrainiac1)
April 8, 2019 at 5:46pmI followed a thread of old links on a blog post that came up when I was searching and got to this post…When I click the link for the Essential skills C/D pack, it says it isn’t available. Do you have this somewhere that I can check it out? Thanks!
MathedUp
April 13, 2019 at 9:19pmHi Jessica. Link was broken but have fixed it now. I hope it proves useful..