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NEW A level maths specification/Sept 2016

I am looking on the net for the syllabus, new modules etc for the new spec and I cannot find anything.

Given the Specification is due for "start teaching SEPT 2016" and first assessment in Summer 2018 (2017 for AS), have any active teachers sample papers, structure, syllabi, etc.
I will be grateful
Teaching starts in 2017, according to Edexcel's website and "Draft specifications and sample assessment materials will be available from September 2016".
Reply 2
Original post by NotNotBatman
Teaching starts in 2017, according to Edexcel's website and "Draft specifications and sample assessment materials will be available from September 2016".


It appears there are making changes to the changes

I go by this and I cannot find maths

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/as-and-a-level-changes-a-summary/summary-of-changes-to-as-and-a-levels-from-2015
Original post by TeeEm
It appears there are making changes to the changes

I go by this and I cannot find maths

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/as-and-a-level-changes-a-summary/summary-of-changes-to-as-and-a-levels-from-2015


I don't see maths on that list at all.
Reply 4
Original post by NotNotBatman
I don't see maths on that list at all.


There you go!

Originally when these measures were announced there were just 2 groups of Subjects.
One to start in Sep 2015 and the other in Sep 2016 (maths was here)
Students which take sciences for instances are already on the New spec

Now this January I see a third group and Maths is nowhere

See the attached original documents about the changes.

Anybody that I have asked (not here) gives me different versions
Reply 5
Original post by TeeEm
I am looking on the net for the syllabus, new modules etc for the new spec and I cannot find anything.

Given the Specification is due for "start teaching SEPT 2016" and first assessment in Summer 2018 (2017 for AS), have any active teachers sample papers, structure, syllabi, etc.
I will be grateful


Closest you'll get until September 2016, when boards publish their actual syllabus and assessments

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gce-as-and-a-level-mathematics

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gce-as-and-a-level-further-mathematics

(The dates have moved now; first teaching 2017 I believe.)
Reply 6
Original post by shamika
Closest you'll get until September 2016, when boards publish their actual syllabus and assessments

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gce-as-and-a-level-mathematics

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/gce-as-and-a-level-further-mathematics

(The dates have moved now; first teaching 2017 I believe.)


thanks for that
Original post by TeeEm
I am looking on the net for the syllabus, new modules etc for the new spec and I cannot find anything.

Given the Specification is due for "start teaching SEPT 2016" and first assessment in Summer 2018 (2017 for AS), have any active teachers sample papers, structure, syllabi, etc.
I will be grateful


My maths teachers tell me that A-level maths is going to be one of, if not the, last of the academic subjects to change.
Reply 8
Original post by AlphaArgonian
My maths teachers tell me that A-level maths is going to be one of, if not the, last of the academic subjects to change.


I have heard that too among other theories and versions
thanks
Original post by TeeEm
I have heard that too among other theories and versions
thanks


:smile:
Original post by TeeEm
I am looking on the net for the syllabus, new modules etc for the new spec and I cannot find anything.

Given the Specification is due for "start teaching SEPT 2016" and first assessment in Summer 2018 (2017 for AS), have any active teachers sample papers, structure, syllabi, etc.
I will be grateful


The new Maths A levels will be for first teaching in September 2017. As the Edexcel Maths team put it:
"Many of you will have noticed that the GCE Mathematics curriculum is reforming, for the first time since 2000, when David Blunkett was secretary of state for education and employment, mobile phones were still getting smaller, and modular exams were the future."

Edexcel (and presumably the other boards also) are currently consulting teachers and others with regards:
a) the length and composition of the A level exams (all of the content has already been specified by Ofqual)
b) the choices that should be available for the 60% (?) of the FM specification that is not fixed by Ofqual

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