Further Maths more enjoyable than Maths (at level 2)
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Original post by DerDracologe
I dont believe we did much on NRICH, I remember doing stuff on it in younger years but not in GCSE years. I believe all students were making progress, my teacher was very attentive to making sure we all understood and had work for our level. I wasn’t bored when doing the fsmq content, but that’s not GCSE maths as you correctly point out- therefore when i did lessons on revising GCSE content I did not feel challenged on most of the questions.
There are very challenging GCSE question though - why was revision not differentiated? I don't expect my students to do grade 7 questions when they are working at grade 9. Dr Frost has a super collection of these type of questions.
Original post by Muttley79
There are very challenging GCSE question though - why was revision not differentiated? I don't expect my students to do grade 7 questions when they are working at grade 9. Dr Frost has a super collection of these type of questions.
It was, we were always given options on what to work on and were given lots of options of resources to do during the lesson. We often did challenging GCSE questions which i did enjoy 🙂 We did drfrost very frequently
Apologies for the rest of the people playing for this tangent!
Original post by Muttley79
Your teacher should have given you extension work ... there's some amazing resources for that.. Did you do UKMT challenges, NRICH problems including submitting your solutions.
Yeah we had access to some of that but my extension work was the FSMQ. No regrets from either me or DerDracologe by the looks of it.
Original post by sdfj
Further maths GCSE exists - now what are your thoughts?
It’s technically a level 2 Qualification AFAIK and not a GCSE unless mistaken, I don’t commonly say the average set 1/2 pupil take FMs at GCSE level unlike A-level.
If this was A-level then yeah add it in but GCSE level? Nah imo.
That’s my opinion on whether it should be added in the game or not, not gonna say whether it’s a good L2 subject or not.
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Original post by Talkative Toad
It’s technically a level 2 Qualification AFAIK and not a GCSE unless mistaken, I don’t commonly say the average set 1/2 pupil take FMs at GCSE level unlike A-level.
If this was A-level then year add it in but GCSE level? Nah imod
If this was A-level then year add it in but GCSE level? Nah imod
Ok let's not do that in that case. I think it is quite uncommon among GCSE pupils but I'm not super knowledgeable about these things.
Original post by DerDracologe
I did have extension work, when I finished I did some work on fsmq or as level questions which i found very interesting and enjoyable. Yes I did do UKMT (senior in both years 10 and 11).
You did the senior one in Y10? I did the intermediate but doing the senior one on Tuesday.
Original post by sdfj
You did the senior one in Y10? I did the intermediate but doing the senior one on Tuesday.
yeah i did intermediate in years 8 and 9 and senior in years 10 and 11 (got bronze and silver on senior)
Original post by Muttley79
They aren't harder - no non-calculator paper. If a teacher does not teach GCSE they won't have access to the full mark scheme so won't mark accurately. It's not enough to get the question right.
I find the non-calculator paper even easier.
I'm pretty sure that if I get every question correct, and the working is acceptable per the mark scheme that was available to me and my teacher, then I would deserve the full marks. Regardless, the point is that (i)GCSE maths didn't challenge me much.
Original post by DerDracologe
yeah i did intermediate in years 8 and 9 and senior in years 10 and 11 (got bronze and silver on senior)
Wow that's really impressive. I almost got a gold in the intermediate last year but missed out by 2 marks
Hopefully I can get silver in this one but the UKMT SMC is notorious for being quite hard so I won't get my hopes up.
Original post by sdfj
Wow that's really impressive. I almost got a gold in the intermediate last year but missed out by 2 marks
Hopefully I can get silver in this one but the UKMT SMC is notorious for being quite hard so I won't get my hopes up.
Hopefully I can get silver in this one but the UKMT SMC is notorious for being quite hard so I won't get my hopes up.
Good luck 🙂 I think im also doing it on Tuesday but haven’t had any confirmation from my school yet…
Original post by DerDracologe
Good luck 🙂 I think im also doing it on Tuesday but haven’t had any confirmation from my school yet…
I just realised that it's in the middle of quite a major chemistry test - so I'll have to do the test another time annoyingly.
Original post by sdfj
I just realised that it's in the middle of quite a major chemistry test - so I'll have to do the test another time annoyingly.
That's irritating. I'm missing a bio lesson I think which is annoying because of the amount of content
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