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Supporting Your Child in GCSE Mathematics: Understanding Recent Changes

Help your child excel in GCSE Mathematics by understanding the three types of exam questions: AO1 (straightforward), AO2 (application), and AO3 (analysis). The latter two are often more challenging. You can assist by involving them in real-life math scenarios like budgeting, measurements, and planning. Encourage them to explain their learning, engage in practical projects, and strengthen their math skills through everyday calculations. Aim for small, consistent practice sessions and foster a positive attitude toward learning math by encouraging explorative questions instead of simply providing answers.

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Supporting Your Child in GCSE Mathematics: Understanding Recent Changes

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  1. GCSE Mathematics How to support your child

  2. Recent Changes There are 3 types of questions on the paper: • AO1 • Straightforward maths questions • AO2 • Students select which maths to use to solve a problem • AO3 • Deciding how to solve a problem and explaining why Students find the last two most challenging and this is where you can help

  3. Real life questions • Changing money into different currencies • Finding areas involving gardens, wallpaper, carpet and paint • Finding the cost of 8 cakes if you know the cost of 5 • Calculating best buys • Working out postage & packing charges for online goods • Planning a visit to Grandma given a bus timetable and when to be back for • Filling in missing amounts in a bank statement or invoice

  4. How you can help • Involve your child in everyday calculations • Ask them to explain what they have been doing in lessons • Be sensitive to the way they are being taught and not rehearsing the tricks you may have learned at school • Involve them in do-it-yourself projects like designing their bedroom • Help them in discussions to make links with other subjects

  5. Transferable skills v answers

  6. What can you do now? • Little and often is best – encourage bite sized moments of maths • Don’t give answers, ask questions instead • Ask your child to explain/teach you a topic – you learn 95% of what you teach to someone else • Don’t undermine the subject • The only way to learn mathematics is to DO mathematics

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