KS5 Teaching Resources Index
This booklet will help your students transition from year 11 to year 12 more successfully. It includes topics that students will need to be confident with from GCSE to help them achieve in A Level.
Inspired by RISPs, I am going to be creating rich tasks to use with my year 12 class. I'll be adding to it regularly so make sure you keep checking for more!
Here is the year 12 murder mystery! A mix of different year 12 topics; perfect for a fun end-of-year revision lesson.
We mostly follow the Pearson textbook for Edexcel for our maths A Level course. Rather than teaching the first chapter and a half, which many students hopefully won’t need, I have designed a baseline assessment and intervention booklet. The topics included are indices, surds, expanding and factorising, solving equations and inequalities, minimum points and functions.
The baseline assessment feeds into a question level analysis which informs students which sections of the intervention booklet they need to complete.
Lesson 1 - baseline assessment - 1 hour, 60 marks. Calculators may be used for some questions. The teacher marks them and makes notes on misconceptions to share with the group. Then fill in the question level analysis (sheet 1 of the spreadsheet). Individual QLAs will automatically populate - print the whole workbook so each student has their personal QLA for their folder.
Lesson 2 – The teacher should go through the baseline thoroughly. Students should make corrections and notes accordingly to support them with the intervention exercises.
Lessons 3 and 4 (possibly 5, and definitely homework!) - students should complete the corresponding AND SUBSEQUENT sections of each of the 12 topics in the intervention booklet. For example, if their QLA shows amber for simplifying indices, they would complete the amber AND green sections of that topic in the booklet. If they finish but need further practice, exercises in the textbook are at the bottom of each topic, and then they can complete the mixed exercise too.
This should make sure that no time is wasted and that students' individual gaps are filled.
I have included answers for both the baseline assessment and the intervention booklet. I hope you find these new resources useful!
These resources have been designed to be used by teachers as normal teaching resources.
If you can't find a topic, I haven't made it yet! Hopefully there's enough here to get you started.
AS Level Pure
1 Algebraic Expressions
2 Quadratics
3 Equations and Inequalities
4 Graphs and Transformations
5 Straight Line Graphs
6 Circles
7 Algebraic Methods
8 Binomial Expansion
9 Trigonometric Ratios
10 Trigonometric Identities and Equations
11 Vectors
12 Differentiation
13 Integration
14 Exponentials and Logarithms
A Level Pure
1 Algebraic Methods
2 Functions and Graphs
3 Sequences and Series
4 Binomial Expansion
5 Radians
6 Trigonometric Functions
7 Trigonometry and Modelling
8 Parametric Equations
9 Differentiation
10 Numerical Methods
11 Integration
12 Vectors
AS Level Applied
1 Data Collection
2 Measures of Location and Spread
3 Representations of Data
4 Correlation
5 Probability
6 Statistical Distributions
7 Hypothesis Testing
8 Modelling in Mechanics
9 Constant Acceleration
10 Forces and Motion
11 Variable Acceleration
A Level Applied
1 Regression, correlation and hypothesis testing
2 Conditional probability
3 Normal distribution
4 Moments
5 Forces and friction
6 Projectiles
7 Applications of forces
8 Further kinematics
AS Level Further Pure
1 Complex Numbers
2 Argand Diagrams
3 Series
4 Roots of Polynomials
5 Volumes of Revolution
6 Matrices
7 Linear Transformations
8 Proof by Induction
9 Vectors
A Level Further Pure
1 Complex Numbers
2 Series
3 Methods in calculus
4 Volumes of revolution
5 Polar coordinates
6 Hyperbolic functions
7 Methods in differential equations
8 Modelling with differential equations