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Advice for resitting WJEC GCSE Maths

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MerylSqueak · 07/09/2024 12:58

My dd sat Foundation Maths and got an F. She got good passes in other subjects but numbers have always been a real weakness.

School are providing 1 lesson a week focused on Intermediate. She really wants to get it but I don't think this will be enough for her.

Apart from a Maths tutor, how can I best support her.? I've got the course book and we've agreed to do some together every evening. I'm a EAL TA in her school so know a fair few of the methods from sitting in classes and also an ex-teacher in a humanities subject. She works well with me but I do feel a bit daunted

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Lampzade · 07/09/2024 14:33

Corbetts five a day are great. All my dds used this for GCSE maths.
They have different levels so your dd can start at the basic numeracy sheets and work her way up to Foundation , then Foundation Plus which are the slightly harder foundation questions. there are worked answers
I think it is vital to ensure that all her basic skills are up to scratch. So she should know her tables by heart .
I used to give my dcs random multiplication and division. Two minutes to answer about thirty questions.
These skills are vital for areas such as algebra.
Ensure that she is ok with negative numbers., shapes, basic percentages etc
Practise past papers

MerylSqueak · 07/09/2024 16:11

Thank you for these suggestions. I will use them for sure.

Her basic skills are reasonable. She does learn. She has got much stronger over the last year.

I'm wondering if I should focus on the topics she takes more to and ignore some others. That's what I've done in school before and it has worked. For example, one child loved doing simultaneous equations but could not deal with trigonometry at all, so I left it. It did work for them but do you think this is too risky a strategy?

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MerylSqueak · 07/09/2024 16:15

By 'left it' I mean that i didn't choose to cover it in pre / post tutoring because they gated it and there were dozens of other things to work on with them.

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