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Total Maths Newsletter

Hello Colleague,

We hope all has been going well for you this term and your half-term break is full of good times.😊

The entries deadline for the summer 2024 exams is Wednesday 21 February. Please ensure your exams officer has made your entries by then.

Are you interested in marking with us in summer 2024? We still have spaces available to mark Core Maths, A Level Maths A, A Level Maths B (MEI), A Level Further Maths A and A Level Further Maths B (MEI). It’s a great opportunity to work within the exam system, as well as develop your own understanding of a qualification and how it is assessed.

The provisional summer 2025 exam timetables are now available on our key dates and timetables webpage. Please submit any feedback on these to the JCQ centre support by Friday 23 February.

As ever, please get in touch if you have any queries or if we can give you any further support. Our role is to support you as you deliver our qualifications.

Neil, Steven, Ruth, Caroline and Amy – your OCR Maths Subject Advisors 

maths@ocr.org.uk
@OCR_Maths
01223 553998
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2024 exams and formulae sheets
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As previously confirmed, students sitting GCSE (9-1) Maths in 2024 will receive a formulae sheet in their exams. Students sitting our Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Maths in 2024 will also receive an extra formulae sheet.

Our ‘Formulae sheet top tips’ guides for students are available for both GCSE (9-1) Maths and Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Maths.

To help you prepare students, pdf versions of the 2024 formulae sheets can be downloaded from Teach Cambridge, or from the GCSE (9-1) Maths and Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Maths ‘Assessment’ webpages.

For more information on 2024 formulae sheets, please see our recent subject update.

The entries deadline for the summer 2024 exams is Wednesday 21 February. Please ensure your exams officer has made your entries by then. 2024 exam timetables and key dates are available from our website.

Formulae sheets subject update
Updated A Level Maths Delivery Guide resources

We’ve published two newly updated Delivery Guides for both A Level Maths A and A Level Maths B (MEI).

For Pure, we have a new Section 1.01 Proof Delivery Guide. For Statistics, there’s a new Section 2.05 Statistical hypothesis testing Delivery Guide. Each reviews content from the past exam series and also includes links to a range of resources available online.
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To download these and all other Delivery Guides for our A Level Maths qualifications, log into Teach Cambridge, select your qualification, then go to ‘Teaching’ and then ‘Teaching delivery’.

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2024 professional development
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We’ve got many professional development courses coming up over the next month.

Find out more and secure your place now over on our maths professional development webpage.
  • Thursday 22 February - Enhancing your teaching: Efficient use of Technology in A Level Further Maths A and Further Maths B (MEI)
  • Monday 26 February - Enhancing your teaching: Efficient use of Technology in Core Maths
  • Tuesday 27 February - GCSE (9-1) Maths – Ask the Subject Advisor Q&A
  • Wednesday 28 February - Starting to teach A Level Further Maths B (MEI)
  • Thursday 29 February - A Level Maths A – Ask the Examiner Q&A (Pure content)

  • Monday 4 March - Choosing OCR Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Maths
  • Tuesday 5 March - A Level Further Maths A – Ask the Subject Advisor Q&A
  • Wednesday 6 March - A Level Maths B (MEI) – Ask the Examiner Q&A (Mechanics content)
  • Thursday 7 March - A Level Maths A – Ask the Examiner Q&A (Statistics content)
  • Tuesday 12 March - A Level Maths B (MEI) – Ask the Examiner Q&A (Statistics content)
  • Wednesday 13 March - A Level Further Maths B (MEI) – Ask the Examiner Q&A (Mandatory Pure content)
  • Thursday 14 March - A Level Maths A – Ask the Examiner Q&A (Mechanics content)
  • Monday 18 March - Enhancing your teaching: Efficient use of Technology in A Level Maths A and Maths B (MEI)
  • Tuesday 19 March - A Level Maths A – Ask the Subject Advisor Q&A
  • Wednesday 20 March - A Level Maths B (MEI) – Ask the Subject Advisor Q&A

Materials from past sessions are available to you to download from Teach Cambridge. Select your qualification, then in the left-hand menu go to ‘Training’, then ‘Past training events’.

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Spring 2024 maths Teacher Network meetings

On Wednesday 28 February we’re running our GCSE (9-1) Maths spring term network. Get your free place now to hear us review the summer 2023 & November 2023 GCSE (9-1) Maths series and update you on the latest resources. You’ll also have a chance to network and ask any questions you need.

Booking is now available via our Teacher Networks webpage. You can also get your place early for next term’s A Level and Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Maths networks.
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Teacher Networks
Pre-release materials for Core Maths
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Pre-release materials for Core Maths A (H868) and Core Maths B (H869) summer 2024 exams will be published on Teach Cambridge on Friday 15 March.

To help support you, the Advanced Maths Support Programme (AMSP) are running online discussion meetings on the pre-release materials for OCR Core Maths A & B, on Tuesday 26 March (14:00-16:00) and Thursday 28 March (16:00-18:00). Book your place now.

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New blogs

Ruth and Steven have both recently published blogs to help support you.

Ruth has updated her popular ‘Resources for Core Maths’ blog. The blog now includes even more useful Core Maths resources, for both experienced and new Core Maths teachers.
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For Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Maths, Steven has written ‘Developing confidence with algebra’. In it he looks at how the FSMQ algebra content will also support students in their GCSE (9-1) Maths exams, as well as introducing them to the more formal approaches necessary for AS & A Level Maths. He also includes some suggestions for teaching ideas and resources.

Finally, Steven has also written ‘A Level Maths: what practice material is available?’, where he takes a look at the huge range of different A Level Maths practice materials available from our Teach Cambridge site to help students prepare for their exams.

Maths blogs

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