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Welcome back
Total Maths

Welcome to the latest edition of Total Maths! We hope you’ve had a great summer and are ready for the new term.

We’ve spent the summer putting together resources and events to support you all once back in the classrooms. We've also pulled together everything you need to support your planning, teaching and training in one place. On this new page you can find resources for planning and teaching, mock preparation and open days, upcoming professional development courses, key dates and more.  

Join us at one of our regional Teacher Networks later this term to hear all about how students performed in the summer 2019 assessments across qualifications, including an in depth look into GCSE (9-1) Mathematics performance.

For a summary of the latest updates and news regarding our qualifications and maths education, read on. 

If you have any questions or feedback, then please contact us. Our role is to support you as you deliver our qualifications.

Wishing you all a great start to the Autumn term,

Neil, Ruth, Caroline and Steven - your Maths Subject Advisors
maths@ocr.org.uk
@OCR_Maths
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Summer 2019 results
Results - key information

Key results information can be found on our website.

If you have a concern about a result there are a number of options available. Our post-results service webpage has all the information you need, including our very helpful ‘Post-results – which service do you need?’ flowchart.

Question papers, mark schemes, examiners’ reports and more from the summer 2019 series are now available securely via Interchange. These materials will remain securely available via Interchange until May 2020, when they will be moved to the public website.

Results information

Functional Skills new resources and professional development

The redeveloped Functional Skills qualifications are for first teaching from 1 September 2019, so any new students registering with you from now should be following these new qualifications.

Many new resources have been published in the last few weeks. These include Schemes of Work, delivery guides, activities and a command words poster. 
Functional skills maths qualification

Free Functional Skills maths webinars for the 2019-2020 year are now available to book. Additional professional development courses will be announced shortly.

Functional Skills resources

AS and A Level Further Maths B (MEI) resources
AS and A Level maths B - students in the classroom

Several new Check In resources have been published for AS and A Level Further Maths B (MEI).

For the Extra Pure option there is a new resource for Groups, while for Numerical Methods there are resources covering Errors, Numerical Differentiation and Solutions of Equations.

New Check In resources

Entry Level Certificate - updated materials

The specification, sample assessment materials, written tests and practical task guidance for our Entry Level Certificate in Mathematics (R449) have been updated for teaching from this September.

The two main changes are to the marking criteria for the practical task and the structure of the mark schemes.
Entry Level certificate for mathematics lesson

There have been no changes to the content of the specification or to any of the questions in the written tests. For more information on the changes please see the Subject Information Update.

Read the update 

2019-2020 professional development
Professional development courses 2019/2020

2019-2020 courses are now available to book on our website via the new professional development page. We will be adding further courses throughout the year.

Our new booking system is simpler, making it easier for you to search and book onto a course.

You will need to re-register the first time you book a course, but this log in can then be used for all future courses. Previous CPD Hub log in details will no longer work

View upcoming professional development

Core Maths name change & conferences from the AMSP

Please remember that we've now changed the names of our Core Maths qualifications.

Quantitative Reasoning (H866) has now been changed to Core Maths A (H868) and Quantitative Problem Solving (H867) to Core Maths B (H869).
Advanced mathematics support programme

The Advanced Maths Support Programme (AMSP) is also running a series of Core Maths webinars and conferences in autumn 2019. This includes Core Maths Conferences: Teaching Quantitative Skills at A Level (28 Sep & 7 Nov), Core Maths Teaching Webinars (2 Oct) and the final two dates of the Summer & Autumn Series of Core Maths Conferences (11 & 14 Oct). These and more can be found at the AMSP’s events page.

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