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Total Maths Newsletter

Hello Colleague,

We hope you've enjoyed a well-deserved relaxing break and that all is looking good for the start of the new term. 😊

If you’ve entered students for OCR GCSE (9-1) Maths in summer 2024, remember that you can still amend their tier of entry free of charge until Sunday 21 April.

If you’d like to mark with us in summer 2024, we now have some new examiner vacancies. You can now apply to mark GCSE (9-1) Maths this summer. Additionally, we do still have spaces for summer 2024 examiners of A Level Maths A, A Level Maths B (MEI) and A Level Further Maths A. Marking is a great opportunity to work within the exam system, as well as develop your own understanding of a qualification and how it’s assessed.

We’re always interested in hearing your views on any of our maths qualifications, but right now one of our Qualifications Product Managers, Sarah Gotting, would be particularly keen to hear your views on GCSE (9-1) Maths and the future of the qualification. If you’d be happy to share your thoughts, please book a short Teams call with her.

As ever, if you have any queries or we can give you any further support, do let us know. Our role is to support you as you deliver our qualifications.

Neil, Caroline, Amy, Steven and Ruth – 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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For summer 2024, remember that:

Download the 2024 formulae sheets from the links above or from Teach Cambridge.

To help you prepare students, our ‘Formulae sheet top tips’ guides are available for both GCSE (9-1) Maths and Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Maths.

There are also formulae tests for GCSE (9-1) Maths and Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Maths available from Teach Cambridge. For GCSE (9-1) Maths, in the menu go to ‘Assessment’, then ‘Exams’, then ‘Practice materials’ and scroll to the bottom. For Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Maths, in the menu go to ‘Teaching’, then ‘Progress checking’, then ‘Section check in tests’.

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

The 2024 exam timetables and key dates are available from our website and as mentioned above, remember you can still amend a student’s tier of entry for GCSE (9-1) Maths free of charge until Sunday 21 April.

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2024 professional development

We’ve still got many professional development courses between now and the end of the academic year. Book your place now over on our maths professional development webpage. The below are coming up in the next couple of months.
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  • Thursday 18 April - A Level Maths B (MEI) exam review
  • Thursday 25 April - Choosing OCR Core Maths A and Core Maths B
  • Monday 24 June - Enhancing your teaching: Supporting progression from GCSE to A Level Maths B (MEI)
  • Tuesday 25 June – Choosing OCR GCSE (9-1) Maths
  • Wednesday 26 June – Enhancing your teaching: Supporting progression from GCSE to A Level Maths 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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A Level and FSMQ network meetings
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Coming up soon are our summer term network meetings. Come along and we’ll give you an overview of planned resources and our professional development programme, share revision and assessment ideas for the summer exam series and also look ahead to 2024/25.

  • Thursday 25 April – A Level Maths
  • Thursday 2 May – A Level Further Maths
  • Thursday 9 May – Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Maths

Book your free place now via our Teacher Networks webpage.

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New Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Maths resources

For Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Maths, we’re going back and revisiting some of our section check in tests to update them and add in even more support for you.

The newly published versions now meet our latest accessibility guidelines and we’ve also taken the opportunity to add in 5 new questions to each, to increase the support across the specification.
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Now published are the new tests for algebra, calculus, coordinate geometry, enumeration & Pythagoras' theorem and trigonometry. You can download them from Teach Cambridge (in the menu go to ‘Teaching’, then ‘Progress checking’, then ‘Section check in tests’).

The remaining updated section check in tests will be published shortly.

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Entry Level Maths – moderation deadline
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The deadline for submitting marks for moderation for our Entry Level Certificate in Mathematics (R449) is Wednesday 15 May.

Forms are available from the ‘Administration’ area of the qualification webpage.

Schools and colleges are advised to hold onto their sample until a moderator’s address is sent.

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New Maths blogs

We’ve published several new blogs for you over the last month.

Steven’s first new blog is ‘Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Maths – introducing the enumeration section’. In this he takes a look at the qualification’s enumeration content and shares some ideas for delivering it. This follows on from his earlier blog on Level 3 FSMQ: Additional Maths algebra content.
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Steven’s second new blog is ‘A Level Further Maths: what practice material is available?’. Here he reviews the range of exam support available for both A Level Further Maths A and A Level Further Maths B (MEI) to help prepare your students.

Finally, Ruth has updated her ‘Core Maths - a quantitative skills boost for social science students’ blog, now including links to even more resources and support for you.

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