This is a series of 22 homework assignments. Each page relates to the new GCSE specification grading structure (Page 6 is equivalent to Grade 6) with 15 marks available on each page and a style of questioning that allows for quick marking. For US users, the increasing complexity of the papers will ensure students can demonstrate what they already have learned while challenging themselves to advance their knowledge and understanding. The papers cover a broad range of topics and are designed to get students practising and extending themselves for examination preparation. They can be used successfully with any age, although younger students will naturally focus on the earlier pages of each assignment. The homework assignments are designed so that students can choose any four consecutive pages, or the teacher can designate which four consecutive pages the student should complete, hence targeting the ability of the student and always promoting the opportunity to challenge oneself. The monitoring document, therefore, allows for 4 consecutive page results to be input for each student, generating a percentage result and a ‘Page Progress’ result (which effectively determines the grade that the student achieves). These are easy to use, write on papers that have been used successfully to raise the attainment of Mathematics students at all ability levels at the College within which the author teaches.

This is one of the 22 homework documents that you can purchase; it is easy for students to write on, teachers are advised to print off any 4 consecutive pages for the students according to ability, there is a monitoring document available to record results and monitor progression, and a huge variety of topics are covered in every page ensuring excellent coverage of the Curriculum. This is both a revision and homework resource which is easy to mark. It is a precursor to my bundle of 36 GCSE assignments designed for the new specification 2016, and suitable for US teachers as an excellent set of resources to challenge students and evaluate progress.

Suitable either as a short activity, or a lesson or sequence of lessons; the excel document provides two worksheets each with a set of 6 scales and a variety of animals on each. The premise is simple, students must determine the weight of each animal. This is a simple introduction to Algebra, but can be seen as a simple problem solving activity. If the teacher starts by recording the 6 sets of scales as abstract algebra (eg c = 10, 2c = h, 2c + 2h = 2d based on the first set of scales), it is easy to share with students how much easier Algebra is when dealing with concrete (animals and pictures) as opposed to abstract (numbers and letters). To extend the students, and to create an excellent creative activity that is perfectly differentiated, ask students to create their own scales that 'build' towards a final unknown. The challenge is to ensure each scale is sequential, the 'Maths' works and the solution can be found, and the symbols or theme that the student chooses to use is manageable! I have had students create 'Christmas' themes with Father Christmas, reindeer, presents, elves etc, and students who have used simple quadrilateral shapes. They choose according to their artistic ability, and to the complexity of the problem they wish to create. Once created, the students have produced their own puzzles that their peers can attempt to solve at the beginning of the next lesson, evaluate in terms of difficulty, and offer words of advice on how the worksheet could be improved.

These worksheets are designed as general practice for the basic Grade 4 (core skills) and more advanced Grade 6 (extended skills) ability ranges. There is no 'Use and Application', and they are designed purely to get students to practise the broad range of methods and knowledge required to 'do' Mathematics. They are ordered in respect of Number, Algebra, Statistics and Geometry. The 8 pages are designed to be printed onto A3 folded sheets so that students have a write on resource with minimal printing required. The Mathematics 'Help Booklet' that I offer for free, and the 'Steps for Success' document, provide guidance to students to help with the completion of these papers. The back page of the 'Help Booklet' directly references each question of Core Skills into the booklet; for example, question 1b on the Algebra page is referenced to pages 21 and 26 respectively of the Help Booklet where structured models are available to show the process of factorising linear and quadratic expressions.

A summary worksheet that covers a range of questions about circles, including circumference and area. There are some applied, 'wordy' problems included on the second page.

A simple resource covering proper and improper fractions and the four operations; should take students between 30 and 40 minutes to complete with applied questions included.

A series of worksheets to provide practice for prime factor decomposition, writing values as products of prime factors, using decomposition to understand properties of square numbers and cube numbers, decompose algebraic terms, and apply decomposition to the process of finding HCF and LCM. This can be used in conjunction with my 'Steps for Success' document and the section on 'Factors and Multiples' in that document.

This is a series of 12 differentiated homework or revision resources. They are designed to be used in conjunction with my excel, 'Monitoring' document which allows for all results from the Statistics, Pure and Geometry series to be recorded. There are two versions of each assignment, Foundation (for low to middle ability students) and Higher (for middle to high ability students). They are designed for the new GCSE specification in the UK, and would suit any students within the same age range in other countries. This first series focuses on Statistics and Number. They are easy to mark and provide excellent feedback (the monitoring document allows for results in key topic areas to be analysed, as well as progression as students improve their knowledge and understanding. These assignments have led to sustained improvement of Mathematics results in the College in which the author teaches with students excelling at every ability range.

This is a series of 12 differentiated homework or revision resources. They are designed to be used in conjunction with my excel, 'Monitoring' document which allows for all results from the Statistics, Pure and Geometry series to be recorded. There are two versions of each assignment, Foundation (for low to middle ability students) and Higher (for middle to high ability students). They are designed for the new GCSE specification in the UK, and would suit any students within the same age range in other countries. This third series focuses on Geometry and Algebra. They are easy to mark and provide excellent feedback (the monitoring document allows for results in key topic areas to be analysed, as well as progression as students improve their knowledge and understanding. These assignments have led to sustained improvement of Mathematics results in the College in which the author teaches with students excelling at every ability range.

This is a series of 12 differentiated homework or revision resources. They are designed to be used in conjunction with my excel, 'Monitoring' document which allows for all results from the Statistics, Pure and Geometry series to be recorded. There are two versions of each assignment, Foundation (for low to middle ability students) and Higher (for middle to high ability students). They are designed for the new GCSE specification in the UK, and would suit any students within the same age range in other countries. This second series focuses on Number and Algebra. They are easy to mark and provide excellent feedback (the monitoring document allows for results in key topic areas to be analysed, as well as progression as students improve their knowledge and understanding. These assignments have led to sustained improvement of Mathematics results in the College in which the author teaches with students excelling at every ability range.

These documents provide teaching pedagogy for the majority of Statistics topics taught to ages 11 to 16. They explain first principle approaches to teaching Statistics to ensure long term understanding and to avoid the use of tricks! The mean, for example, is commonly taught as a method (sum the values and divide by the frequency), without exploring the impact of 'making the values all equal in size' and how this relates as an average (or means to describe or quantify "middleness").

This resource is accompanied by an answer document. It is aimed at students who have been taught probability and relative frequency. The questions include a wide range of contexts (with Venn diagrams, pie charts and various other diagrams requiring correct interpretation to derive relative frequency) and challenge students to calculate simple probabilities, and probabilities for dependent and independent events. A grading system based on the new GCSE specification is suggested, but this resource would be equally useful in the US. The paper can be printed onto a single A3 folded sheet and there are a total of 60 marks. It can be used as a homework or a revision resource, or to assess general understanding at the end of the topic with plenty of extension and differentiated content available.

A simple resource with two sides presenting 4 different real life graphs with applied questions provided. The worksheet should take between 15 and 20 minutes to complete and is intended as a plenary.

A simple resource covering simultaneous equations and solving by elimination, substitution and use of graphical methods.

These rubrics are designed to ensure students check the quality of their statistical diagrams before moving on, or asking the teacher if their diagram is correct and of a suitable standard. They share success criteria, ensure students are applying the models of self and peer assessment with structure, and simplify the process of monitoring the standard of student work when creating statistical diagrams.

A short summary worksheet on Pythagoras and simple trigonometry, best used as a starter activity or plenary once the basics have been taught; should take 10-15 minutes.

Practice questions covering a range of problems mainly involving compound growth. There are three questions at the beginning specifying 'simple' interest to remind students that there is a difference between simple growth and compound growth, but the bulk of the worksheet asks students to practice compounding interest over a specified number of time periods, and to apply reasoning to reverse the compounded growth in order to find the original amount.

Questions based on simplifying powers and roots with answers. This worksheet provides some summaric practice of the topic.

Worksheet comprising 4 sections to build understanding of direct and indirect (or inverse) proportion. Plenty of practice available to keep students occupied and to challenge students to ensure they are able to tackle problems successfully. This worksheet would work well with the 'Steps for Success' document that I have made available for free where a stepped approach for dealing with the topic is detailed.