A new series of comprehensive Functional Skills Maths books now available from talented mathematician and teacher Marsida Horeshka who you may already know from her popular Functional Skills maths site https://marscademy.com/(previously known as Maths Made Fun). The three Entry Level books are now available on Amazon (and soon from other booksellers).
This blog offers plenty of valuable information such as:
A complete and up-to-date guide about the Maths GCSE exams that students can use to inform themselves and get ahead in preparing for the said exam.
This blog is produced by the recruitment agency Engage Education and covers a wide variety of issues relevant to teachers. It includes advice on how to be a better teacher in the classroom, advice on how teachers can best manage their career, how to look after themselves outside of the school, and so on.
This resource is intended for pupils sitting their GCSE exams in 2019 and offers a range of useful revision tips and techniques to aid in preparation for such a key period.
A tutoring platform helping to connect local tutors to students. Tutorfair also promises that for every student who pays, they make a donation to help a student who can't. So far they have helped thousands of learners from challenging schools, giving free tuition to 7778 students in 21 different schools.
This is a site that produces word wheels (the ones you have to cut out and stick with a brass paper fastener). There are loads of pre-set ones that you can just download and print out, or you can make your own relatively easily. This site requires Flash, but is very slick!
Functional Skills text books are a rare commodity and this pair of Level 2 Functional English books fills a well-needed gap. They’ve been written with the Edexcel on-screen reading and writing assessments in mind, but are ideal for learners taking paper-based or online Functional Skills assessments from any awarding body.
Four ratio questions presented visually. Covers dividing in a ratio, finding one share if you know the other, a question about adding more people to balance a ratio, and a question about simplifying a ratio in the context of a pictogram.
Their Functional Maths and English titles are well worth a look. At long last a publisher is providing an affordable yet high quality option for tutors and students.
Six titles are available: E3, L1 & L2 for both subjects.