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Category Archives: Maths
Advent Calendar: Day 13 – Time for Maths
Welcome to Day13 of Better Tuition’s Winter Advent Activity Calendar. Today we have a set of Christmas maths problems for you. Return to our advent calendar. Today is Tuesday, 13th December 2022. The current time is 10:03. The start of December 2022 was at 00:00 … Continue reading
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Tagged maths, time problems, winter maths problems, word problems
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Advent Activity Calendar – Day 8 – Properties of Shape
Welcome to Day 8 of our Advent Activity Calendar. Let’s take a look at the presents under the Christmas tree and answer some questions. 1. What shape are all three gifts? 2. How many vertices does each gift have? 3.The … Continue reading
Free and Low-Cost Downloads from Better Tuition
We have recently updated our download store so that it’s even more straightforward to use. If you haven’t visited it yet, do take a look: you will find FREE practice entrance exam/ 11 plus papers, covering maths, English, verbal and … Continue reading
GCSE Maths Tuition: 8-Week Grade Booster
Is your Year 11 child struggling to get to grips with the new GCSE Maths syllabus? As the date of the examinations draws nearer, many students are finding that higher expectations, combined with a broader range of questions add up … Continue reading
Posted in GCSE, Key Stage 4, Maths
Tagged GCSE Maths Grade Booster, GCSE MATHS TUITION, maths tuition
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Multiple GCSE resits: do we need a change?
“Almost 80% of pupils in England who do not achieve a C grade in GCSE maths or English fail to attain this mark during their resits. It is leaving hundreds of thousands of students stuck in a cycle of exams.” … Continue reading
Posted in English, GCSE, Key Stage 4, Maths, Opinion
Tagged GCSE resits, new GCSEs 2017
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2014 SATs Diary
2014 Key Stage 2 SATs tests are to take place from 12-16 May. Schools have been asked to keep this period free for administering the tests. The levels 3-5 tests must be taken before the corresponding level 6 tests on … Continue reading
The New Maths Curriculum 2014: your 12-point summary
The government is making significant changes to the national maths curriculum. The new maths curriculum will be officially introduced in September 2014 but many schools have adapted their curriculum to teach the new maths programmes of study this year. Not … Continue reading
New national curriculum 2014 and beyond: how will this affect my child?
Parents: take a deep breath and read on. There are huge changes afoot in education from early years to GCSE. From Ullswater to Urmston and from Streatham to Stretford, parents are struggling to grasp the serpentine twists and turns in … Continue reading
December 23rd: time for maths
Welcome to Day 23 of Better Tuition’s Winter Advent Activity Calendar. Today we have a set of Christmas maths problems for you. They’re quite tricky: perhaps the whole family could compete to complete them correctly! Return to our advent calendar. Today is Monday, 23rd December … Continue reading
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Tagged advent calendar, maths problems, online advent calendar
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December 22nd: More Maths
Welcome to Day 22 of Better Tuition’s Winter Advent Activity Calendar. Today we have a Christmas maths problem for you. Return to our advent calendar. Santa visits eight houses in twenty minutes. In each he eats the following amounts of mince pie: 2, 4, 1, … Continue reading
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