Support for Secondary Maths

Maths Progress (Second Edition) builds on our well-loved series, cutting-edge approaches, your feedback and more to boost students’ confidence at Key Stage 3 and give them the best preparation for progressing to GCSE study and beyond.

The Maths Progress (Second Edition) series editors have pulled together this handy document summarising how the series can help you and your students with returning to school.

How does Maths Progress (Second Edition) support every learning journey?

Teach

• Well-paced and structured Core Curriculum so that you can feel secure about coverage and confident that the progress rate for your students is appropriate.
• Tried-and-tested differentiation with a unique personalised approach enables students to get the right level of support to strengthen their understanding and progress.
• Suitable for blended learning with both a physical and online textbook.
• The iSoW allows you to change the order of teaching topics and alerts you if a topic requires prior knowledge, thus supporting you to adapt your planning.

Practice 

• You can be confident that there is more meaningful practice built in across the series than ever before:
  • signposted exercises to boost reasoning skills, fluency and reflection
  • clear problem-solving practice throughout.
• Purposeful Practice Books – help students build their skills by taking small steps to consolidate knowledge and boost confidence.

Assess

• In-built progression and tests throughout the books and Progress & Assess on ActiveLearn to help you to identify any gaps and make the right interventions to get students back on track.

Accelerate learning

• Extra skills-building support and practice to consolidate learning.
• Support Books – provide extra scaffolding and support on key concepts for each lesson in the Core Curriculum, providing strengthening skills and knowledge for students to work on the topics they need to revisit.
• Guidance for students, including: worked examples, key points, hints and videos available on ActiveLearn.
• ActiveLearn homework for each lesson gives extra practice and consolidation.
  

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Free KS3 Maths resources from Pearson Edexcel that are perfectly aligned to Maths Progress (Second Edition).

We recognise the importance of the non-examined years in developing confident, capable mathematicians which is why we have created a comprehensive package to help you ensure your students develop the key skills they need at Key Stage 3.

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At Pearson we know that one of the biggest challenges is the transition from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 3.

Knowing what pupils have been taught at primary school is key to a continuous approach and embedding mastery principles. Bridging the gaps between Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3, without losing engagement, is essential for giving the best preparation for progressing to GCSE study and beyond.

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Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9−1) Mathematics Second Edition builds on the best of our well-loved series, your feedback, and an independent research study to engage your students, boost their mathematical confidence and give them the best preparation for GCSE and beyond.

The Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Mathematics Second Edition series editors have pulled together this handy document summarising how the new series can help you and your students with returning to school.

Teach

• Well-paced and structured Core Curriculum so you can feel secure about coverage and confident that the progress rate is appropriate:
  • improved pacing of questions to bolster every student's progress for each topic, including new 'Mixed exercise' sections.
• Tried-and-tested differentiation with a unique personalised approach which enables students to get the right level of support to strengthen their understanding and progress.
• Suitable for blended learning with both a physical and online textbook.
• The iSoW allows you to change the order of teaching topics and alerts you if a topic requires prior knowledge, thus supporting you to adapt your planning.

Practice

• Extensive opportunities for practice, including: mixed exercises, problem-solving and reasoning questions, deep learning activities and online exercises in ActiveLearn.
• Purposeful Practice Books – these help students build their skills by taking small steps to consolidate knowledge and boost confidence.

Assess

• In-built progression and tests throughout the books and Progress & Assess on ActiveLearn to help you to identify any gaps and make the right interventions to get students back on track:
  • prior knowledge check for each unit
  • check up test in each unit groups questions by topic, to identify the specific areas where students need support
  • formative assessment questions throughout check on students’ progress and learning and provide a route to further guidance or extension
  • 76 assessments, including baseline tests
    
  • online markbooks track students’ strengths and weaknesses, so you can see if individual or whole-class interventions are needed
    
  • an optional Assessment Builder tool enables you to create your own assessments based on GCSE (9–1) Maths questions to help diagnose area that need intervention.

Accelerate learning

• Extra skills-building support and practice to consolidate learning.
• 'Strengthen' section in each chapter provides structured support for students to work at their own pace on the topics they need to revisit.
• Higher and Foundation crossover content clearly marked to help with tiering decisions.
• Guidance for students, including worked examples, key points, hints and videos available on ActiveLearn.
• ActiveLearn homework for each lesson gives extra practice and consolidation.

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The transition from GCSE Maths to A level Maths can be challenging but with plenty of practice, it most certainly is a rewarding experience.

We have created over 120 free videos for students that cover a range of topics and are accompanied by example questions, over 100 practice questions and end of chapter exam questions.

Explore the videos

Recordings of all our previous online network events are available for you to watch on our YouTube channel.

See the full playlist on our YouTube channel