SIXTH FORM

GCSE Re-Sit Mathematics

Board: Edexcel

General Course Description:

This course will revise and reinforce the skills acquired during previous study in order to enable students to raise their achievement to grade 4 or above. Students must attend all lessons and do all homework if they are to be entered for the examination. Help will be given to improve your understanding, concentrating on mainly grade 4+5 topics and examination practice.

Content:

• Number - worded problems, standard form, indices, percentages, ratio, fractions and decimals

• Algebra - simplifying expressions, solving equations, expanding brackets, plotting graphs

• Shape and Space - Pythagoras, trigonometry, transformations, area and volume, constructions

• Data Handling - probability, mean from grouped data, representing data in diagrams