—·GCSE · Mathematics

GCSE Mathematics: how each board marks it

AQA · OCR · Pearson Edexcel — a separate book for each

The assessment objectives below are worded almost identically whichever board you teach. What differs is the weight each one carries, and that is what decides where a department spends its time. Each book quotes its own board's specification word for word, and opens at its first fifteen pages here.

The assessment objectives

AO1 Use and apply standard techniques
AO2 Reason, interpret and communicate mathematically
AO3 Solve problems within mathematics and in other contexts

Read off the GCSE Mathematics specification. The weightings, the mark scheme levels and what separates a middle answer from a top one are set out board by board inside each book.

3 books, one per board

GCSE · 38 pages each · first 15 pages open

Mathematics · GCSE · AQA £4.99

GCSE Mathematics — AQA

AQA only — AQA GCSE Mathematics (8300). A working manual for a GCSE mathematics department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that

AO1 Use and apply standard techniques
AO2 Reason, interpret and communicate mathematically
AO3 Solve problems within mathematics and in other contexts

AQA GCSE Mathematics (8300) · 38 pages, 31 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

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Mathematics · GCSE · OCR £4.99

GCSE Mathematics — OCR

OCR only — OCR GCSE (9–1) Mathematics (J560). A working manual for a GCSE mathematics department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that

AO1 Use and apply standard techniques
AO2 Reason, interpret and communicate mathematically
AO3 Solve problems within mathematics and in other contexts

OCR GCSE (9–1) Mathematics (J560) · 38 pages, 31 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

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Mathematics · GCSE · Pearson Edexcel £4.99

GCSE Mathematics — Pearson Edexcel

Pearson Edexcel only — Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Mathematics (1MA1). A working manual for a GCSE mathematics department. It moves in one direction — specification, curriculum, teaching, assessment, intervention, examination — because that is the order in which the decisions get made. Part One is the only board-specific part, and it is quoted verbatim. Everything after it is subject pedagogy that

AO1 Use and apply standard techniques
AO2 Reason, interpret and communicate mathematically
AO3 Solve problems within mathematics and in other contexts

Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) Mathematics (1MA1) · 38 pages, 31 sections · For teachers, heads of department and SLT — not a student revision guide

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