This is an intensive one year re-sit course aimed mainly at students who have previously taken a similar course in school. The course is aimed at supporting your progress from a GCSE grade 3 to a grade 4 minimum.
In exceptional circumstances students who demonstrate commitment and motivation will be capable of achieving a grade 4 within a single year.
Throughout the course there will be a real focus on identifying the gaps in your skills and then filling them using various teaching strategies. Teaching will focus on consolidating the fundamentals of maths, such as place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, percentages and ratio.
Students will be expected to come fully equipped to all lessons with a Maths set and scientific calculator (these can be purchased from the college, if required). We expect to have a supportive and collaborative team environment in the Maths classroom where students help one another, build their own confidence through discussions, explanations and demonstrations to become more able mathematicians.
The new GCSE has an increased focus on problem solving, reasoning, proportion and ratio. With this in mind students are likely to prepare using functional skills problems which are based on real life situations and will develop their thinking, logic and reasoning skills. Those who have already studied Maths functional skills qualifications will realise the benefits of that experience.
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