Each week we set all our Year 11 Higher GCSE students a GCSE Essential Skills Quiz from my Diagnostic Questions website. These quizzes are completely free and are designed to test the content that appears on the majority of GCSE higher maths papers. These are the kind of questions that students should get right, but which time and time again cost our Year 11s the valuable marks that prevent them getting the grade they want.
What mistakes do students make when representing a situation as an algebraic expression?
Assess your Year 11 GCSE maths students to test their essential maths skills each week.
Key misconceptions students have in simplifying algebraic expression and collecting like terms. GCSE Essential Skills Maths Quiz from Diagnostic Questions
What misconceptions do students have with the order of operations, otherwise knows as BIDMAS, BODMAS or PEDMAS?
What misconceptions do students have when it comes to understanding and interpreting algebraic expressions?
What misconceptions do students have with tree diagrams involving independent events and decimals?
What mistakes do students make when filling in data and interpreting information from a two way table?
What misconceptions do GCSE students have when it comes to more challenging questions about the mean of a set of numbers?
What misconceptions do GCSE Maths students have when it comes to plotting cumulative frequency diagrams from grouped data?
What misconceptions do GCSE students have when squaring negative numbers in the context of a table of values for a quadratic graph?