I've created 3 packs to help teachers and students explore the #coremaths preliminary 2026 material. They include possible links to the specification, a detective exercise and wider questions. I'll produce some exam-style questions later today too.
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A screenshot of the shadow papers
Exciting news for teachers of AQA #ALevelMaths, Further Maths and #CoreMaths - there are now shadow papers available for the 2025 series, on myAQA (the password protected bit) 🥳 Same questions, but slightly different numbers and answers. Good for mocks or retests/follow up to mocks.
#mathstoday #coremaths I can’t seem to find on AQA what area formulae or volume formulae core maths students may be expected to calculate. Thinking out party factory and not getting a handle
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In #mathstoday, I’ve tried something new when marking #coremaths mocks. To try & reduce the “where did I lose marks?” questions on the big Paper 1 mock questions, I’m trialling a sticker detailing what is needed for each mark, which I can tick as I go. Made estimation & tax/NI marking much easier 😁
In #MathsToday it's #CoreMaths preliminary material day!
I'm not actually teaching Core this year, but had a little nosy anyway. I see that for student loans, AQA has now included info on RPI/interest... very topical!
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Core Maths Pre-Release Meetings starting from 5 March 2026, sponsored by AQA, Edexcel and OCR.
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Core Maths Pre-Release Meetings starting from 5 March 2026, sponsored by AQA, Edexcel and OCR.
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Core Maths Pre-Release Meetings starting from 5 March 2026, sponsored by AQA, Edexcel and OCR.
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A sheet on the normal distribution using rules of thumb for proportions within 1, 2 or 3 standard deviations of the mean. There are three diagrams: one showing 68% of the distribution within 1 sd, a second showing 95% of the distribution within 2sd, and a third showing almost 100% within 3sd. Then there are 4 questions: 1. Masses of adult females of a species of dolphin are normally distributed with mean 220 kg and standard deviation 18 kg. What proportion of female dolphins of this species are between 202 kg and 256 kg in weight? 2. Heights of leprechauns are normally distributed with a mean of 1.2 m. 16 % of leprechauns are over 1.3 m tall. What proportion of leprechauns are under 1 m tall? 3. Harriet is studying a species of lizard. 2.5 % of them have masses under 20g, and 16 % of them have masses over 38 g. What is the mean mass of the lizards, assuming that their masses are normally distributed? 4. Harshant measures the heights of 400 sixteen year old boys. The tallest is 191 cm tall and the shortest is 158 cm tall. Estimate the probability that a randomly selected sixteen year old boy is between 169 cm and 180 cm tall. What assumptions are needed for this estimate to be valid?
Normal distributions in #CoreMaths this week. I like the approach of introducing calculations using the proportions within 1, 2 or 3 standard deviations of the mean to begin with. And thanks to @catrionaagg.bsky.social I always label inflection points.
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OCR core maths B, does anyone know if they have to be able to find probabilities for normal distributions from both the tables and calculator? Or can they choose which they use? #CoreMaths @paddymacmahon.com
So @lewisgoodall.com is wrong here. Not in every way, the threshold freezes are problematic. But I need to create a spreadsheet to prove it. Any #coremaths people out there want to try to create one too?
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Screenshot of a normal probability plot created using desmos (link in post)
Normal probability plots using @desmos.com in #CoreMaths #MathsToday.
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Not the 400,000,000th passenger, simply the 400,000,000th ticket issued. There’s no guarantee that they were all used, or indeed by completely different people.
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In #MathsToday it was my first day back teaching. #AlevelMaths derived the sine rule and cosine rule and asked some good questions about obtuse / acute angles. #CoreMaths mastered cumulative frequency graphs despite my poorly drawn free hand graphs after my screen broke mid lesson.
My family Spotify account costs £21.99 a month. Between the 5 of us who use it, I guess we stream maybe 3000-4000 songs a month, so the amount we pay per track is already less than 1p, so it sounds like this artist is doing pretty well.
I see the germ of a #CoreMaths problem...
Last week was tough so definitely need to look for some positives #weeklywins
- Full completion of homework from a group where previous week only 2 completed it.
- Surprisingly good understanding of AER in #coremaths, seems I’ve finally convinced them of the benefits of using percentage multipliers
Cambridge OCR Maths Team at the Oval for the PiXL conference. Neil taking the picture.
In #MathsToday at the Oval for PiXL Maths conference.
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Does anyone have a nice set of simple problems to apply the #coremaths modelling cycle to? The sort of thing where students could work in groups to fill out a template of the cycle and then present their findings.
