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Maths
Further Mathematics Support Programme
Year 9 Exams
The Year 9 end of year exam will be a mock examination for AQA GCSE Maths Unit 2.. This will be on 20th June 2012 in the Sport's Hall.
The results will be used for Year 10 maths setting.
AQA Online Assessment
Improve your grades by assessing yourself online at the AQA exam board site. An enormous selection of tests on numerous topics are available. To log on to the AQA site -
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Go to the website https://aqa.openassess.co.uk/openassess/login.aspx
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On your first visit click on Create Learner Account and enter your details. You will need the school centre number 38175. Ensure you remember the username and password that you create.
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Choose your topic and level to create an online test.
CCHS Mathematics Challenge
On July 14th six local primary schools entered teams in the Carleton Community High School Mathematics Challenge. The winning team was Larks Hill J&I School and below is a photo of the learners involved.
World Book Week
To help celebrate World Book Week, the Maths department joined forces with the library to create a Maths treasure hunt. Groups from year 7 took part in the challenge, to decipher the missing clues and solve the maths riddle. This took them an hour to complete and those successful in the task were rewarded with pirate treasure! Below are some photographs of the activity.
To download a copy of this poster click here.
How can I help my child with their maths?
Every child at Carleton Community High School has their own personal username and password for the web site www.mymaths.co.uk. Although regular homework revision tasks are set on this site for completion outside the classroom all the tasks can be attempted at any time you wish. The web site includes on line lessons to help revise the topic and support any child that has been absent.
For years 9, 10 and 11, you can also obtain a homework book from school for a deposit of £5 payable to the school bursar. It has lots of revision exercises to practice new material taught in lessons. This book also contains a very useful CD-Rom with an electronic copy of the text book used in school maths lessons. The £5 deposit is refundable when the book is returned to the bursars in a good condition.
All learners also have access to the school VLE where past exam papers and mark schemes can be downloaded for enjoyment and practice!
You can also purchase to keep a Maths-Watch CD-Rom that contains mathematics video clips. Two discs are available. A level 3 to 5 disc for £3 recommended for years 7 and 8. A key stage 4 disc recommended for current year 9, 10 & 11 for £4 (this item is a DVD). As with the homework book pay your money into the bursar’s office and take the receipt to Mr N Parkinson, Head of Maths.
Calculators can also be purchased from school via the bursar’s office; £5 for a scientific calculator and £1.50 for a basic calculator (foundation tier only). A personal calculator is required for MOST exams.
Have fun, Maths is a very satisfying and enjoyable subject.
A Level Masterclass
On Thursday September 30th, four Year 10 learners went to Queen Elizabeth Grammar School to take part in an A level masterclass with pupils from Kings, QEGS and Wakefield Girls High School. This Thursday, October 7th, we have a similar event for Year 11 learners to be held here at Carleton, but run by Mr Dean Bunnell, the ex-head of maths from QEGS. Mr Bunnell works with the UK Maths Trust and sets some of the challenge questions as well as running various maths competitions across the country.
Mathematical Masters of the Month.We've started a new reward scheme in maths called Mathematical Masters of the Month. Year7 Year8 Year9 Year10 Year11 |
On Thursday 8th July, 2010 we took 34 year 9 mathematicians to N.E.W. College to see the Dr Colin Wright, Juggling Talk.
They were entertained and inspired by his description of how he 'invented' the mathematics of juggling during his undergraduate years and used this to discover new juggling tricks and explain those described in writings found from 5000 years ago in Egypt.
He has a Ph.D. from Cambridge and has worked as a research mathematician, and done research in computing. His day job is developing systems to do the maritime version of Air Traffic Control, and in his "free time" he travels around the world giving lectures on what maths can be interesting, fun, useful and even on occasion, exciting.
| On Thursday June 10th we had twelve Y8 pupils going to Leeds University for a Maths taster day. They were be able to look around the University and also to do some maths workshops which this year include maths 'tricks'. A report of how the visit went, and hopefully some photos, will appear on the site a.s.a.p. |
Trip to EdenCamp
On Tuesday 9th March a group of Gifted and Talented KS3 learners went to Eden Camp where they saw a presentation on Cryptography and the Enigma Machine. They also took part in code breaking exercises before touring the camp. The day was organised under the auspices of Cambridge University.
Trip to West Yorkshire Playhouse
On Thursday 11th a group of twelve Year 10 and 11 learners went to the West Yorkshire Playhouse to see a Maths inspirational event. They were accompanied by learners from The Kings High School, QEGS and Wakefield Girls High School. More information can be found on the website at
http://www.mathsinspiration.com/events.html
If you are doing GCSE in Maths this year and next year, you will find the following resources on VLE.
GCSE Past Papers
GCSE Text Books
MathsWatch Videos.
MathsWatch Worksheets and answers
Click on the VLE link to the left of this page and log on. You will find the resources in myclasses/GCSE Maths' Resources.
