MATHS REVISION PAGE
I have just retired from the University of Portsmouth where in my in final few years I was tasked with teaching Foundation Maths to students from a range of backgrounds. The standard fell somewhere between GCSE and A level Maths. I might do some tutoring in the future, but not this year as I don't know the syllabus well enough to provide the level of professionalism I would want to.
This is just a site to help parents on Hayling with some additional Maths help for their children. It is not meant to take the place of attending lessons nor of on-to-one tutors if you are looking to pay for those. Instead these are, I hope, a helpful and cheap way of encouraging children to understand Maths. I am happy to add to the site if I spot helpful videos in the future.
A good site for general revision is the Khan Academy. This provides videos for different parts of a maths course and is aimed, I think, at the American market. I seem to be able to view the videos without paying, but if this becomes a problem then a lot of their videos can be accessed by Youtube. Use the search term 'Khan academy' and then any maths topic that you want to look up. The Khan Academy also support an interesting video - Everything you need to pass GCSE Maths Exam. Just type in this as search term in Youtube and it should take you to a 2 hour video!
Another potential group of videos is Teaching GCSE Maths. There are meant to be over 500 short videos, but not sure they cover all the Maths course personally. They still provide a useful set of short video introductions for some topics.
Pearson Edexcel also provide free videos that cover the maths course, although these videos are longer than some others.
In addition to these courses it might also be useful to look up online calculators for formula. When running the Foundation course the one thing that really surprised me being old, was how many online calculators for formula there were that provided workings for students. This means that they can find the answer and be provided with workings out so they can see how to do it - hopefully meaning that they won't just look at the answers and write them down or is that just me being overly naïve! One thing to watch out for with these sites, however, is that there may be a limit to the number of 'free' gos you can have on some sites before a charging page pops up. The ones below are just those I have picked out from a brief scan of the web - there will be others and they may be better!
Logs/Exponentials and calculator
Hope the above helps.
Please get in touch if you want more added, although it may a take a while for me to get around to it.
My email is robert.inkpen@port.ac.uk
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