This is such a retrograde step. With all the gaming of the past, and the dearth of arts and languages at GCSE and A Level, why can people not see the net effect will be less maths overall, as fewer students do the double subject. It's not a linked-pair pilot!

Oh no, not this again

GCSE Mathematics: From 1988-2002 students were given formulae sheets From 2003-2007 students were given formulae sheets From 2008-2011 students were given formulae sheets From 2012-2016 students were given formulae sheets From 2017-2019 students weren’t given formulae sheets

Theres always a consultation www.gov.uk/government/c...

Surprised to see the issue of remembering maths formulas is exercising so many people who don’t have to remember maths formulas

If only we could have predicted that formulae sheets for GCSE would continue to be used for ever

Ofqual would need four meetings and a public consultation before getting out of the way of a moving train tbh www.tes.com/magazine/new...

Modular exams - still popular where you can get them www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The lovely people at Waterstones are offering a 25% pre-order discount…Maths Revolution www.waterstones.com/campaign/feb... FEB25 is the code at checkout #WPreorder @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

I see AQA has moved the timeline from “GCSEs onscreen by 2025” to “maybe some GCSEs onscreen by 2040”

Some selected STEM subject combinations chosen by students in England who took A level Maths in 2025 (with 2024 for comparison) explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statist...

I’ve seen a proof copy of this and it’s excellent throughout - a must for anyone teaching GCSE Maths

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A level Maths has the highest completion rate, but quite a few drop outs from Further Maths from high prior attainers - to be expected?

It’s less than 500 days until the summer 2027 GCSE Maths exams, with a month separating paper 1 and paper 3. Pearson’s provisional timetable is available and you have until 20 March to feedback any concerns qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/...

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Good to see Ofqual have taken up my suggestion on re-marks today news.sky.com/story/cause-...

Feels like ages since “maths” and “not adding up” appeared in the same headline www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...

The government is rehauling England's curriculum and assessment system following Prof Becky Francis' review last year - but they're not doing it alone. We've got the full list of all the experts who will be drafting subject content for the revised curriculum: www.tes.com/magazine/new...

GCSE Maths resit entries are up on last November by 4.6% to 75203, but the number achieving grade 4 or above has stayed much the same (well, up by 0.5%) at 16800 or so (allowing for rounding errors)

Cumulative grade distributions for GCSE Maths by board: November exams 2017-2025

GCSE maths grade boundaries for Nov '25. mathsbot.com/gcse/boundar...

GCSE Mathematics Grade Boundaries for November exams 2017–2025 Foundation Tier (to be updated for Eduqas when they post theirs)

GCSE Maths resits results out tomorrow! No doubt there will be much lamenting about the 20-25% Grade 4+ statistic, but it still means there will be around 17,000 celebrating, around 10,000 of those now in Year 12; congratulations to those students and let’s accentuate the positive

Well, if you’re going to cheat on an exam…

Beef up your #coremaths

In the UK there would just be a petition www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

I’m old enough to remember when AQA used to routinely promise this by 2025 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Petition for another budget after the first one was leaked

New GCSE exams in 2031 then - start preparing your Year 6 now! Plenty of time to reduce the number of exam papers, replace the 9-1 grading system with A-E and maybe even scrap exact trig values in Foundation tier Maths

#GCSEMaths Foundation tier resit November 2025 countdown in days featuring European trams: 0 - Raxstraße/Rudolfshügelgasse to Bruno-Marek-Allee, Vienna (pic credit: @themathsbazaar.bsky.social)

Good luck to all those Year 12 resitting Foundation tier GCSE Maths this week - remember, about 10,000 students will achieve Grade 4 or better this time round, so be one of them and take the first exit off the “demoralising roundabout” (© Jacqui Smith)

#GCSEMaths Foundation tier resit November 2025 countdown in days featuring European trams: 1 - Ribera to Foz, Porto

#GCSEMaths Foundation tier resit November 2025 countdown in days featuring European trams: 2 - Jászai Mari tér to Közvágóhíd

#GCSEMaths Foundation tier resit November 2025 countdown in days featuring European trams: 3 - Museispårvägen Malmö

#GCSEMaths Foundation tier resit November 2025 countdown in days featuring European trams: 4 - Zürich Tiefenbrunnen, Bahnhof to Zürich Altstetten, Bahnhof N (the Design & Culture line)

#GCSEMaths Foundation tier resit November 2025 countdown in days featuring European trams: 5 - Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam to Stadshart, Amstelveen

#GCSEMaths Foundation tier resit November 2025 countdown in days featuring European trams: 6 - Basel, Wiesenplatz to Allschwil, Dorf

#GCSEMaths Foundation tier resit November 2025 countdown in days featuring European trams: 7 - Nybroplan (Stockholm) to Liljevalc Gröna Lund

£10,000 question on Impossible

Looking forward to seeing what white working-class maths looks like

In LEUCHARS news #LargeDataSet

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If government are after parity of esteem for vocational quals, the process could be kickstarted by rebadging some A levels as V levels - for instance: Engineering, Business Studies, Law, Psychology, D&T, maybe some of the art subjects like Graphic Communication, etc

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Not long now until the least needed exam in England - the GCSE Maths resit at Higher tier, required by only ~1000 students. Good thing we’ve got four exam boards on the case, producing 11 different exam papers for it!

Good to see a current version of this ever-popular table (thanks Matt Man). You can assume, though, that many of the 9/A* students also took Further Maths

Resits aren’t endless - whether you get grade 4 or not, they come to an end www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Some interesting data on English and Maths resits - shows that very few students who achieved grades 1 or 2 for GCSE Maths go on to resit and achieve grade 4 or above ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2025/09/how-...

Want to get serious about your A level results? Get serious about maths. Students who do maths at A level do better overall in all other subjects

Venn diagrams showing some STEM combinations of three A levels chosen by 18-year old students, and outcomes compared to those nationally