Panic! What to learn?
Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2013 12:55 pm
Firstly, I've never been to this section before... so Hi!
Years have passed since my earlier children sat the 11+ but now with my youngest child we find ourself faced with a test which now has a Maths element.
We have been sitting down and looking at some materials including her school studies, BBC bitesize and a revision guide I bought recently. I realised that the 11+ Maths could very likely cover topics from Yr6 that she has not yet covered so I thought I should have a look at the Syllabus. (I can do Maths, me.)
Anecdotal evidence suggests that we should look at material up to Level 6. (My daughter is already on track for Level 5+ at school) so I bought a specifically Level 6 revision guide.
After working through a couple of sections picked at random I've come to the conclusion that we might be learning the wrong thing!
In particular the revision guide had a section on Straight Line graphs i.e. y=mx+c and the various topics around that... e.g. plot the line, find the intercept, positive and negative gradients, etc etc.... but the more I think about it the more I think this can't possibly come up; indeed the only question I've seen was from a level 6 paper which asked if a particular point satisifed the line y=3x; nothing to do with finding m or c!
Any suggestions on what to learn? I really don't want to destroy my daughter's confidence teaching irrelevant GCSE maths to a 10 year old!
Thanks in advance
SVE
Years have passed since my earlier children sat the 11+ but now with my youngest child we find ourself faced with a test which now has a Maths element.
We have been sitting down and looking at some materials including her school studies, BBC bitesize and a revision guide I bought recently. I realised that the 11+ Maths could very likely cover topics from Yr6 that she has not yet covered so I thought I should have a look at the Syllabus. (I can do Maths, me.)
Anecdotal evidence suggests that we should look at material up to Level 6. (My daughter is already on track for Level 5+ at school) so I bought a specifically Level 6 revision guide.
After working through a couple of sections picked at random I've come to the conclusion that we might be learning the wrong thing!
In particular the revision guide had a section on Straight Line graphs i.e. y=mx+c and the various topics around that... e.g. plot the line, find the intercept, positive and negative gradients, etc etc.... but the more I think about it the more I think this can't possibly come up; indeed the only question I've seen was from a level 6 paper which asked if a particular point satisifed the line y=3x; nothing to do with finding m or c!
Any suggestions on what to learn? I really don't want to destroy my daughter's confidence teaching irrelevant GCSE maths to a 10 year old!
Thanks in advance
SVE