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Comprehensive GCSE Maths Revision Overview

Apr 16, 2025

Cork Maps Ultimate GCSE Foundation Revision Video

Overview

  • The video covers every topic on the GCSE Foundation Maths course.
  • Intended for students preparing for GCSE Foundation Maths exams or for brushing up math skills.
  • Features a booklet with nearly 400 questions, one for each topic covered.
  • Topics are organized into categories: number, ratio and proportion; geometry and measures; algebra; statistics and probability.

Topics Covered

Number, Ratio, and Proportion

  • Writing numbers in words and figures.
  • Place values, operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division).
  • Round numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, decimal places, and significant figures.
  • Order and compare numbers.
  • Understand fractions, decimals, percentages, and how to convert between them.
  • Solve problems involving percentages: increase, decrease, reverse percentages, and percentage change.
  • Understand simple and compound interest.
  • Use ratios and proportions: simplifying, sharing in a ratio, writing ratios as fractions or percentages.
  • Learn about the metric system and convert between units.

Geometry, Shape, Space, and Measures

  • Identify types of angles (acute, right, obtuse, reflex) and angle relationships (complementary, supplementary).
  • Calculate perimeters and areas of various shapes, including compound shapes.
  • Understand circle terminology: radius, diameter, circumference, and calculate them.
  • Solve problems involving surface area and volume for 3D shapes including prisms, cylinders, cones, pyramids, and spheres.
  • Learn about symmetry and transformations (translations, rotations, reflections).
  • Use scales and maps.
  • Understand bearings, draw accurate diagrams using compasses and protractors.

Algebra

  • Understand algebraic notation and form expressions.
  • Simplify algebraic expressions, including collecting like terms and expanding brackets.
  • Solve linear equations and inequalities, including those with variables on both sides.
  • Understand and manipulate indices.
  • Factorize algebraic expressions, including quadratics.
  • Solve quadratic equations by factorizing.
  • Use function machines and understand sequences and their nth terms.
  • Work with coordinate geometry and draw linear and quadratic graphs.
  • Understand gradient and intercepts in the context of straight-line graphs.
  • Solve simultaneous equations algebraically and graphically.

Statistics and Probability

  • Construct and interpret statistical diagrams: bar charts, pie charts, histograms, and scatter graphs.
  • Calculate averages: mean, median, mode, and range from data sets and frequency tables.
  • Understand probability scales, calculate probabilities, and understand experimental probability and expectation.
  • Use Venn diagrams and understand set notation.

Additional Resources

  • Revision cards and five-a-day practice questions are recommended.
  • Video tutorials and practice questions are available on the Corbettmaths website.

Exam Preparation

  • Recommended to take notes or watch in chunks due to lengthy content.
  • Encouraged to use the accompanying booklet and practice questions for reinforcement.

Conclusion

  • Video serves as a comprehensive review for foundational maths topics.
  • Aimed at increasing understanding and confidence in tackling GCSE Foundation Maths exams.