There are lots of maths websites out
there designed to help you with your studies, but the problem is many
are hard to find, and many are just rubbish.
The aim of this section is to offer up some of the sites that my pupils
have found to pretty good over the last couple of years. I hope you
find them useful too.
If you have stumbled upon any good maths websites, then please let
me know here and I can add them
to the list.
Key Stage 3 = The three years leading
up to SATs (Years 7
- 9)
Key Stage 4 = The two years leading up
to GCSE (Years 10
- 11)
Key Stage 5 = The two years leading up
to A Levels (Years 12
- 13)
An
excellent set of high quality maths revision videos taking you
through all the big nasty topics - laws of indices, trigonometry,
surds - they are all there, and all explained slowly and clearly.
An excellent revision tool
Another
excellent collection of clearly presented videos which will
undoubtedly help you with your revision. GCSE and A Level are
covered and the videos are nicely broken down into topics.
If
you have a GCSE exam coming up and you want to go through a
practice paper, then Tim Buckton has provided a whole set of
video solutions to various GCSE papers, both Foundation and
Higher. Even if this is not the exam board you take, they may
still be useful for extra practice. My advice, start the video,
press pause, try to question, then press play again to check
your answer
What
a fantastic resource. This is a forum where you can submit any
really annoying maths questions, and a fellow student or one
of the brainy people from Cambridge University will help you
solve it. Of course, you can also answer other people's questions
yourself, and this really is an excellent way of understanding
a topic even more. There specific forums you might want are: Please
Explain - SATs and GCSE Onwards
and Upwards - A Level Nrich
Talk - Anything that isn't to do with maths
If
you are studying for your SATs or GCSEs, whatever level you
are working at, then this website is a must visit! It is jammed
packed full of help, resources and examples, and best of all
everything is very clearly arranged and leveled so you are sure
to find just the help you need. A truly excellent website!
They
say the old ones are the best, and this is still probably the
best one-stop place to call in for notes, examples, interactive
solutions and questions for you to have a go at yourself. Each
question has its level next to it, and you can even download
a big revision check-list to make sure you there will be no
nasty surprises in the exam. What more could you want in a website?
If
you are looking for some really good maths notes, worked examples,
and exercises to practise those all important maths skills,
then this place to go!
Some
good old past SATs questions, arranged both by levels and topics,
for you to try, and then you can check your answers at the bottom.
Practice makes perfect. You must click on the Key Stage 3 section
on the left to find them. Lots of good GCSE stuff in the GCSE
section as well. Alas, you must pay to access many of the A
Level materials, but the sixth form worksheets are free, come
complete with answers, and seem very good. An excellent site!
If
you are looking for some extra material to help you fine tune
those a level maths skills, then this website might just be
for you. Loads of questions and worked solutions. It is also
one of the few websites around that is particularly good for
Further Maths. Give it a go, it
just might help!
Lots
of topics in the Revision section, and in the Test Yourself
bit you can tackle the following topics - Function Machines,
Number Properties, Pythagoras, and Quadratics. The questions
are of an interactive nature, and are extremely well laid out.
There are also some good games, for when you have earned a break
from revision.
Quite
a few decent puzzles covering a wide range of topics. Many puzzles
rely on the use of "matching things". Good for a quick
revision of topics, and it shouldn’t give you too much
of a headache.
A
really nice set of GCSE notes and worked examples. Arm yourself
with a pen and paper, click through the presentations, and try
to solve the questions. You will then be taken step-by-step
through how to arrive at the answer. Very nice.
For
A Level Maths, this website is simply brilliant. Pick the topic
you need help on from the menu on the left, and then watch all
the resources appear. What I like best of all is the variety
of resources, from nice little leaflets covering all the main
facts, the video tutorials. Brilliant!
A
collection of some of the best and most original maths games
around. The website even keeps a record of your progress, and
the longer you play, the more you learn.
An
excellent website if you are look for a little bit of extra
practise and help on certain maths topics. The A Level section
in particular is outstanding.
I
know that doing a maths puzzle may not seem like the best way
to spend 20 minutes, but if you do one puzzle a day off this
site, it'll do you a lot more good than reading over your textbook
again and again. These puzzles teach you how to think and solve
problems, which are essential skills for success at maths. Each
puzzle comes complete with a worked answer. This site might
just help you enjoy your maths more, so I would give it a go.
If
you are serious about revision, then this is the website for
you. Not just really good notes on every topic you could ever
wish, but the pages are interactive, so you can fill in your
answer and it tells you whether you are right... or not. Very
good and completely free!
Really
good help on 10 of the biggest and mst important maths topics.
All the big names are there - fractions, percentages, algebra,
probability. Give it a go!
How
about something a bit different! This wonderful site has lots
of fancy applets that allow you to revise topics interactively.
You can grab shapes and graphs, move them around, and see what
happens. Very impressive and well worth a look!
This
nice website offers free specimen A level exam papers with written
and video solutions to help with your revision. Should you wish
to try some more papers, then you need to pay, but if this style
of revision works for you then it might be a worthwhile investment.
There is also a pretty good maths forum for A Level students
to ask questions and help each other.
A
lovely website which allows you to find notes and randomly generated
questions on pretty much every A Level module. And once you
have had a go at the question, you are taken through a step-by-step
solution. Practice makes perfect, and you certainly get as much
practice as you need with this
