Customising Your Route Maps
Route Maps have been designed to offer a suggested route through the content of the specification. The suggested approach may not match your plans for teaching, but the maps are designed to allow you to add or amend content to suit your teaching.
Amending the calendars
The calendar view is displayed below. The teaching topics, holidays and exam periods are all represented by “tiles” which can be moved to suit your requirements. This can be done by dragging and dropping with the mouse. We’ve tried to use “standard” school holidays, but there are variations between local authorities and you may want to set these dates first.
The teaching topics are designed to represent a sensible amount of time to cover the content in detail, but you can alter the width of each box to match how long you intend to spend on each topic. Once you’ve set up the Route Map for your teaching, running it as a slideshow allows access to the interactivity, simply click on a topic to be taken to the relevant topic pages.
Amending the topic sheets
Topic sheets have all the “candidates should be able to” statements from the specification references associated to the topic. You can amend these to reflect your own teaching order. Space is provided for you to add your own notes, or links to your own resources, so that you can use the Route Maps as the basis for a scheme of work.
When running the PowerPoint as a slideshow, the heading of each topic sheet acts as a hyperlink, taking you to the relevant page of All About Maths, and the resources held within it.
Starting GCSE with Year 9?
We acknowledge that an increasing number of schools choose to start the GCSE course early. Whilst these Route Maps are designed to cover the content in two years, there a few simple steps to expand this into a three year teaching course:
1)Open the PowerPoint file, and the viewshould showthumbnail versions of all the slides on the left handside of the screen
2)Right click with the mouse between the two calendar slides and you should get the following options:
Choose “new slide”
3)A blank calendar slide willbe created. You can ‘drag and drop’ this, so that it is above the Year 10 calendar,in order to act as a Year 9 calendar.
4)Finally, you can select any of the topic tiles from the Year 10 calendar and “cut and paste” them into your new Year 9 calendar. The links built into these tiles will not be affected by this move, so the functionality of the site remains the same. You can also copy any of the exam or holiday tiles and paste these onto your blank template.
A handy tip to move multiple tiles at once is to hold the Ctrl key down whilst selecting the ones you want to move with the mouse.