May 2025
Our curriculum is designed around the use of MathsWatch. All homework is set on the platform to reduce teacher workload and some assessments are set on there too. The ability to allow students to practices past paper questions with instant feedback coupled with the ability to start a written dialogue with their teacher on specific questions directly on the platform allows teachers to use their time more efficiently when responding to student’s need for help. Being a digital platform, those papers also don’t need to be printed out so also has a positive environmental impact. Video lessons with interactive questions and worksheets also allow non-specialists to deliver cover lessons more effectively (especially if students have access to the site during the lesson too so they can work on those interactive questions as their main activity). Even as a specialist teacher, the ability to quickly find further questions to do as examples in class that are of exam quality is extremely useful. The value that we receive for our subscription is immeasurable. The low price when compared to similar products is in no way an indication of inferior quality and is instead an example of outstanding value for money. We use MathsWatch for all our GCSE provision for 16-19 year olds. The adult team use it for their GCSE and Functional Skills classes and the AS level cohort have access to all the AS content too. We will be adding the KS3 content to our subscription moving forwards to aid our pre-GCSE programmes doing Level 1 and Entry Level provision. I couldn’t recommend MathsWatch to all educational institutions highly enough.
Lewis Burridge found MathsWatch:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Homework assignments are wholly set using MathsWatch. This eliminates the need for teacher marking and allows staff time to focus on providing feedback on areas for improvement. As we near the final GCSE exams, the student demands for past papers increase dramatically. From experience, however, many students don’t hand the papers back in for marking and so have no idea what areas they should focus on. MathsWatch allows shadow versions of real past papers to be set. The instant feedback a student gets when they know whether they’ve got a question correct or not significantly improves their revision and none of that marking needs to be done by a teacher.”
- Significantly improves attainment“We have conducted detailed analysis the correlation between MathsWatch usage of our students and the grades students attain in exams. There is very strong positive correlation showing that the more work students do on MathsWatch (especially practice questions) the higher the grade the student achieved in the exam.”
- Significantly provides school data“The quality team is very interested in student usage and outcomes. Analysis is done yearly to show the breakdown of usage and exam outcome against various criteria. Gender, Free School Meals and EHCP status are typical. It often shows that MathsWatch is helping to close the gap between disadvantaged students and their peers.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Analysis is done yearly to see the impact of MathsWatch usage on exam outcome. This is further broken down to see the impact on gender gaps but especially the disparity between students with an EHCP and their peers. We often find that average MathsWatch usage amongst EHCP students is higher than their peers. Coupled with strong correlation between MathsWatch usage and exam outcome we can see the attainment gap shrinking.”
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