R3 Show your working: method marks

Currently Not started · last touched 2026-10-21

DRILL every exam-skills session until cleared (parent, 14 Oct): perform the method on paper. 3-4 maths items she gets right (gradient from two points, % of an amount, estimated mean, minus-bracket equation). No answer counts until every line the scheme credits is written: gradient sum, substitution, equation, check. Mark the LINES not the number; right answer with no lines = 0, and she sees why. Then one fresh item unaided. Cleared when a timed maths section has every M-mark line written.

Every change

When	Change	Evidence	Session
2026-10-21	Not started → Not started	paper #10: Q8 no trace, Python rewrite instead, 0/1; Q10 carries not written but answer right 3/3. loss=technique on Q8	session 128
2026-10-14	Not started → Not started	Parent brief 14 Oct: working done in her head and not written. Record: 7 Oct paper Q8 line through two points, no working, 1/3; 8 Oct gradient working not written; 9 Oct y = 2x + 1 'in my head', no working; 9 Oct 15% off 80 answered bare; 2 Oct estimated mean answer typed bare. Homework #8 (14 Oct): Q3 gradient sum written only after a prompt (M1 earned by that line); Q4 written route invalid (18/4). Marks are lost to unwritten method lines, not to the maths.	standalone
2026-10-07	Not started → Not started	Test #7, 7 Oct: working typed on Q5, Q7, Q9 and Q3 (4 of 5 attempted multi-step items); none on Q8 (3 marks). Q7 show-that one line short, 1 mark. The paper's instructions asked for working on 2 marks or more.	session 83

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