GCSE formulae

With the introduction of the new 9-1 GCSE, the government decided that a formulae sheet will no longer appear in the front of the exam booklet, and that students will need to know all the formulae they would have previously been provided with.

This means that variations on this:

have been replaced with this:

and that students are expected to know all of these. The one bonus to this is that they are still not expected to know the formulae for volume and surface area of spheres (I'm not 100% sure why they're so special!)

Now, I don't know about you, but that need to know formulae sheet looks awfully busy to me - it's not the prettiest thing to look at, but it sure is functional. For in an exercise book. But for referencing to a class, and being something they're exposed to all the time - not so much.
Something I knew I wanted to do in my classroom since the start of the year was a formulae display board, and I finally got round to doing it - now I can reference the display when I'm talking about specific formulae (very useful these past few weeks with my lovely year 10's doing their area and volume topic), and with the constant exposure, they'll hopefully have at least a few of the formulae stuck in their head for the foreseeable future!

Honestly, I'm really impressed with myself and this display! We didn't have a lot of choices for backing paper in the department, so I went for a deep purple to stand out, and bought the border and lettering from here. I got my hands on some black card and chalkboard pens, and got to work!

Hopefully, I'll be able to get some more good and helpful displays up in the future, but for now I'm really happy with this one!