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The final week of Unit 3: two days of mixed, real-life ratio and proportion problems, a self-directed review, extra timed practice, and the Unit 3 assessment. By the end of this week you should feel genuinely confident applying ratio and proportion to real situations, not just isolated exercises.

This week puts ratio to work in real-world contexts: scaling recipes with direct proportion, working out which supermarket deal is actually better value, reading scale drawings and maps, and converting between units of measurement — some of the most genuinely useful skills in the whole course.

Unit 3 begins: Ratio & Proportion. This week covers what ratio actually means, how to simplify it, share an amount using one, and solve problems when you're only given part of the picture — genuinely practical maths that shows up everywhere from recipes to exchange rates.

Welcome to a full two-year, self-paced GCSE Maths course for home-educated students — covering the whole AQA and Edexcel syllabus from basic arithmetic to Higher tier. Here's how the weekly structure works, what you'll need, how assessments run, and why it's completely okay to take your time.

The final week of Unit 2: algebraic fractions with multiplication and division, then two days pulling everything together — mixed problem solving and forming equations from real-life situations, before a self-directed review and the Unit 2 assessment.

Week 6 takes last week's multiplying skills and applies them to brackets — expanding by multiplying everything inside a bracket, then the reverse process, factorising. We finish by forming algebraic expressions from written descriptions, putting the whole week's skills to use.

Unit 2 begins: Algebra. This week covers the notation itself, simplifying expressions by collecting like terms, substitution, and multiplying/dividing terms — the same rules of arithmetic you already know, just written in a more general way. Same tiered format, warm-ups that build on what you already know.

The last week of Unit 1: rounding, estimation, and systematic listing, followed by a self-directed mixed review and the Unit 1 assessment. By the end of this week you should feel genuinely solid on everything from arithmetic to BIDMAS — the foundation the rest of the course builds on.

Week 3 moves into powers and roots — squares, cubes, and their opposites — before tying it all together with the order of operations (BIDMAS) and a first look at index laws. Same tiered format as before, with warm-ups that build on what you already know from the last two weeks.