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Foundation GCSE Maths Topic Checklist
A practical overview for students and parents to record secure topics, identify revision priorities and plan the next steps.
How to use this checklist
Mark each topic as secure, developing or a priority. Choose only a few priorities at once, practise them without notes, then revisit them later through mixed exam questions.
Specifications vary between exam boards and individual papers do not assess every topic. Use this alongside the student’s school guidance and official exam-board materials.
Number
- Place value and ordering
- Four operations and estimation
- Negative numbers
- Factors, multiples and primes
- Fractions and mixed numbers
- Decimals and percentages
- Standard form
- Powers, roots and index laws
- Bounds and error intervals
Algebra
- Algebra notation and substitution
- Simplifying expressions
- Expanding and factorising
- Linear equations
- Inequalities
- Sequences
- Coordinates and straight-line graphs
- Quadratic and other graphs
- Rearranging simple formulae
Ratio, proportion and rates of change
- Simplifying and sharing ratios
- Direct proportion
- Recipes and scale
- Percentages and percentage change
- Best buys and unit pricing
- Speed, distance and time
- Density, mass and volume
- Compound measures
Geometry and measures
- Angle facts
- Properties of shapes
- Perimeter and area
- Circles
- Surface area and volume
- Transformations
- Constructions and loci
- Scale drawings and bearings
- Pythagoras' theorem
- Basic trigonometry
- Vectors
Probability
- Probability scale
- Combined events
- Sample spaces
- Frequency trees
- Tree diagrams
- Relative frequency
Statistics
- Averages and range
- Frequency tables
- Bar charts and pie charts
- Scatter graphs
- Time series
- Cumulative frequency
- Box plots
- Sampling and misleading graphs
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