Getting started

Welcome to the IGCSE Mathematics Website for teachers and their classes!

This website is designed to help with the teaching and learning of this Cambridge 0580 IGCSE course. We have a strong focus on the two key ingredients needed to do this. 

Activities - Rich activities that help students to experience, reason with and learn key mathematical ideas concepts.

Practice - Practice resources for solving problems using these concepts in the way students are expected to on this course.

The three of us, Jim, Richard and Oliver have been teaching mathematics for more than 60 years between us and have worked together teaching IGCSE and GCSE since 2006. In that time we have worked on designing and publishing resources, teacher workshops, conferences and curriculum reviews, always looking for new ways to help the teaching and learning of mathematics. We know the IGCSE course inside out and, like teachers everywhere, continue to face the daily challenges of engaging students with this subject and helping them to be confident and successful!

Our site is easy to navigate by IGCSE syllabus item with sections on  Number , Algebra and Graphs , Geometry , Mensuration , Trigonometry , Vectors and Transformations and  Statistics & Probability  as well as a section focussing on  Assessment and resources to get you started, planning and thinking in the  Getting started section.

In each of the headings you can find activities that can be used to help students engage, experience and practise the idea, and the skills, in that part of the syllabus. The range of students we cater for at IGCSE is broad and so the resources range from those that go right back to the very core of an idea, through to those that challenge the top end of an extended IGCSE class to think and explore the ides. For this reason, the site is full of Teaching Resources for Secondary Mathematics across the world and range of available syllabi for 11-16. At the same time, we have a clear focus on this site for IGCSE mathematics.

Our Philosophy

We have 60+ years of mathematics teaching experience between us and during that time we have run sessions at conferences and teacher workshops all over the world. We have written resources, articles and even a book on our favourite subject! We have learned that teaching is a broad and varied profession with 100s of variables. Teachers, students and classrooms differ, as do priorities! The one common element we find that drives us is the development of mathematical activities for our classroom that promote engagement, thinking and reasoning with mathematical concepts, followed by opportunities to practise. For the reasons mentioned, this might be used exactly as we present them, but are quite likely to be adapted by the teacher to their needs and context. At the moment, we have 100s of these available on the site. We are always developing more along with a signifiant question bank of exam-style questions, and problems, to help our students develop their thinking and understanding. Ultimately this helps prepare them for passing their exams. Read here about how we see The Mathematical Experience