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Exam key terms

Typing practice for GCSE Mathematics and Numeracy

The words, not the symbols: interquartile range, perpendicular bisector, simultaneous equations, and the command words that decide what a question is actually asking.

Terms
353
Lessons
13
Spec code
3320QD

Terminology aligned to the WJEC GCSE Mathematics and Numeracy (Double Award) specification, first teaching 2025.

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A sample of what pupils type

One term from each topic in the pack, so you can judge the level before signing up. These are the real strings, straight out of the lessons.

  • product of their prime factors
  • metric to imperial equivalence
  • direct and inverse proportion
  • extraction of common factors
  • more complex linear equations
  • regions given by inequalities
  • faces, edges and vertices
  • perpendicular line bisector
  • angles of elevation and depression
  • statistical problem solving process
  • expected number of successes
  • give your answer
  • prime factor decomposition
  • length, mass and capacity
  • simple and compound interest
  • difference of two squares
  • simultaneous linear equations
  • implicitly in terms of x

What the pack covers

Topics follow the specification's own content areas, so a teacher can set the one the class is on this week.

Number

  • 1.1 Place value, indices and surds
  • 1.2 Measure, bounds and compound units
  • 1.3 Financial and personal numeracy

Algebra

  • 2.1 Algebraic conventions and manipulation of expressions and formulae
  • 2.2 Equations, inequalities and sequences
  • 2.3 Coordinates, graphs and real-life graphs

Geometry and measures

  • 3.1 Geometric terms and properties
  • 3.2 Mathematical instruments, maps and scale
  • 3.3 Trigonometry, circles and transformations

Statistics and probability

  • 4.1 Collecting, representing and analysing data
  • 4.2 Probability

Command words

  • 5.1 Command words
  • 5.2 Explaining terms in your own words

How a lesson works

Each lesson has five parts drawn from its term pool, so nobody memorises one screen of text. The pass mark is 92 per cent accuracy, higher than the touch-typing course, because a misspelled technical term is a wrong answer rather than a slow one. Lessons do not lock, so pupils revise whatever they are covering in class.

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Where the terminology comes from

Each pack is curated from the published specification and the Guidance for Teaching for that qualification. We list individual subject terms only, and every definition and example sentence is written from scratch.

  • WJEC GCSE Mathematics and Numeracy (Double Award) Specification (Version 5 - September 2025)
  • WJEC GCSE Mathematics and Numeracy (Double Award) Guidance for Teaching (Version 3 - April 2026)

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