What we hold ourselves to
Our values
These are not aspirational slogans. They are the rules MathedUp already works by, written down so you can hold us to them.
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Integrity · honest information, original resources
We tell students and teachers the truth, and we make our own materials. Data is labelled with its limits and never dressed up. Every exam-style resource is a fresh, legally distinct creation: a re-worked parallel, never a copy of someone else's paper.
Litmus: never give false confidence.
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Rigour · every question is checked, not just written
Nothing reaches a student until an independent check has re-derived the answer and confirmed it is the only defensible one. We audit against real past papers and examiners' reports, blind-mark our own work, and fix the cause, not the symptom.
Confidence comes from getting it right, over and over.
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Evidence over opinion
What we teach, weight and flag is grounded in real data: a 246-paper exam corpus, examiners' reports, grade-banded results. Not hunches. And when the data is thin, we say so.
This is where MathedUp leads, so we lead with it.
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Craft · it should look like the real thing
Diagrams match the exam board's conventions, maths is always set properly (stacked fractions, never a slash), and a worksheet reads like a paper a student will actually sit. Small details are not optional; they are the product.
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Student-first · always free at the core
The core learning, practice, feedback and revision tools stay free, forever, and work instantly on a phone. No dark patterns, no manufactured urgency, no locking essentials behind a paywall. If a feature does not help a student learn, it does not ship, however clever.
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Teacher-respecting
We save teachers time and treat their judgement as central. Our resources inform and support a professional's decisions; they never gate them and never pretend to replace them.
The power of remix
See it in action
Values 1, 2 and 4 are easy to claim. Here is the proof. Each question below is modelled on a real past-paper question, then written fresh: same skill, same structure, same difficulty, different numbers and context. Every one is independently re-solved before it ships. That is how every student and every school gets exam-faithful practice that is genuinely original, and stays free forever.
The remixModelled on OCR 2023 June, Paper 4 (Higher), Q20: finding an angle in a triangle with the cosine rule.
In triangle $ABC$, $AB = 9.4$ cm, $AC = 11.8$ cm and $BC = 7.6$ cm. Work out the size of angle $BAC$. Give your answer to 1 decimal place.
Diagram not drawn accurately
M1
Method: substitute the three sides into the cosine rule: $\cos(\angle BAC)=\dfrac{9.4^2+11.8^2-7.6^2}{2\times 9.4\times 11.8}$
M1
Method: work this out to a value for the cosine: $\cos(\angle BAC)=\dfrac{169.84}{221.84}=0.7656$
A1
Answer: take the inverse cosine for the angle: $\angle BAC = 40.0^\circ$ (accept $40^\circ$)
3 marks in total (M1 M1 A1)
Also accepted: writing the rearranged cosine rule with $\cos(\angle BAC)$ as the subject in one line earns both method marks.
The remixModelled on AQA 2024 November, Paper 3 (Foundation), Q16: two successive percentage decreases.
A car is priced at £12 500. In a sale, the price is first reduced by 20%. The following week, the reduced price is lowered by a further 5%. Work out the price of the car after both reductions.
M1
Method: apply the first reduction: $12\,500 \times 0.80 = 10\,000$ (or find 20% of £12 500 and subtract)
M1
Method: apply the second reduction to the new price: $10\,000 \times 0.95 = 9\,500$
A1
Answer: price after both reductions is £9 500
3 marks in total (M1 M1 A1)
Also accepted: the full calculation in one line, $12\,500 \times 0.80 \times 0.95$, earns both method marks.
Common error: adding the percentages to a single 25% off ($12\,500 \times 0.75 = 9\,375$) earns no method marks.
The remixModelled on Edexcel 2019 June, Paper 1 (Higher, non-calculator), Q17: forming and solving a quadratic from a ratio.
A number $x$ is such that $x^2 : (5x + 7) = 1 : 2$. Work out the possible values of $x$.
M1
Method: cross-multiply the ratio $\dfrac{x^2}{5x+7}=\dfrac{1}{2}$ to get $2x^2 = 5x + 7$
A1
Answer: rearrange to a quadratic equal to zero: $2x^2 - 5x - 7 = 0$
M1
Method: a correct method to solve, e.g. factorising $(2x-7)(x+1)=0$
A1
Answer: both solutions: $x = \dfrac{7}{2}$ and $x = -1$
4 marks in total (M1 A1 M1 A1)
Also accepted: the quadratic formula or completing the square earns the solving method mark.
How teachers and students use them
- Independent revision: a full paper to work through at home, marked against a proper scheme.
- An unseen mock: a fresh paper students have not sat and cannot find the answers to online.
- After a mock: re-practise the exact question types a student dropped marks on, with new numbers.
- Homework and cover lessons: ready-made and mark-schemed, with no preparation needed.
- Differentiated practice: Foundation and Higher parallels of the same skills.
- Retrieval practice: regenerate the same paper with fresh numbers for spaced revision.
Print-ready, in different modes
A clean question paper and its full mark scheme, formatted like the real thing, to hand out or work through on screen.
Seeded for exact recall
Every paper is built from a seed, so the very same version can be reproduced on demand and set again.
Exam builder Coming soon
Assemble a bespoke paper from the exact topics you choose.
Integrity · a re-worked parallel, never a copy
Rigour · independently re-solved before it ships
Craft · board-faithful figures, stacked fractions
How we pay for it: teachers can choose premium tools, and we run optional live events and tutoring. Students never pay for the core, and never will. That is the deal, in writing.
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