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The Regents Review Spring 2026

Mathematics DEPARTMENTAL NEWS Sparx Superstars At the time of writing, RPCC students have… • Answered 453,000 questions correctly • Spent 7,100 hours of personalised learning on Sparx Our current Leaderboard is as follows:

Year 11 Maths Revision Reminder • Every other Monday: Foundation topics with Mr Whatley (Room 34) • Every other Tuesday: Higher topics with Mr Faur (Room 36) or Mrs Khan (Room 35) • Exam practice with Mrs Morrissey and Mr Van Reenen (Room 30) Pi Day On Monday 16th March, Regents Park celebrated Pi Day. Pi is the ratio between the width of a circle (diameter) and the distance around the circle (circumference). Rounded to 3.14, it is an irrational number, which means that the decimal numbers go on forever without a repeating pattern (so it cannot be written as a single fraction). The idea to celebrate Pi day began in America, where the 14th March would be written as 3/14, the same as the first few digits of Pi. Competitions for the best homemade pie, reciting the most digits of Pi and other fun activities took place. Here are a few pi puns to celebrate: • Why did pi fail it’s driving test? Because it didn’t know how to stop. • Why should you not start a conversation with pi? Because it will go on and on forever… • Did you know that most ships use a standard rate of pay, but 3.14% of ships use pi-rates. • I never understood why the area of a circle is pi r squared, because pi are round!

Well done to those pupils!

Sparx & Year 11 GCSE Revision Just before February half term, you were informed that Sparx Maths now has a new, weekly GCSE exam-style revision. These are exam-style questions using the familiar Sparx format of providing videos to support and help if a pupil gets stuck. We would like to see more Year 11 pupils using this resource, as all the clever AI and algorithm wizardry within Sparx can then personalise any improvements for each pupil. To see more about this amazing resource, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=gaTwY-ia8U0

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