DIFFERENTIATION
Topic Mastery PACK
Exam focused A Level Maths support to master differentiation from first principles, gradients, tangents, normals, optimisation, and rates of change.
This Topic Mastery Pack is designed to help students build a secure understanding of differentiation and confidently apply these skills in exam questions.
Why students struggle with differentiation in exams
Differentiation appears throughout A Level Maths and is often linked to graph sketching, optimisation and modelling questions. Many students:
• make avoidable algebra mistakes after differentiating correctly
• lose marks when finding stationary points and classifying them
• struggle to connect gradients to the context of a question
• find optimisation and rates of change questions difficult to start
• feel overwhelmed when several differentiation skills are combined in one problem
This pack breaks the topic into manageable steps and provides plenty of exam style practice, helping students build confidence and accuracy.
How this Topic Mastery Pack helps
• Builds a clear understanding of differentiation techniques and when to use them
• Develops confidence with the chain rule, product rule and quotient rule
• Clarifies tangents, normals and the meaning of gradients
• Improves accuracy when finding and classifying stationary points
• Focuses on method marks and clear exam style working
• Helps students tackle optimisation and rates of change questions with confidence
What’s included in this pack
This pack includes foundation videos explaining hypothesis testing from scratch (where needed), a focused masterclass on hypothesis testing, and a carefully selected booklet of exam-style questions.
Each question is supported by full worked solutions and mark scheme guidance, helping students understand how answers must be structured and written to gain full marks in exams.
All content is on-demand, allowing students to work at their own pace and revisit sections whenever needed.
Content covered in this pack
Year 12 content
• Gradients and derivatives
• Differentiation techniques
• Tangents and normals
• Stationary points
• Second derivatives
• Curve sketching
Year 13 content
• Exponentials and logarithms
• Trigonometric differentiation
• Chain, product and quotient rules
• Parametric and implicit differentiation
• Rates of change
• Optimisation and exam style problems
Access and pricing
Functions and Graphs Topic Mastery Packs:
✔ Differentiation Year 12
✔ On-demand content
✔ No subscription
✔ £15
✔ Differentiation Year 13
✔ On-demand content
✔ No subscription
✔ £15
✔ Differentiation Year 12 and Year 13
✔ On-demand content
✔ No subscription
✔ £25
FAQ
Is this a live session?
No. This is an on-demand Topic Mastery Pack.
Is this suitable if my child missed this topic at school?
Yes. Foundation explanations are included.
How long do students have access for?
Ongoing access to the materials.