Leaving Certificate

Leaving Cert Maths 
Ordinary Level - Christmas Revision Course

  • Teacher
    Shannon Ahern
  • Exam
    Leaving Certificate
  • Level
    Ordinary Level
  • Learning Mode
    Live Online
  • Duration
    3 x 1 Hour 20 Mins
  • Dates
    2nd, 3rd, 4th January 2025
  • Time
    09:00 - 10:20
Meet Your Teacher

Shannon Ahern

Shannon has been teaching Maths to all levels and abilities in the heart of Dublin for the past 5 years, with 11 years of experience as a Maths tutor and 9 years of experience teaching in non-formal STEM education settings.

With a first-class Professional Master's in Education in Maths and Science, Shannon is dedicated to helping students discover their love for learning and mathematics, leading them to greater success.

Shannon's teaching philosophy revolves around the idea that Maths is a creative subject, more about asking questions than just finding answers. She engages students through discussions and real-world learning experiences, using virtual simulations and manipulatives. As a huge advocate of technology tools for supporting Maths teaching and learning, Shannon applies Maths to real-world scenarios to bring out students' innate understanding of the subject.

In addition to teaching students, Shannon runs an online teacher support network called 'Craic Matamatic,' where she provides educators with support to banish maths anxiety and bring the 'craic' back into the maths classroom. She is one of Ireland's leading voices in CPD courses on GenAI and maths education for teachers across Ireland.

What will be covered in this Course

This intensive 3-day course focuses on 3 core topics from OL Maths – Coordinate Geometry of the Line, Coordinate Geometry of the Circle, and Calculus – all of which are guaranteed topics and together comprise 25% of the Leaving Cert OL Maths paper.

Each day builds essential skills, from mastering formulas for midpoint, distance, and slope, to writing equations for lines and circles, to applying calculus for finding rates of change, maximum and minimum values, and tangents to curves. By highlighting connections and similarities between these topics, this course reduces study time of difficult topics and maximises understanding.

Live, interactive and exam-focused online course to help you achieve your best grade possible.

Recorded course: you will have access to the course recordings so you can replay them at your own pace, as often as you like.

High quality comprehensive notes.

What to expect:

Day 1 - Coordinate Geometry of the Line
  • Understanding the Cartesian plane -  plotting and reading points
  • Applying key formulae to maximise marks using the FIFA method (Midpoint, Distance, Slopes)
    Finding the equations of lines 
  • Writing equations of parallel and perpendicular lines
Day 2 - Coordinate Geometry of the Circle
  • Making connections between the coordinate geometry of the circle and the line
  • Understanding the circle's center and radius
  • Investigating if points are in, on, or outside the circle.
  • Reading and Writing the equation of a circle
  • Finding the equation of tangents to circles
Day 3 - Functions & Calculus
  • Understanding and using the notation of functions and calculus
  • Understanding differentiation as rate of change and slope
  • Differentiating basic polynomial functions
  • Using derivatives to find the maximum/minimum of a function
  • Finding the slope of a function at a specific point
  • Finding the equations of tangents to the curve.


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