Education A to Z

Education and Curriculum Terms: A Guide for Students and Teachers

Please note: This page explains a word or a process in education. It is general information about the system, the law and the guidance in England — not advice about your child, your school or your exam. If a decision is going against you, get advice from one of the free services we link to before you agree to anything or miss a deadline. If you are revising, check your own exam board's specification: boards word things differently and yours is the one that marks you.

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27 terms filed under T, showing 21–27 (page 3 of 3).

T

Transition

Moving between settings or key stages. For many children with SEND it is the hardest thing in the school year.

Transition to secondary school

Moving from primary to secondary. The single biggest change in most children's school life.

Translation

Rendering sentences between languages, both ways, under exam conditions.

Transport for post-16 students

Getting to college after 16. A weaker duty than for school-age children.

Trigonometry

The relationships between angles and sides in triangles. SOHCAHTOA, and what to do when there is no right angle.

Twice exceptional

A child who is both highly able and has SEND. The two mask each other.

Types of number

Integers, primes, factors, multiples, squares, cubes and roots.

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