The Pearson Edexcel A Level Maths booklet gives you formulae to look up and to prove, then leaves a third group to you. You look up the trapezium rule and the quotient rule. You prove the geometric series sum. You learn the quadratic formula and the sine rule by heart.
The Department for Education sets the recall list, so Pearson keeps those results out of the booklet. Printed does not mean skipped, because a question might ask you to prove the result. Tag each formula Locate, Derive or Recall, then revise by tag. The lookup below tags common formulae.
This guide sorts every formula into three tags, Locate, Derive and Recall. You get a lookup table, the exam rules and three checked examples. For extra practice with rearranging formulae, Royal Open College offers Functional Skills Maths Level 3 as CPD learning, not as an A Level.
The Edexcel A-Level Maths formula booklet is Pearson’s Mathematical Formulae and Statistical Tables, the official document you use in all three 9MA0 papers. The booklet prints selected formulae and four statistical tables. The booklet is not a full list of the formulae you need, because you learn the rest yourself.
Pearson issued the booklet in July 2017 as Issue 1, and the cover shows the Issue number. The same document covers AS, A Level and Further Maths, so you read the A Level Mathematics pages only. A year in a page title does not mean Pearson issued a new booklet.
Key facts
Source: Pearson booklet Issue 1, Pearson specification Issue 4 and Pearson Summer 2027 timetable (final).
Check your course code, your paper cover and your booklet sections before you revise. Pearson also publishes a booklet for International A Levels, and search results sometimes show the International one. These four quick checks confirm your copy matches your own course today.
Print a copy of Pearson’s Mathematical Formulae and Statistical Tables and use the booklet for every past paper. Pearson publishes the PDF free on its Edexcel A Level Mathematics pages. The exam copy stays blank, so mark only your printed practice copy and note page numbers as you work.
Sort every formula into one of three tags. Locate means the booklet prints the formula. Derive means the booklet prints the formula, but a question might ask you to prove the result. Recall means you learn the result, because Pearson does not print the formula.
Formula → Tag → Booklet page, if relevant
Your final tag should be one of three:
Locate — know where to find it
Derive — know how to prove or obtain it
Recall — know it from memory
Quick lookup for common formulae
Formula | Printed in booklet? | Tag |
Quadratic formula | No | Recall |
Sine rule and cosine rule | No | Recall |
Area of a triangle, ½ab sin C | No | Recall |
Double-angle formulae | No | Recall, or Derive from compound-angle formulae |
Product rule and chain rule | No | Recall |
Quotient rule | Yes | Locate |
Arithmetic and geometric series sums | Yes | Derive |
Trapezium rule | Yes | Locate |
Constant-acceleration (suvat) equations | Yes | Derive |
Weight, friction and F = ma | No | Recall |
Source: Pearson booklet Issue 1, DfE Appendix B and Pearson specification Appendix 1.
These formulae sit in the A Level Mathematics pages, so you need not memorise them. Learn where each one appears, because hunting for a page costs time. In summer 2023 a minority of candidates did not quote the small-angle approximation, though the booklet prints the correct version.
Pearson prints these results, but the subject content expects you to understand where they come from. A question might ask you to prove the sum of a geometric series, and quoting the printed result does not prove anything. Practise the proof as well as the formula.
Pearson does not print these formulae, and the Department for Education requires every exam board to expect them without help. A question gives one of these formulae only as the starting point for a proof or as a result to prove.
Watch the edge cases. Pearson prints the quotient rule but not the product rule or the chain rule. Pearson prints the derivatives of tan, sec, cot and cosec but not those of sin, cos, eᵏˣ or ln x. Learn the gaps first.
Pearson provides the booklet in every 9MA0 paper and allows a calculator in all three, within Pearson’s rules. Your paper cover lists both under what you must have. The booklet on your desk belongs to Pearson and stays unmarked. You leave the booklet in the exam room.
Plan your timed practice around the 2027 dates. All three papers run in the afternoon and last 2 hours each. UK centres start between 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm, so check your own start time with your exam centre. Pearson has published the final timetable.
Practise with a clean copy of the booklet on timed past-paper questions, and log why you lose each mark. This builds speed in finding formulae and shows which tag causes your errors. Follow the five steps below, then work through the three examples.
Write each formula before you substitute. Pearson’s mark scheme awards the method mark for a correct formula and an attempt to use the formula, even with small slips in the numbers. An unquoted formula puts the method mark at risk if any working goes wrong.
Most mistakes come from revision sheets which disagree with Pearson’s own documents. Check each claim below against the booklet and specification before you trust a source. These errors appear on pages in search results, so correct them early in your revision.
A: The booklet carries an Issue number and date on the cover. The 2017 booklet is Issue 1, July 2017. Check the cover of your copy, and download the booklet again each September to see whether Pearson has issued a new version.
A: Pearson also runs International A Levels, which share the booklet title Mathematical Formulae and Statistical Tables. The International booklet uses unit labels such as P1, M1 and S1, and paper covers read Yellow or Blue. Your 9MA0 paper cover reads Green.
A: No. The tables sit beside your calculator, and the course expects you to use the distribution functions for binomial and Normal probabilities. Quote table values in full, and match the accuracy of the table if you use a calculator value instead.
A: Pearson sets no fixed number. Appendix 1 of the specification lists the results you recall, and the Department for Education lists the same results in Appendix B. The list covers algebra, trigonometry, calculus, vectors, mechanics and statistics, so learn the list and not the whole booklet
A: Only when a question asks. The subject content expects proofs such as differentiation from first principles, the constant-acceleration equations and the compound-angle formulae. Copying a printed result does not prove the result, so practise each proof as well as the formula.
A: In summer 2023 on Paper 1, some candidates wrote an incorrect quadratic formula, and a minority did not quote the small-angle approximation, though the booklet prints the correct version. Laws of logarithms also caused errors. Check these three first when you review your lost marks.
A: No. Pearson lists the quadratic formula among the results you recall, so the booklet does not print the formula. Learn the formula and quote the formula first, even when your calculator solves the equation, because the mark scheme rewards a quoted formula.
A: Yes. The A Level Mathematics pages print the five constant-acceleration equations. You still choose the equation, so check acceleration is constant and list the known values before you substitute. A question might also ask you to derive the equations from the definition of acceleration.
A: No. Pearson prints one document for AS, A Level and Further Maths, with a section for each qualification. Read the A Level Mathematics pages for 9MA0 and the AS pages for 8MA0. Skip the Further Maths pages, because those formulae do not belong to your papers.
A: Pearson publishes the booklet free as a PDF on its Edexcel A Level Mathematics pages. Print a clean copy and use the copy for timed past papers. Your exam copy stays blank and stays in the room, so mark only your printed practice copy.
A: No, for 9MA0. The A Level Maths tables are binomial cumulative, normal percentage points, correlation critical values and random numbers. Poisson tables belong to Further Maths, so skip the Poisson pages in the shared booklet and read only the A Level Mathematics pages.
Royal Open College offers Functional Skills Maths Level 3 as CPD learning. The lessons include substitution into given formulae and algebraic techniques, skills you use when you rearrange and substitute into booklet formulae. You finish with an online assessment and a CPD certificate.
This course is not an A Level, not a regulated qualification and not preparation for Pearson 9MA0 papers. Your exam centre and Pearson set exam requirements. Check your own course content with your teacher before you add extra study. A CPD certificate records learning, not a grade.
If you return to maths after a break, start with the basics. Royal Open College also offers Functional Skills Maths Level 2 as CPD learning, which rebuilds number and algebra confidence. In England, 27.1 percent of provisional GCSE maths entries in summer 2026 came from year 12 or above.
Print your booklet today and tag your first ten formulae. Log each lost mark by cause in your next timed paper, and review the log every week. Add extra study, including Royal Open College learning, only after you check your course content with your teacher.
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