Mathematics

Course summary

In the first year of A-Level Mathematics, students will cover two different modules, ‘pure mathematics’ and ‘statistics and mechanics’. Pure Mathematics will introduce proof, algebra and functions, graphs and transformations, coordinate geometry, binomial expansion, trigonometry, exponential and logarithms, differentiation, integration and vectors. Statistics and mechanics will introduce applied mathematics and looking at the following topics data presentation and interpretation, interpolation, probability, binomial distribution, hypothesis testing, kinematics and forces. In the second year of A Level Mathematics students will study ‘Pure Mathematics 2’ and ‘Statistics and Mechanics 2’. Pure Mathematics 2 consists of some familiar topics from Pure 1 but deepening and extending the topics further and it also introduces new topics such as numerical methods, arithmetic & geometric, series and parametric equations. Statistics and Mechanics 2 again will have familiar topics from the first year and introduce the following, regression and correlation, conditional probability, normal distribution, moments, friction and projectiles.