Mathematics

Course summary

Mathematics explores areas of pure mathematics such as geometry, algebra and trigonometry. It also deepens your knowledge of statistics and probability, considering the application of these in real life, including learning how to use and analyse a real-world large data set. Mechanics is a new topic to most students; this is the study of how things move and interact with each other. As well as building on topics you have studied at school, there are new branches of mathematics to explore, including calculus - differentiation and integration, exponentials and logarithms and vectors. As well as these pure topics, the applied section including statistics and mechanics is also new to the majority of students, taught from real-life examples and interpreted back into the real world; you will develop your analytical and problem-solving skills.