Mathematics

Course summary

Did you know that: - • Codebreakers at Bletchley Park used inverse functions to decode enemy messages. • Sequences and series can be found in nature and can be used to model population growth/decay or the spread of a virus. • Archaeologists use differential equations to estimate the age of fossilized plants and animals. • The Newton-Raphson method was developed 400 years ago to describe the position of planets as they orbit the sun. Course Content Pure: includes differentiation; integration; transformation of graphs; coordinate geometry; sequences and series; trigonometry; exponentials and logarithms. Statistics: includes familiarity with a data set; probability; sampling; data presentation and interpretation; binomial distribution; normal distribution; hypothesis testing. Mechanics: includes Kinematics; forces and Newton’s laws; moments; and projectiles.