In the first year, you will study pure mathematics, which, cover the key mathematical processes, techniques and skills you need to solve equations and work with functions and graphs. You will extend your knowledge of algebra and trigonometry as well as learning fresh concepts such as calculus. You will also see how the number system can be extended to allow negative numbers to have square roots and begin to explore matrices. You will also have the opportunity to use your mathematics to model the real world using statistics, mechanics or decision mathematics. In Statistics, you will learn how to analyse and summarise numerical data and how to use probability distributions to model real life events and their outcomes. In Mechanics, you will learn to model mathematically how the motion of an object responds to the forces applied to it. In Decision mathematics, you use a variety of algorithms (repeated processes) to enable you to reach decisions for a number of network problems.