Mathematics

Course summary

Rather than study A-level Mathematics in two years students will study the full course in year one. The A level course is described above. In the second year of the A-level studies students will study A-level Further Mathematics. This course broadens their understanding of mathematics and introduces new, often challenging, but always beautiful, mathematical concepts. Very much like the Mathematics A-level, students will study a combination of Core Pure and Applied Mathematics in the ratio 2:1. Core Pure Mathematics. Students will meet the complex plane, matrices, polar coordinates, hyperbolic functions and proof. For many students these are areas of mathematics that will have been completely outside their previous mathematical experience. It is that discovery of a whole landscape of new mathematics that makes this course so attractive. Applied Mathematics: Further Mechanics and Decision Mathematics. Further Mechanics includes the study of forces, acceleration and equilibrium, tension within springs, particle collisions, work and power, momentum and kinetic and potential energy. In Decision mathematics students will learn how to solve problems involving algorithms, graph theory, networks, systems, planning and resource allocation, the maximisation of profit and the minimisation of costs.