Mathematics

Course summary

Students are exposed to some of the most powerful mathematical tools ever created. Calculus, the mathematical study of continuous change, which underpins everything from meteorology to the rise and fall of the stock markets; Statistics, in which pupils develop the skills required to interpret information and prepare themselves for a world of ‘big data’; Mechanics, in which pupils engage with the mathematics governing the laws of Newtonian physics and the motion of objects in our physical world. These topics, along with many more, will be covered with a rigour and level of detail that far outstrips what pupils have met at GCSE. Mathematics pupils at King’s can expect to be stretched, to be challenged, to work exceptionally hard and to leave at the end of Upper Sixth with a greater understanding of how the world around them works.