Mathematics (Further)

Course summary

The math course is split into 3 strands: pure, mechanics and statistics. The pure strand deals with ideas such as trigonometric equations, graphs, exponentials and logarithms and calculus. In the mechanics strand pupils learn to model physical systems and explore topics like projectile motion, friction and moments. Pupils develop their understanding of how likelihoods can be examined using probability distributions and how data can be interrogated with statistical processes in the statistics component of the course. Here pupils learn about the normal distribution, discrete distributions, hypothesis testing and regression. The further mathematics course is split in the same way. The ideas from the mathematics A-level are developed further but additional topics such as complex numbers, polar coordinates, oblique impacts and probability generating functions are also explored.