In Mathematics we have a universal language, valid, useful, intelligible everywhere in place and time. Mathematics is the oldest of the sciences and those who choose to study it as an A-level subject like its challenge, its clarity and its ability as a subject to reduce many different, apparently complex problems into the mathematical formulations of similar form from which analytical solutions can be obtained. Mathematics is all about logical analysis, deduction and calculation and its great importance lies in the fact that it can take the patterns it finds and use them to explain and control natural events and situations. At Hurtwood House, Mathematics is a large, lively and outstandingly successful department. The teaching staff here ensure that not only do their students acquire the most important skill in the subject – that is, the ability to solve problems quickly, accurately and efficiently – but they also teach them why Mathematics is such a prestigious subject and the enormous range of its practical applications. At Hurtwood you will also learn that Maths is a structure of ideas which has a fascination and beauty of its own, and that it is also a means of understanding phenomena in the outside world, both in the physical sciences and in all areas of social, industrial, biological and economic activity.