What are lessons like in this subject?
Lessons start with retrieval practice: previous topics taught are consolidated using quizzes, skills tests, or exam questions. Exemplar models are worked through in the lesson to introduce new topics. Time is allocated to practising skills and application in problem solving. Students are encouraged to engage in discussion to deepen their knowledge. Mini whiteboards, card matching activities, interactive resources and web sites are used in lessons. Students become proficient in the use of a graphical calculator. Activities such as sketching graphs, solving simultaneous equations, carrying out statistical calculations and much more are performed in lessons on their calculator. Maths enrichment is on offer throughout the year. Examples include university trips to maths departments to experience maths lectures and student life; the opportunity to participate in the senior maths challenge and team maths challenge annually; and guest lecturers and speakers are invited into college to give inspiring maths talks.
What will I study?
The course will include:
- Proof.
- Algebra and functions.
- Coordinate geometry.
- Sequences and series.
- Trigonometry.
- Exponentials and logarithms.
- Calculus.
- Numerical methods.
- Statistics (including data, probability, binomial and normal distributions, and hypothesis testing).
- Mechanics (including vectors, kinematics, Newton’s laws, and moments).
A-Level Maths is a course that keeps you thinking. Due to how information dense math as a topic for an A Level, it teaches you a new way of learning. Learning is a skill not only useful for education but life as a whole so I'd highly recommend this topic.
Oscar Jusinski, Appleton Academy
Mathematics
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