Year 13 Mathematics Curriculum Plan
Overview
Please be aware that a new specification for AS and A2 teaching will be delivered for first teaching in September 2008.
In the Sixth Form, students can take the standard Mathematics AS course, or they can elect to take Further Mathematics (ultimately worth two A levels). Approximately one third of Sixth Form students take Mathematics.
In 2007, three students have offers to read Mathematics at either Oxford or Warwick Universities, two of the most prestigious Mathematics departments in the world.
Students typically take modules according to the table below:
| Exam Session |
Single Maths | Further Maths |
| January of Y12 |
Core 1 |
Core 1 and 2. Statistics 1 |
| Summer of Y12 |
Core 2 Mechanics 1 |
Core 3 Statistics 2 |
| Januray of Y13 |
Statistics 1 |
Core 4 Further Pure 1 Mechanics 1 |
| Summer of Y13 |
Core 3 Core 4 |
FP 2 & FP3 Mechanics 2 and 3 |
Single Maths students are taught in a different class to the Further Mathematicians, each receiving 12 hours tuition per fortnight. The textbooks are published by Pearson Longman (authors Emanuel and Wood) for Core modules and by Heinemann (the Modular Mathematics series) for the Mechanics and Statistics modules. There is no coursework element to the assessment.
Online Resources
There is a huge variety of maths based websites available for teachers, students and parents. As a department, we tend to use the internet for research and for illustrating the richness and usefulness of mathematics. A very good place to start is here, a site which gives hundreds of links.
For Sixth Form Mathematics, the following sites will be of interest:
- Edexcel Examinations Board
- Careers using Mathematics
- MathsNet (needs Java- a really excellent site)
- PGMaths (a good source of notes- you have to pay for worksheets)
We sometimes find the following sites useful in our teaching of Mathematics:
