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Mathematics
STUDY LEVEL CONTACT DETAILS
A level Head of Department
Michael Griffiths, [email protected]
A level Mathematics is essential for a number of future destinations and opens
up a wide range of career paths including engineering, economics, medicine,
technology or science. The course will challenge your problem solving abilities and
will develop your skills to think logically.
What will I study? Co-curricular activities? Where might it lead?
The Mathematics A level has two-
thirds of content looking at pure
mathematics, one-sixth looking at
mechanics and one-sixth looking
at statistics. Students will sit three
papers at the end of their second
year, each lasting for two hours. As part of our commitment
to ensuring students enjoy
the challenges that studying
mathematics brings, we arrange a
number of activities throughout the
year to enrich your experience. Studying Mathematics is challenging,
rewarding and stimulating and helps
to develop the problem solving and
reasoning skills that are so highly
valued by employers.
Please be assured, the step up from
GCSE to A level is not as steep
as some people would have you
believe, and we within the maths
department will make sure you have
the support and guidance necessary
to be successful with this transition.
These include attending problem-
solving days at local universities,
entering a range of individual and
team challenges both locally and
nationally and attending residential
sessions at local universities with
a view to undergraduate study of
Mathematics.
Students will also have the
opportunity to enter and be
supported with preparing for a
number of examinations that are
required for university entry, such as
STEP, MAT, BMAT or AEA.
There is an increasing demand (and
pay) from universities and employers
with maths skills and there are
an increasing number of careers
using mathematics explicitly. These
include: logistics (shipping Amazon
orders efficiently), marketing,
science, engineering, technology,
financial services, game design
and statistics (including analysing
‘Big Data’).
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