KS5
We currently offer Mathematics A level and follow the AQA specification to provide continuity following on from GCSE.
Students will have 5 lessons a week and are expected to complete at least 5 hours of independent study a week.
In Year 12 students study the following topics:
- Proof and mathematical communication
- Indices and surds
- Polynominals
- Quadratic functions
- Using graphs
- Working with data
- Coordinate geometry
- Binominal expansion
- Logarithms
- Exponential models
- Triangle geometry
- Probability
- Differentiation
- Trig functions and equations
- Statistical hypothesis testing
- Applications of differentiation
- Integration
- Vectors
- Introduction to kinematics
- Motion with constant acceleration
- Objects in contact
- Forces in motion
- Transformation of graphs
In Year 13 students study the following topics:
- Proof and mathematical communication
- Functions
- Further transformations of graphs
- Sequences and series
- General binominal expansions
- Applications and vectors
- Projectiles
- Forces in context
- Rational functions and partial fractions
- Radian measure
- Calculus and expansion of trigonometry
- Further differentiation
- Moments
- Conditional Probability
- Further trigonometry
- Numerical methods
- Further integration techniques
- Further application of calculus
- The normal distributions
- Further hypothesis testing
- Numerical integration
- Differential equations
Year 12/13 Sequence of Learning: click to enlarge
Please click on the links below to see the AQA specification.
https://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/mathematics/specifications/AQA-7357-SP-2017.PDF
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/mathematics/as-and-a-level/mathematics-7357