MATHS STUDY SUPPORT

Welcome to Wilson’s School, everyone here in the maths department hopes that you are settling in well and enjoying your lessons!

Try this Su Doku from The Times to get your brain warmed up for some maths!

This puzzle follows the rules of a normal sudoku as every row, column and 3x3 box has to have the digits 1 to 9 in it. In addition the numbers in each dotted area must add up to the total given, with no digits repeated within a dotted area. Good luck!

For a handy one page guide to what you will be studying this year, see the table below (click the image to enlarge).

YEAR 7 SCHEME OF WORK 2009-2010 OVERVIEW

Welcome to the year 8 section of the Maths Department website. We hope that you’re enjoying your maths lessons!

Students will have an end of key stage exam at the end of year 8 and will be awarded a level for their work at Key Stage 3.

YEAR 8 SCHEME OF WORK 2009-2010 OVERVIEW

Welcome to GCSE maths! Here you can find lots of information about your course and practice questions on key GCSE topics.

Your exam board is Edexcel.

Your GCSE course is assessed by two exams.

Below are a series of worksheets designed to help you revise key A/A* grade topics. Each one has practice questions on a key technique and some exam style questions for you to try. Solutions are given at the bottom of the worksheet so fold this away out of sight until you have completed your attempt at the questions!

AAstar Completing the square
AAstar Simultaneous Equations
AAstar Surds
AAstar Transformations of curves
AAstar Dimension theory
AAstar Factorising Quadratics and Using the formula
AAstar Probability
AAstar Circles
AAstar Perpendicular Lines
AAstar Algebraic Fractions
AAstar Segments and Arcs
AAstar Cones Pyramids and Spheres
AAstar Vectors
AAstar Histograms
AAstar Proportionality
AAstar Indices

Answers to “60 Questions you need to know the answer to”:
GCSE answers

For an overview of what you will be studying each term, see the tables below. Click on the table to enlarge.

YEAR 9 SCHEME OF WORK OVERVIEW 2009-2010 (standard sets)



YEAR 10 SCHEME OF WORK OVERVIEW 2009-2010 (standard sets)



YEAR 11 (sets 2 and 3) SCHEME OF WORK OVERVIEW 2009-2010



YEAR 11 (set 1) SCHEME OF WORK OVERVIEW 2009-2010

Watch this space for great revision materials.

Algebra Induction Booklet

The algebra induction booklet includes examples and exercises on: expanding brackets, factorising expressions, quadratic equations, changing the subject of the formula, indices and surds. All these concepts should be familiar to you from your GCSE course but it is vital for you to be confident with them so you can make the best possible start to the AS course. You will be tested on this work before you begin the C1 module.

Unit C1

Core Mathematics 1 extends student’s learning in familiar GCSE topics such as quadratics, indices and straight line graphs. Students will also be introduced to new topics, the key new material being differentiation. This is a non calculator module.
Core 1 Graphs
Core 1 Coordinate Geometry
Core 1 Indices and Surds
Core 1 Polynomials
Core 1 Differentiation

Unit C2

Core Mathematics 2 builds on students’ GCSE trigonometry and algebra knowledge as well as introducing the new topics: sequences, series, integration and logarithms.

Core 2 Exponentials and Logarithms
Core 2 Integration
Core 2 Polynomials
Core 2 Sequences and Series
Core 2 Trigonometry

Unit S1

Probability and Statistics 1. Students will already be familiar, from GCSE, with ways of displaying and interpreting data such as scatter diagrams and box plots. In this module students will build on this knowledge with a more formal approach to statistics and probability, including work on discrete random variables and bivariate data.

S1 Key Points

Correlation and Regression
Measures of Location and Spread
Probability Distributions
Probability, Permutations and Combinations

Watch this space for great revision materials for:

Unit C3 (A2)

Core Mathematics 3 extends the core work completed in the AS with further work on algebra, functions, trigonometry, the exponential function, differentiation, integration and numerical methods.

Unit C4 (A2)

Core Mathematics 4 extends the core work completed in Core Mathematics 3, notably introducing differential equations. A new topic, vectors, is also included in this module.

Unit M1 (AS)

Mechanics 1 is about using mathematical models of physical situations to investigate the forces causing an object to move or remain stationary as well as studying the motion of objects that are thrown or dropped.
To achieve this, students study force as a vector, kinematics, equilibrium of a particle, Newton’s laws of motion and linear momentum.

Watch this space for great revision materials for:

Unit FP1 (AS)

Further Pure Mathematics 1 introduces some key topics in pure mathematics, with a more rigorous proof based approach than the Core modules. In particular, students study matrices, complex numbers, series and proof.

Unit D1 (AS)

Decision Mathematics is the use of discrete maths to solve practical problems such as how to deliver all the mail to every street in an village in the shortest time. The aim is to derive algorithms (sets of instructions) that find efficient solutions. The problems investigated include ordering numbers, various problems involving networks and linear programming.

S2 (A2)

Probability and Statistics 2 covers some essential topics for application in many other subjects such as biology and economics. This includes continuous random variables, the normal distribution, the Poisson distribution, sampling and hypothesis testing.

Watch this space for great revision materials for:

Unit FP2 (A2)

Further Pure Mathematics 2
Rational functions and graphs, polar coordinates, hyperbolic functions, calculus, numerical methods.

Unit FP3 (A2)

Further Pure Mathematics 3
Differential equations, vectors, complex numbers, groups.

Unit M2 (A2)

Mechanics 2
Centre of mass, equilibrium of a rigid body, motion of a projectile, uniform motion in a circle, coefficient of restitution and impulse, energy, work and power.

Unit M3 (A2)

Mechanics 3
Equilibrium of rigid bodies in contact, elastic strings and springs, impulse and momentum in two dimensions, motion in a vertical circle, linear motion under a variable force and simple harmonic motion.

Unit S3 (A2)

Probability and Statistics 3
Linear combinations of random variables, confidence intervals and the t distribution, difference of population means and proportions and the Chi squared tests.

Try out some of the links below for lots of interesting maths stuff and help with your studies! Please let Miss Chase know about any links that you think should be added.

www.subtangent.com
Some great maths games on this website including Countdown and Mathionaire

www.realmaths.com
A website packed full of great links

www.mymaths.co.uk
The games section of this website has some fun things for you to try!

www.simonsingh.net
This is the home page of the mathematical author and journalist Simon Singh. It is a great source of information on interesting mathematical topics such as Ciphers and Fermat’s Last Theorem.

http://www.nrich.maths.org
This is a great website for interesting and challenging maths questions!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/11_16/site/maths.shtml
This link will take you straight to a range of options from the BBC which are particular useful for revision.


AS/A2 links

www.mathsnet.net
A website with loads of practice questions, explanations and some very good Java applets to help with most A level modules. (This isn’t designed for our exam board so some topics come up under different modules.)

www.ocr.org.uk
You can get official information from the exam board here, like past papers and formulae booklets.

http://plus.maths.org/
Online magazine about careers in maths