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Course content

Mathematics should develop students’ abilities to manipulate numbers and solve a range of numerical problems. It should allow students to interpret charts and tables and to understand the concepts of numbers and shapes. Although mental arithmetic strategies are key skills in Mathematics, they will not be assessed in these tests. It is, however, assumed that they will play an important role in developing students’ skills in Mathematics and, as such, have been included in the Curriculum Framework. Because one paper permits the use of a calculator and the other does not it is important that students are able to solve problems in both situations.

Students will study:

Numbers
Problem solving
Data handling
Algebra
Graphs
Space Geometry
Trigonometry

Assessment/Examination

Mathematics will be assessed using two papers. Each paper will be taken in an hour-long session.
Questions will be set on the Number, Algebra and Space sections of the Curriculum Framework in both papers.

Both papers will contain short, structured questions totaling 50 marks. The questions will demand a variety of skills including recall of information and application of mathematical knowledge.
All the questions on both papers will be compulsory. As far as possible the questions will be arranged in difficulty through each paper.

The use of an electronic calculator (or tables) will be allowed for Paper 2 but not for Paper 1.

Alexandra Thomas
Head of Mathematics