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AS and A Level Further Mathematics A - H235, H245 Teaching from 2017

Further Mathematics A - H235, H245 (from 2017)

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Specification at a glance

  • A Level

  • AS Level

Assessment overview

PaperMarksDurationWeightinginsert text

Mandatory

Pure core 1 (Y540)

751 hour 30 mins25%Assesses content from pure core and all of the overarching themes

Pure core 2 (Y541)

751 hour 30 mins25%Assesses content from pure core and all of the overarching themes

Optional (choose any two)

Statistics (Y542)

751 hour 30 mins25%Assesses content from statistics and all of the overarching themes

Mechanics (Y543)

751 hour 30 mins25%Assesses content from mechanics and all of the overarching themes

Discrete mathematics (Y544)

751 hour 30 mins25%Assesses content from discrete mathematics and all of the overarching themes

Additional pure mathematics (Y545)

751 hour 30 mins25%Assesses content from additional pure mathematics and all of the overarching themes

Students must take both mandatory pure core papers and any two optional papers to be awarded the A Level.

Students may take more than two optional papers to increase the breadth of their course. The combination of papers that results in the best grade will be used.

Content overview

These overarching themes should be applied, across the whole of the detailed content in the specification:

  1. Mathematical argument, language and proof
  2. Mathematical problem solving
  3. Mathematical modelling.

Mandatory papers

Pure mathematics

  • Proof
  • Complex numbers
  • Matrices
  • Further vectors
  • Further algebra
  • Series
  • Hyperbolic functions
  • Further calculus
  • Polar coordinates
  • Differential equations

Optional papers (choose two or more)

Statistics

  • Probability
  • Discrete random variables
  • Continuous random variables
  • Linear combinations of random variables
  • Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals
  • Chi-squared tests
  • Non-parametric tests
  • Correlation
  • Linear regression

Mechanics

  • Dimensional analysis
  • Work, energy and power
  • Impulse and momentum
  • Centre of mass
  • Motion in a circle
  • Further dynamics and kinematics

Discrete mathematics

  • Mathematical preliminaries
  • Graphs and networks
  • Algorithms
  • Network algorithms
  • Decision making in project management
  • Graphical linear programming
  • The simplex algorithm
  • Game theory

Additional pure mathematics

  • Sequences and series
  • Number theory
  • Groups
  • Further vectors
  • Surfaces and partial differentiation
  • Further calculus
Download A Level specification

Assessment overview

PaperMarksDurationWeightinginsert text

Mandatory

Pure core 1 (Y531)

751 hour 15 mins33⅓%Assesses content from pure core and all of the overarching themes

Optional (choose any two)

Statistics (Y532)

601 hour 15 mins33⅓%Assesses content from statistics and all of the overarching themes

Mechanics (Y533)

601 hour 15 mins33⅓%Assesses content from mechanics and all of the overarching themes

Discrete mathematics (Y534)

601 hour 15 mins33⅓%Assesses content from discrete mathematics and all of the overarching themes

Additional pure mathematics (Y535)

601 hour 15 mins33⅓%Assesses content from additional pure mathematics and all of the overarching themes

Students must take the mandatory pure core paper and any two optional papers to be awarded the AS Level.

Students may take more than two optional papers to increase the breadth of their course. The combination of papers that results in the best grade will be used.

Content overview

These overarching themes are applied across the content:

  1. Mathematical argument, language and proof
  2. Mathematical problem solving
  3. Mathematical modelling.

Mandatory paper

  • Proof
  • Complex numbers
  • Matrices
  • Further vectors
  • Further algebra

Optional papers (choose two or more)

Statistics

  • Probability
  • Discrete random variables
  • Chi-squared tests
  • Correlation
  • Linear regression

Mechanics

  • Dimensional analysis
  • Work, energy and power
  • Impulse and momentum
  • Motion in a circle

Discrete mathematics

  • Mathematical preliminaries
  • Graphs and networks
  • Algorithms
  • Network algorithms
  • Decision making in project management
  • Graphical linear programming
  • Game theory

Additional pure mathematics

  • Sequences and series
  • Number theory
  • Groups
  • Further vectors
  • Surfaces and partial differentiation
Download AS Level specification
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