Mathematics

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Course Notes

In Year 7 students follow the Mathematics Enhancement Programme initiated by Exeter University. This is an interactive course that encourages students to participate orally and to share their work with others by explaining their solutions on the board. The course is designed to promote mental skills and a calculator is not used for the first six months and, after that, only on specific occasions. The work completed is in line with the National Numeracy Strategy. ICT is used to introduce spreadsheets as a follow up to the work done in primary schools.

Students are set into seven groups. Students in set 7 have supplementary work using the Maths Direct series of text books, and the Springboard materials are used to help those that need to achieve Level 4.

Topics that will be covered in Year 7 include graphs, angles, number patterns, areas, perimeters, volumes, data collection, linear equations, scale drawing and probability. There is a high proportion of numerical work including place value, decimals, money and fractions. Activities are included to extend topics and allow investigational skills to be used.

It is integral to the course that a reasonable amount of homework is completed after every lesson.