Mathematics

HoD: Mr T Jones

Mathematics is the exploration and use of patterns and relationships in quantities, space, and time. Statistics is the exploration and use of patterns and relationships in data. These two disciplines are related but different ways of thinking and of solving problems. Both equip students with effective means for investigating, interpreting, explaining, and making sense of the world in which they live.

Mathematicians and statisticians use symbols, graphs, and diagrams to help them find and communicate patterns and relationships, and they create models to represent both real-life and hypothetical situations. These situations are drawn from a wide range of social, cultural, scientific, technological, health, environmental, and economic contexts.

Topics covered span the three core strands of mathematics:

• Number and algebra,
• Measurement and geometry,
• Statistics including probability

Mathematics is a compulsory subject through to Year 11 and may be taken as an option in Years 12 & 13.