Subject Team
Mr. Henning (Head of Department)
Mr. Gamble
Subject Overview
Maths is made up of different topics, including number work, algebra, geometry, measurements and handling data. In year 8 there is a focus on working without calculators and building up Numeracy skills, whereas in year 9 and 10 there is a mix of calculator and non-calculator work. Maths is a core subject that has to be studied for GCSE and many jobs/ courses require pupils to have achieved at least a C grade at GCSE.
What You Will Learn
Year 8:
- Factors/ Multiples/ Primes/ Square
- Adding and subtracting fractions
- Finding percentages of amounts
- Area and perimeter
- BODMAS
- Negative numbers
- Algebra collecting terms
- Algebra- Substitution
- Algebra- Solving Equations
- Probability (Sample space diagrams)
- Measurements (adding decimals)
- Averages
- Angles
- Drawing and reading pie charts
- Sequences-nth term
- Scatter Graphs
- Graph work
Year 9:
- HCF, LCM, Prime factor decomposition
- Rounding and estimating
- Circles- Area and circumference
- Pythagoras Theorem
- Algebra- solving equations with x on both sides
- Forming and solving equations
- Ratio
- Proportion
- Percentages (increase and decrease)
- Percentages- expressing as a percentage
- Formulas and substitution
- Volume of prisms
- Transformations
- Experimental Probability (Relative frequency and tree diagrams)
- Angles on parallel lines
- Averages from a frequency table and stem and leaf
- Expanding Double brackets
- Simultaneous equations
- Trial and Improvement
- Bearings and constructions
Year 10:
- Multiplying and dividing fractions and decimals
- Law of indices and standard form
- Significant figures and upper and lower limits
- Simple and compound interest
- Averages from grouped data
- Cumulative frequency
- Algebra- factorisation
- Volume and surface area
- Probability of multiple events
- Transformations- enlargements
- Straight line graphs
- Inequalities and change the subject of the formula
- Quadratic equations
- Similar triangles
- Trigonometry
- Questionnaires and sampling
Careers Paths
- Accountant
- Actuary
- Aerospace engineer
- Astronomer
- CAD technician
- Cryptographer
- Data scientist
- Doctor
- Economist
- Financial trader
- Game designer
- Investment analyst
- Market researcher
- Mathematician
- Medical statistician
- Meteorologist
- Meteorologist
- Neuropsychologist
- Operations research analyst
- Quantity surveyor
- Research scientist
- Risk management officer
- Software engineer
- Software tester
- Statistician
- Teacher or lecturer
- Technician
- Vet
Featured in our gallery below you can see our Year 10 pupils who recently completed their transfer exams, with Corey, Daniel-George, and Catalin achieving the highest Maths marks in their bands. Excellent work boys! The Maths department was also delighted with the results of the other pupils pictured. Your hard work, determination, and perseverance—especially when the work was challenging—have not gone unnoticed. Well done to everyone!
