Core Maths

ENRICHMENT

Course Overview

This Core Maths qualification is designed to better prepare you for the mathematical demands of study, employment and life.  It will develop your ability to think mathematically, logically and analytically and will build skills in applying maths to new problems and issues.  The course has been developed with employers, universities and professional bodies as valuable preparation for university study and employment.

Core Maths will maintain and develop your real-life mathematical skills.  The study is not purely theoretical or abstract, it can be applied on a day-to-day basis in work, study or life and includes a financial mathematics element.  The Core Maths initiative is a major part of the government’s plan to increase participation and raise standards in mathematics.  Studying Core Maths will also support other A-Level subjects – in particular with science, geography, business studies, product design, psychology and economics.

Course Content

Paper 1: Compulsory Content

• Analysis of Data

• Maths for personal finance

• Estimation

• Critical analysis of given data and models (including spreadsheets and tabular data).

Paper 2: Optional Content

• The normal distribution

• Probabilities and estimation

• Correlation and regression

or

• Critical path analysis

• Expectation and cost benefit analysis

or

• Graphical methods

• Rates of change

• Exponential functions
  
  

This Level 3 qualification is distinct from A Level Mathematics and it should be taken alongside your main programme of study.  It equates to half an A Level.

Course Entry Requirements

5 or above in GCSE Mathematics

Course Specification

AQA Level 3 Mathematical Studies

Core Maths Specification link