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A-Level Maths
A-Level Further maths
A-Level Core Maths
Maths at Horsforth School
Maths at Horsforth School
Year 7
An architect would use scale drawings in their plans and elevation drawings.
All industries use percentage increase and decrease, usually linked to retail in year 7.
Year 8
Links to debt with negative integers and rounding values to 2 decimal places this is used daily in banking.
Business owners would use fractions decimals and percentages to look at their success rate, profit and loss etc.
Financial advisors use their knowledge of reverser percentages for loans, mortgages and interest rates are key to personal and business decisions such as buying property or vehicles.
Chef’s use their knowledge of ratio for scaling recipes to suit a given number of clients to their restaurants.
Year 9
Medical profession e.g. phlebotomist will use standard form when looking microscopically at the size of items.
Gardeners use the skills in area and perimeter in measuring items such as paving slabs for patios etc.
Captains of ships for holiday cruises etc. use bearings for ship locations when docking into port.
Year 10
Captains of ships for holiday cruises etc. use bearings for ship locations when docking into port.
Psychologists use interpreting and representing data to conclude on studies.
Year 11
Careers talks on the use of Mathematics as an A Level to support other subjects and university courses.
Year 12
Maths & FM (Mechanics): content links made to engineering.
Maths (Statistics): content links made to medical research, product development, sports; basically any job comparing performance/quality of two teams/products.
Maths (Exponential growth/decay): content links made to scientific research (bacteria growth and radioactive decay)
Core Maths (finance):
links made to banking (interest rates, currency exchange, APR & AER, RPI and CPI, house prices and mortgages) and self-employment planning a budget using a spreadsheet.
Core Maths (employment regulations regarding work ratios and work space).
Year 13
Maths & FM (Mechanics): content links made to engineering.
Maths (Statistics): content links made to medical research, product development, sports; basically any job comparing performance/quality of two teams/products.
FM (Discrete): content links to Computer Programming
Core Maths (medical): content links to medical screening.
Core Maths (business): content links to business and risk (banks offsetting saving and lending)
Core Maths (fraud): content links to identifying fraud (police/business).
Core Maths (Voting and decision making systems): content links to politics/gameshows.
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