In Year 7 and 8 your mathematics study focuses mastery building your fluency and understanding in readiness for your future GCSE and even A level mathematics study. Our curriculum is carefully designed to ensure that all students get a firm grounding in the basic rules of number.

This is differentiated by depth, as opposed to students racing onto the next topic. This approach develops more confident mathematicians as students move through the curriculum. Your study of mathematics at Outwood Academy Ripon will make you think about the beauty of how numbers connect and how processes relate to each other.

Mathematics encourages you to discover those connections for yourself, to make you a detective of mathematics and to explore how to solve problems. This enables you to become an analytical thinker, someone who sees that the answer is only the beginning.

It will help you to learn how to make conjectures (a conclusion based on evidence, patterns and thought, but not yet confirmed with proof) to reason and to prove. It will enable you to be more logical in your approach to complex issues and be more analytical.

From Year 7 you will have the exciting opportunity to explore the four rules of number in great depth – how addition leads to multiplication, and how these two lead to subtraction and division. You will discover how these four rules can be applied to fractions, decimals and algebra and how multiplicative reasoning can be applied to many areas of maths, such as percentages, ratio, proportion and enlargement to name but a few.

You will get to investigate the beauty of mathematics connected to shape, and the usefulness it brings in analysing data and solving mechanical problems.