At Kelvin Hall, the study of Mathematics will encourage pupils to think deeply and help you to problem solve more effectively – a great life skill that all universities and employers will appreciate. Across your studies, you will explore number, algebra, shape and space and statistics. Lessons will provide a wide range of opportunities for constructing your own learning and discovering your own rules, through the use of concrete materials such as counters, through pictorial representations to demonstrate mathematical concepts and to apply these to solve problems, both abstract and from real-life. Maths lessons will be full of discussion, questioning, proving and explaining. Mathematics will expand your mind, you are going to love it!

Year 7 to Year 9

Hours per week: 4

In Years 7 and 8, your mathematics study focuses on mastery, building your fluency and understanding in readiness for your future GCSE. 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.

Year 10 and Year 11

Exam board: OCR

Hours per week: 4

Maths is split into two tiers, foundation and higher. Both tiers consist of 3 exams, 2 calculator papers and 1 non-calculator paper. The overall exam is 300 marks, 100 marks on each exam paper.

The units in Years 10 and 11 are interleaved to ensure pupils not only have a thorough understanding of the topic, but then have the opportunity to apply their learning in different contexts allowing them to develop their fluency within maths.