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    To prepare for an A Level Further Mathematics course beginning in September, students must complete the following tasks over the summer: fully complete a summer workpack; practice solving equations for 1 hour per week; and revise topics including stem-and-leaf diagrams, boxplots, histograms, and tree diagrams. Students are also recommended to purchase a recommended textbook, bring a suitable scientific calculator to lessons, and read one or two enrichment books that will help transition thinking to the university level approach required for further mathematics studies.

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    To prepare for an A Level Further Mathematics course beginning in September, students must complete the following tasks over the summer: fully complete a summer workpack; practice solving equations for 1 hour per week; and revise topics including stem-and-leaf diagrams, boxplots, histograms, and tree diagrams. Students are also recommended to purchase a recommended textbook, bring a suitable scientific calculator to lessons, and read one or two enrichment books that will help transition thinking to the university level approach required for further mathematics studies.

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    A LEVEL FURTHER MATHEMATICS

    CORE PREPARATION: You must complete all of these tasks:

    You need to be really good at algebra (re-arranging expressions, solving quadratic and
    simultaneous equations) and also very good at getting the correct answer at the first attempt. Much
    of what you will study will involve using algebra, right angled triangle trigonometry and surds, so
    these topics need to be 100% secure in your mind at the start of the course in September.

    In preparation for joining this course in September you must:

     Fully complete the summer workpack and bring it to your first Maths lesson
     Practise solving equations through the summer for about 1 hour per week
     Revise Stem & Leaf diagrams and boxplots
     Revise Histograms
     Revise tree diagrams for replacement and non-replacement questions.

    Remember to use websites such as MyMaths (www.MyMaths.co.uk) to help with topics that you
    are struggling with.

    You are strongly recommended to buy the textbook shown below. This book covers the material for
    both years of the two-year A-level Mathematics course, and will be of enormous help to your
    independent study and learning outside, as well as inside, the classroom

     Mathematics for A-level, published by CGP (ISBN 9781782947233)

    You are also expected to provide yourself with a suitable scientific calculator and to bring this with
    you to every Maths lesson. The model we recommend is the Casio fx 991-EX ClassWiz, which
    provides all the functionality essential for A-level Mathematics and Further Mathematics. There are
    other (more expensive) models available, some of which offer graphical functions. If you have any
    questions about the suitability of a particular model, please contact the Mathematics department for
    advice.

    ENRICHMENT: You should read one or two of these:

    Taking Further Maths usually means that your degree will either be based entirely in maths or will
    contain a significant proportion of maths. The subject changes considerably at university level, so
    you need to begin to read some books that will help you get prepared for this change. The books
    do not contain maths questions to do, but instead describe how you need to change the way you
    approach doing questions. There are many books to choose from, the ones below are suggested
    because they are relatively easy to read and highlight things very well that will not be obvious to
    you at all!

     ‘Cakes, Custard and Category Theory: Easy recipes for understanding complex maths’ by
    Eugenia Cheng
     ‘How to study for a maths degree’ by Lara Alcock
     ‘Letters to a Young Mathematician’ by Ian Stewart
     ‘From here to Infinity’ by Ian Stewart
     ‘1089 and All That’ by David Acheson
     ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ by Simon Singh

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