Core Maths

Course summary

Maths is for everyone. It is diverse, engaging and essential in equipping students with the right skills, to reach their future destination, whatever that may be. As well as providing a qualification in its own right, this course will consolidate students' mathematical understanding, build their confidence and competence in applying mathematical techniques to solve a range of problems and introduce them to new techniques and concepts that will prepare them for further study and future employment within a broad range of academic, professional and technical fields. The course has a compulsory element covering Data, Maths for personal finance and Estimation and an option element that will be chosen to best suit the cohort of students. Students will study: • Analysis of Data - including different types of data, collecting and sampling, representing data numerically, representing data diagrammatically and communicating findings through logical and reasoned arguments. • Maths for personal finance - numerical calculations, percentages, interest rates, repayments and the cost of credit, taxation and solutions to financial problems. • Estimation - the modelling cycle and Fermi estimation. The option modules include: • Statistical techniques • Critical path and risk analysis • Graphical techniques