A level maths

A level Maths.......what are the sub categories in them? I know of mechanics and statistics is there another part? Can someone explain them to me? When doing Maths A level do you pick just one area?

Reply 1

username392640

Decision is also another one.
In AS you do C1, C2 and an applied one e.g. S1, M1 and D1.
Then in A2 you do C3, C4 and then either S2, D2 and M2. I think you can change too.

Reply 2

AshDUOL

Mrs NM

A level Maths.......what are the sub categories in them? I know of mechanics and statistics is there another part? Can someone explain them to me? When doing Maths A level do you pick just one area?

There's also Decision/Discrete.

Stats deals with probabilities and outcomes.

Mechanics deals with the mathematics of movement such as forces.

Decision deals with solving problems such as minimising route distances.

Most schools/colleges offer pure and one of the three others but some schools/colleges take the easy way out and offer the easiest exams from all three disciplines.

Reply 3

wabbajack123

Well its kind of hard to explain

you can either do one option block where you have:

core maths and decision; which involves algorithms, sorting and stuff like that
core maths and statistics; which is probability etc
core maths and mechanics; which is the best IMO and is basically the maths behind physics
core maths and further maths; which is very interesting and is just more advanced and theoretical maths on top of the core stuff

or you can do 2 option blocks (usually further maths and maths) where you do stack loads of maths and basically pick and choose which modules to do over two years. You end up with 2 A levels though.... last year I did C1 C2 C3 C4 D1 and M1.... and if I hadnt dropped it I would have done FP1 FP2 FP3 M2 M3 and S1

PM if you want to know anything else :wink: