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Do you want to know about hyperbolic functions? Can you find the best deal for your mobile phone? Would you like to know what makes you slide or topple when skiing? Our maths department caters for you all! From Years 7 to 11 we aim to give you the best possible chance at GCSE as well as showing you many aspects of this fascinating subject. About half the sixth form now study Advanced Level mathematics and some take further maths, STEP papers and Advanced Extension awards as well. In Year 11 all girls enter for GCSE. The girls are entered for the level most suited to their ability. This usually results in three or four sets taking the higher level and one set taking the intermediate level although from September 2006 when intermediate level is no longer available all sets will start on higher. Each student has a copy of our "Homework and Assessment" sheet and a list of topics being taught that year on their "Progress" sheets. Mathematics is a very popular subject at Advanced Level with modules being taught in Pure Mathematics, Mechanics and Statistics. Our results at both GCSE and Advanced Level are excellent. Three maths clinics take place every week covering the whole age range and we give regular retake module lessons plus after school and holiday exam practice sessions. We expect the girls to work hard but are always willing to help. Every year some of our students go to University to read mathematics which delights us. We are not only interested in public exam success. Each year we run a Survival Maths contest between the forms from Year 5 to Year 13 to make sure that everyone can cope with the everyday maths required for the outside world. All our students from Years 7 to 11 plus our Advanced students take a national maths challenge every year with considerable success and we enter a team for the Hans Woyda maths competition. We run a club to enable girls to learn the game of "Bridge". In Year 9 able pupils are offered the chance of attending maths masterclasses which take place for the borough at Bromley High School on Saturday mornings as well as taking the World Class Tests in Maths. Year 8 and 9 provide four girls for a regional team challenge in maths. We run a "Problem of the week" competition to encourage the younger girls to think; we often send home puzzles to entertain you during the holidays and we have notice boards with maths articles from the newspapers and general information about our clinics and competitions. Girls attend outside lectures to widen their interest in the subject. This year they have been entertained by "From Euler to Sudoku" and "Knotty Problems." In school we make use of Excel, Autograph, Cabri-Geometrie and Virtual Image software on starters, Maths Now! algebra and trigonometry. From Years 7 to 10 each class has one lesson per fortnight in a computer room and we are able to demonstrate the software in our classrooms. The girls are taught to use their calculators efficiently but we still regard ability at mental arithmetic as very important and we make good use of the government's numeracy strategy. The school bookshop contains revision material for GCSE and Advanced level as well as calculators and geometrical instruments which all students are expected to bring to maths lessons. The library has a set of CD Roms for revision purposes as well as a wide selection of maths books some of which are relevant to exam specifications and some of which are of general mathematical interest. We encourage girls to use the following websites http://nrich.maths.org which is a maths club for ages 5 - 18 and would like to suggest that they may find the following interesting http://plus.maths.org an internet maths magazine for 15+ same as www.pass.maths.org maths magazine for older students www.gcsemaths.fsnet.co.uk GCSE and A level maths revision printable notes and examples www.worldclassarena.org tells you about the World class arena and tests. Online challenge suitable for Years 5-6 or 7-9 www.mymaths.co.uk click on games - some good mathematical games, some based on well known TV programmes www.joethedragon.co.uk puzzles and games for younger students www.coolmath.com (American hence math not maths!) www.mathsnet.net used in class to practise algebra Bromley High School is a great place to study mathematics. Come and tell us if there is more we could do to improve your enjoyment and understanding of mathematics. We think it is a great subject and we want you to think the same! Example of Summer Holiday Puzzles 1. 76 people entered a tennis tournament. How many matches needed to be played to find a winner? 2. A farmer who kept hens and goats counted them one day and discovered that, added together they had 99 heads and feet. If he had twice as many hens as goats how many heads were there and how many feet? 3. A vase smashed to the ground when the mother, who had inherited it, was out of the room. She demanded to know who had broken it but her four daughters all denied responsibility.
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