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Mathematics

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out." [Robert Collier]

The Mathematics department is committed to:

  • ensuring all pupils at Manchester Academy have access to high quality teaching and support in and out of lessons;
  • helping all pupils to become numerate citizens;
  • ensuring all pupils are pushed to achieve their potential;
  • helping our pupils develop skills for life-long learning.

To deliver these aims, we will endeavour to:

  • ensure all pupils have the opportunity of taking a qualification in GCSE Mathematics;
  • ensure pupils sit exams that are appropriate to the individual and at a time appropriate to the individual;
  • offer higher mathematics courses for those pupils wishing to take them
  • offer a range of courses post -16;
  • make sure all pupils know where they are at and where they need to be within Mathematics;
  • use a range of teaching styles incorporating ICT adapted to the learning needs of our pupils.

The key aims of the Mathematics department are to encourage students to develop:

 
  • a positive attitude to Mathematics as an interesting and enjoyable subject in which they can have confidence and achieve success
  • an ability to think clearly and logically, and to communicate Mathematical knowledge independently and cooperatively
  • an understanding of the interdependence of different branches of Mathematics
  • the ability to use Mathematics across the curriculum
  • the knowledge, skill and understanding needed to apply a range of Mathematical concepts to situations which may arise in their own lives
  • to raise pupils’ attainment, making them confident in their own abilities, and giving the satisfaction of having achieved to all.
  • to develop schemes of work, using guidance from the National Curriculum where appropriate, that reflect the needs of our students
  • to ensure that all students are given the opportunity to succeed and develop at a fast pace
  • to embrace new technology as a means to raising attainment.
  • to provide a firm foundation for further study and appreciation of the subject.

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash." [George S. Patton]