Biology at Ashbourne is an exciting and challenging subject. We offer our students an outstanding educational experience through a combination of high quality teaching, plenty of classroom practicals and a wide range of science excursions and visits.
Ashbourne’s A level Maths Easter Revision courses are offered as individual modules that run in morning or afternoon sessions over five days and are taught by a selection of Ashbourne tutors including longstanding members of staff.
Richard Clark has a masters in Maths from Bath University and PGCE from Oxford University. He has experience teaching all levels of Maths. He was a software developer prior to becoming a teacher. Rupinder Dhillon, a longstanding member of the department, is a graduate of Chemistry from Brunel and one of the most outstanding communicators of Mathematics it has been our pleasure to employ. Phil Ellis-Martin has a first class degree in Mathematics from Warwick and loves teaching Maths questions as great puzzles to be solved. Chella Nathan has a BSc in Maths and Physics and B.Eng and has been teaching for more than twenty years. He also heads the college’s long-running astro-physics club. Sean Pillai is Deputy Head of Year 13 and careers leader at the college. He has a masters degree with honours from the University of Warwick in Civil Engineering with Business Management. Barry Rhule has a PhD in Physics and is a member of the London Mathematical Society. He has been teaching at the college for many years. Madeeha Saad has a masters in Medical Statistics and two BSc degrees in Mathematical Sciences and Mathematics. She has been teaching Maths and Further Maths at Ashbourne for many years. Abdul Sami supports our outstanding Mathematic Olympians with supplementary classes in Mathematics and has a PhD in Mathematics from Imperial College. He taught at the Michigan State University for three years before joining the college. Imran Shah also has more than 20 years of experience as well as a first class degree in Physics from Imperial College. He supervises Physics Faculty at Ashbourne and also oversees Lower Sixth Mathematics at Ashbourne.
Together this outstanding team has helped our students achieve outstanding A level results.
Ashbourne follows the Edexcel syllabus for and AS and A level Maths. We offer the modules outlined below.
Straight lines, quadratics, equations and inequalities
Graphs and transformations
Circles
Binomial expansion
Trigonometry
Vectors
Differentiation and integrations
Exponentials and logarithms
Partial fractions
Functions, inverse functions and graphs
Arithmetic and geometric series
Binomial expansion
Trigonometry
Parametric equations
Differentiation chain, product, parametric, implicit rates of change
Approximating roots of equation, Newton-Rhapson
Integration reverse chain, substitution by parts, partial fractions trapezium rule differential equations
Vectors
Measures of location and spread
Mean, median, mode, quartiles, variance, standard deviation
Representation of data
Cumulative frequency graphs, histograms
Correlation
Probability, tree diagrams, Venn diagrams
Probability distributions, binomial distribution
Hypothesis testing
Regression, correlation and hypothesis testing
Conditional probability, independent events
Normal distribution and hypothesis testing
Constant acceleration
Forces and motion
Variable acceleration
Moments and centres of mass
Forces, friction and the inclined plane
Projectiles
Statics, dynamics and connected particles
Vectors and variable acceleration