Student Area
Should I study Further Mathematics?
Enrichment & Extension Materials
GCSE extension materials and mathematical diversions, including mathematical challenges and puzzles.
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Providing Further Maths Tuition
The FMSP can provide Further Mathematics tuition to students in schools and colleges that do not offer it.
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Real-world mathematics
The maths you learn at A level has wide applications in real-world engineering, science, computing, business and economics – it’s just about the most useful subject you could choose.
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Podcasts and Webcasts
Podcasts are a great way to listen to topical discussions often including mathematical topics. Mathematical podcasts include:Plus magazine podcasts
More or Less (BBC radio 4)
Travels in a Mathematical World (IMA)
The Royal Instituition provide webcasts of their Christmas Lectures, including mathematical ones from Christopher Zeeman, Ian Stewart and Marcus du Sautoy.
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Posters
Mathematical posters produced by university students who have been previous winners in our annual competition:
- The beauty of fractals
- In search of the shape of the universe
- The Zeta function
- Modern cryptography and mathematics
- Curves of constant width
- Fibonacci numbers and music
- Projective geometry
- Markovian spam filtering
More information about this year's poster competition is available here.
Find out more about: Desargues' theorem, Pappus’s theorem and Pascal’s theorem
Plus magazine
Issue 55 of PlusIn this issue Plus are joining in the celebrations of it being 10 years since the first fraft of the human genome was published.
Plus is an internet magazine which aims to introduce readers to the beauty and the practical applications of mathematics.
Ask Nrich
FMSP students can get help with maths problems at Ask NRICH: www.nrich.maths.org/
For information on using the forums see: Using Ask NRICH
Why study Further Mathematics?
Informed choices - A Russell Group guide to making decisions about post-16 education
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions frequently asked by students about Further Mathematics and the FMSP.
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Quotes
"... aspects of Maths that we'd gone through in FM have come in as priceless during my first year of my MMath degree. "
Adnan Vohra
“When students begin an engineering course with a further maths qualification, whether at A-level or AS, we find they are significantly better prepared to manage their studies.”
John Morton, Chief executive: Engineering and Technology Board
More quotes from teachers, universities and professional bodies.
