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Mathematics
The maths department is situated at the heart of King's occupying the classrooms along the main corridor. Pupils arriving in Year 9 (our 3rd form) follow an integrated three-year course designed by the head of department. This covers all the work required for GCSE, but with far more besides, related to the ability of the individual pupil. The number of pupils scoring below grade B at GCSE is now in single digits each year.
Maths has the largest number of 6th form pupils at King's; in 2011 74% achieved A grades at AS level and 59% grade A or A* at A2. Numbers taking further maths in the 6th form have increased dramatically, while The Jacobians (the long established 6th form maths society) regularly combines mathematical and social events and continues to flourish. We have had visits to external lectures in Bristol, Plymouth, Glamorgan and Exeter as well as a small group attending a lecture at the Royal Society.
'Maths Clinic' is held three lunchtimes a week, when staff and 6th form pupils are on hand to give extra help to anyone wanting it. Over a hundred individual pupils enter the UK Intermediate and/or Senior Maths Challenge, which leads to the UK Maths Olympiads. We also enter teams in the UK Team Maths Challenges; in 2008 our junior team (in collaboration with King's Hall School) competed in London in the National Final of the Junior Team Maths Challenge. In 2010 the staff maths team was narrowly beaten into second place in a competition at Exeter University, won by a scratch team of professors.
Staff profiles
Head of department John Round was an Oxford Scholar, earning a first in maths after specialising in theoretical fluid mechanics. He has been an examiner for mathematics at various levels since 1984 and was involved with two textbooks for the new further maths A level. Both his daughters joined King's Hall aged three, have recently left King’s and started University. They said that having their father as their maths teacher was not too embarrassing.
Tim Haynes joined King's in 2005 from Reading Blue Coat School. Prior to that he worked as a solicitor in both Exeter and London. He is a graduate of Liverpool University and specialises in statistics at A Level.
Gerd Wrobel was born, raised and educated in Germany. He holds a degree in maths and physics and, after completing a PGCE, has been working in England since the late 90s. He moved to King's in 2006, having previously taught in Glastonbury and Warminster. He has a son currently at King's Hall, and a daughter who is still too young to take any notice of organised education.
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