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Support materials for teachers of AS and A2 Mathematics, Statistics and FSMQ

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Textbooks for Further Pure Mathematics

Further Pure 2

Further Pure 2 was written by David Wilkinson who has been a senior examiner since 1969. He has many years of experience of teaching mathematics at an advanced level. This textbook has been revised to contain material now covered in MFP2 as a result of revisions to the 2007 specification.

• Further Pure 2
  
  

Further Pure 3

Further Pure 3 was written by Donald Bourne who is a former university lecturer, now retired from teaching. He has been a senior examiner for many years. He has had several works published including a substantial textbook.

• Further Pure 3
  
  

Further Pure 4

Further Pure 4 was written by Stan Dolan who is an experienced teacher, senior examiner and textbook author. He has been involved in many mathematics initiatives and has taught the subject for many years.

• Further Pure 4
  
  

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Support Material

The following support material has been produced by the chief examiner for Statistics. This is designed to aid candidates and teachers when covering these topics.

MS/SS1A/W and MS/SS1B

• Divisor n or (n – 1)
  
  

MS03

• Difference of two independent Poisson means
  
  
• Proof of mean and variance of Binomial and Poisson distributions
  
  

MS04

• Estimators
  
  
• F – distribution
  
  
• Proofs of mean and variance of Geometric and Exponential distributions
  
  

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Exampro software

Teachers may wish to read about software based on past AQA question papers and mark schemes.

You will be entering a third-party website if you select this link. AQA is not responsible for third-party websites.

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Read/download the Teachers' Guide ( 461KB ) for GCE Mathematics in PDF format

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• Finding the right questions in AQA past papers (181KB)
  A mapping of past AQA GCE Mathematics questions to the new GCE Mathematics specification can be read/downloaded in pdf format. Please note this document is 34 pages long.

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Outline schemes of work

Several outline schemes of work for the new AQA GCE Mathematics can be read / downloaded in pdf format

• Outline schemes of work (126KB)
  
  

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