| | | | Mathematics | Mathematics is a core subject for all students throughout their six year cycle in The King's Hospital. Mathematics is a wide-ranging subject that is both practical and theoretical, geared to applications and of intrinsic interest. Its manifestations permeate the natural and constructed world and provide the language and techniques for handling many aspects of everyday and scientific life. It is also an intellectual discipline that deals with abstractions and logical argument.
Junior Certificate Mathematics is offered at three levels: Foundation, Ordinary and Higher, with separate syllabuses for each level.
Subject content is presented at each syllabus level under the headings:
Sets
Number systems
Applied arithmetic and measure
Algebra
Statistics (and data handling at Foundation level)
Geometry
Trigonometry (Ordinary level and Higher level only)
Functions and graphs (and relations at Foundation level)
Junior Certificate mathematics is examined at all three levels by means of terminal examination papers. There is one examination paper at Foundation level and two at Ordinary and Higher levels.
The current syllabuses were introduced in 2000 and first examined in 2003. The NCCA is currently conducting a review of post-primary mathematics education.
Leaving Certificate Mathematics is provided at three levels: Foundation, Ordinary and Higher, with separate syllabuses for each level.
Subject content is presented at Ordinary level and Higher level under the headings:
Arithmetic (OL only)
Algebra
Geometry
Trigonometry
Sequences and Series
Functions and Calculus
Discrete Mathematics and Statistics
Options (HL)
Further Calculus and Series
Further Probability and Statistics
Groups
Further geometry
Options (OL)
Further Geometry
Plane Vectors
Further Sequences and Series
Linear Programming
At Foundation level, subject content is presented under the following headings:
Number systems
Arithmetic
Areas and volumes
Algebra
Statistics and probability
Trigonometry
Functions and graphs
Geometry
Leaving Certificate mathematics is examined at all three levels by means of terminal examination papers. There are two papers at each level.
The Ordinary level and Higher level syllabuses were introduced in September 1992 and first examined in 1994. The Foundation level syllabus was introduced in September 1995, replacing the Ordinary Alternative course, and was first examined in 1997. Leaving Certificate mathematics is included in the current NCCA review of mathematics education.
| | | Mathematics Department
Mark Campion, BA (Mod), HDipEd (TCD) Co-ordinator
John Rafter, BSc (DIT), BA (Mod), HDipEd (TCD)
John Aiken, BA, HDipEd (TCD)
Ciara Gallagher, BA (Mod), HDipEd (TCD)
Orla Cummins, BA (Hons), HDipEd (NUI)
Oliver Malone, BA (Hons), HDipEd (NUI)
Derek Tucker, BComm (UPE), HDipEd (TCD)
David Plummer, BSc (NUI), PGCE (Dunelm) | | |
|  |  |  |  | | | | Every effort is made to ensure that pupils in The King's Hospital develop an interest in all matters mathematical | | |  | | | | The King's Hospital School was represented at the National Mathemamtics Team competition in UCC on Saturday 7th March by Jenny Hughes, Ben Brooks, Max McDonald & Evan O'Brien - they finished a most creditable 4th - having already won the Dublin area to qualify for the National Finals - well done to all ... | | | | | | |
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