Further Maths · A-Level · Core Pure & options

A-Level Further Maths,
taught one to one

Online Further Maths tutoring for Years 12 and 13, from £14 a class: the compulsory Core Pure content plus whichever options your school has chosen. The same teacher every week, 55 minutes a class, and the first class is free.

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ClassArc is live one-to-one online maths tutoring for school-age children. One teacher and one child, for 55 minutes. The same teacher every week. Classes run inside our own classroom software, not a video call: a shared worksheet you both write on, a shared whiteboard, and answers that sync live.

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What Further Maths
actually adds

Further Mathematics is a second A-Level, sat alongside A-Level Maths. It goes deeper into pure mathematics and adds applied options, and it is usually chosen by students heading for maths, physics, engineering, computer science or economics.

Every specification shares one spine: a compulsory Core Pure component making up at least half the qualification, then options chosen by the school. AQA sets three papers with the options in the third, while Edexcel sets four with the options in Papers 3 and 4. OCR arranges it differently again, so we read your board's specification rather than assume.

Because it leans on the A-Level Maths content, most schools teach the two subjects side by side. Some finish A-Level Maths in Year 12 and give Year 13 over to Further Maths.

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A-Levels, one teacher. The same person can cover A-Level Maths and Further Maths, planning each week around whichever needs the time.

Strong at maths,
and still hitting a wall

Students taking this subject are rarely weak at maths. They stall on something new in kind: writing a proof that holds, treating a complex number as a point that rotates, or an option topic the class raced through.

The fix is usually understanding rather than more repetition. Once a student sees why multiplying by i turns a point a quarter-turn on the Argand diagram, De Moivre's theorem stops being a formula to memorise.

A proof is marked on the argument. A correct last line after a gap in the reasoning is not a proof.

Why we watch every line

Three things that decide a Further Maths grade.

i

A-Level Maths
that holds.

The course assumes quick, accurate calculus, trigonometric identities and algebraic manipulation. The free class tests these first, because a weakness there leaks into every other topic.

ii

Proof written
in full.

Induction questions reward complete reasoning, base case and inductive step both. On the shared worksheet the teacher sees each line as it is written and asks for the step that was skipped.

iii

The right
options.

Further Mechanics and Decision Maths call for very different preparation. We confirm your school's choices before the first lesson, not three weeks in.

How a Further Maths
class is spent

Fifty-five minutes, planned around the unit your school has reached this week.

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📥

Homework first

The class opens with last time's homework, already reviewed by the teacher, and goes straight to the question that went wrong.

ii
💡

The idea behind it

New content is taught for meaning rather than as a template: why a matrix moves a shape the way it does, why induction needs its base case.

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✍️

Your child writes

A question worked on the shared worksheet, with the teacher reading each line and stepping in only where the reasoning slips.

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📑

Board-specific practice

Later in the course, timed questions from your own board's past papers, then a walk through the mark scheme to see where the marks sit.

Core Pure and the options we teach

The full compulsory content, plus the main option routes across the boards.

Core Pure

  • Proof by induction: divisibility, series and matrix results
  • Complex numbers: Argand diagrams, modulus-argument form, loci, De Moivre's theorem, roots of unity
  • Matrices: transformations, determinants, inverses, invariant lines
  • Roots of polynomials, summation of series, the method of differences
  • Further calculus: improper integrals, volumes of revolution, mean values, Maclaurin series
  • Polar coordinates, hyperbolic functions, and vector equations of lines and planes
  • Differential equations: integrating factors, second order with constant coefficients, simple harmonic motion

Further Mechanics

  • Momentum and impulse
  • Work, energy and power
  • Elastic strings and springs
  • Circular motion and centres of mass

Further Statistics

  • Discrete and continuous random variables
  • Poisson and geometric distributions
  • Chi-squared tests

Decision and Discrete

  • Graph algorithms and networks
  • Linear programming
  • Critical path analysis

Further Pure and Additional Pure

The content here differs most by board, from further vectors to number theory or conic sections. Tell us which paper your child sits and the teacher works from that specification.

Option content varies by board, so we always teach from your board's current specification rather than a generic list.

Six reasons this suits
a Further Maths student

Specialist teaching, from home

Specialist teaching for this subject can be hard to find locally, especially for the applied options. Online, the teacher is matched to the course rather than the postcode.

One teacher for both A-Levels

The second A-Level builds straight on the first, so a teacher who sees both can spot where one is holding the other back.

The reasoning is visible

Teacher and student write on the same live worksheet. For proof and multi-part questions, watching the argument form matters more than checking the answer.

Your board, your options

AQA, Edexcel and OCR, including OCR B (MEI), taught to whichever options your school has chosen.

Honest about time

If the exam is close and the gap is wide, we say what is realistic in the weeks left rather than promising an outcome.

Priced for two years

From £14 a class, in blocks that never renew by themselves, with unused classes refunded if you stop.

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per class
8 classes · £104 total
  • 8 live 55-minute classes
  • KS1, KS2 & KS3 national curriculum
  • Weekly homework
  • Termly parent meeting
  • Same teacher every class
  • Free reschedule
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  • KS1, KS2 & KS3 national curriculum
  • Weekly homework
  • Termly parent meeting
  • Same teacher every class
  • Free reschedule
  • 15% saved vs Starter
Best value

Prices in pounds. Every class is 55 minutes, one-to-one, with the same teacher. First class free, no card required.

Alongside A-Level Maths

The pages Further Maths families read next.

Can one tutor help with both A-Level Maths and Further Maths?
Yes. The same ClassArc teacher can cover both, which helps because the Further Maths content builds directly on A-Level Maths. Classes are planned around whichever subject needs the time that week.
Which Further Maths options do you teach?
Further Pure, Further Mechanics, Further Statistics and Decision or Discrete, plus Additional Pure where a school uses OCR B (MEI). Tell us the board and the options when you book, so the teacher prepares the right papers.
My child's school does not offer Further Maths. Can they still take it?
We can teach the content, but your child would also need a school or exam centre willing to enter them as a private candidate, and centres usually charge a fee. Check that first, because the entry itself is outside what a tutor can arrange.
Is Further Maths much harder than A-Level Maths?
It is more abstract and moves faster, particularly in proof, complex numbers and matrices. Students who are comfortable with A-Level algebra and calculus usually manage well with steady, regular support.
How many Further Maths classes a week are typical?
Two a week suits most students, sometimes split between the two A-Levels with the same teacher. Three a week in the months before the summer exams is common.
Is the first Further Maths class free?
Yes, and no card is needed. It is a real 55-minute lesson, usually opening with the A-Level Maths skills the course depends on, and afterwards you get a straight account of what the teacher found.
free

On us, always

55 minutes. The real classroom. No card. We confirm details on email and WhatsApp within a day.

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