Thinking about doing Maths A level, but not Further Maths - disadvantaged?

[amidaiwas]

Helping dd with her A level choices.
She's thinking of maths but definitely not Further Maths. Surely all the A/A* grades in maths are swooped up by those dedicated mathematicians doing both?

Thoughts?

Yes, he's misunderstood. FM is further to 'normal' maths. It covers more topics, or some in greater depth.

Thanks Errol. You know what they're like - very hard to argue with a teen!

If she likes the philosophy of physics, she might actually enjoy further maths. When I did it, single maths was more remembering techniques, like GCSE, then further maths got into logic and more complicated algebra and the more interesting side of statistics. You really understood the why for the techniques that the single maths simply applied. I've heard stories of mathematicians who liked numbers struggling at university because it's all philosophy.

Would the school let her take it for a term or two and drop down if it's too much?

thanks all, hugely helpful