What you need to know
Check yourself against these “I can” statements.
- I can sum a finite series using the method of differences
- I can find second and higher derivatives of a function
- I can write a function as an infinite series in ascending powers of x using a Maclaurin series
- I can find series expansions of compound functions by combining known series
Practise this topic
2 resources🧮 Tool
Formula Sheet
Make a printable formula sheet: tick the shapes you want (2D area, perimeter and arc length, volume, surface area, and sector, arc and segment in radians), the eight circle theorems with diagrams, the GCSE formulae sheet…
🧮 ToolVisual Proofs
Animated visual proofs of Pythagoras’ theorem, of the sums of integers, odd numbers, squares and cubes, and of key results in algebra, geometric series, trigonometry and inequalities. They play like Shape Formulas: drag the bar…
These are the pages for Series in the A Level Further Maths scheme of work, following Pearson Edexcel A Level Further Mathematics (9FM0). Open this topic in Mr Wells Maths to see it alongside the rest of the course.