Mathematics Advanced

Contact person: Mr Chittick

Units: 2 units

Prerequisites:

The Mathematics Advanced Year 11 course has been developed on the assumption that students have studied the content and achieved the outcomes of the NSW Mathematics Years 7–10 Syllabus and in particular, the content and outcomes of all substrands of Stage 5 (core), the following substrands of Stage 5 (Core/Path): Algebraic techniques, Surds and indices, Equations, Linear relationships, Trigonometry and Pythagoras’ theorem, Single variable data analysis and at least some of the content from the following substrands of Stage 5 (Core/Path):Non-linear relationships, Properties of Geometrical Shapes. Students are required to make a formal application to this course in Term 3 of Year 10 and provide evidence indicating that they have maintained, as a minimum, an average of 75% across all assessment tasks in the Stage 5 (Core/Path) (Advanced) course, or a minimum of 85% in the Stage 5 (Core) (Intermediate) course. Students who fail to meet this requirement will be given the opportunity to sit for an examination to verify their suitability for this traditionally demanding course.

The diagram below indicates possible pathways of learning into the Stage 6 Mathematics course dependent on the student’s knowledge and level of understanding of Stage 5 Mathematics.

Exclusions:

Students may not study any other Stage 6 Mathematics course in conjunction with Mathematics Standard 2.

Course description:

This course is designed for those wanting to study mathematics at University. Those students wishing to study significant levels of mathematics at University are advised to speak to the Careers Adviser and Head Teacher of Mathematics for further advice.

Course content:

The Mathematics Advanced Year 11 & 12 course content consists of five Topics, with the Topics divided into Subtopics .

Areas of study in the Preliminary course:

Functions
Trigonometric Functions
Calculus
Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
Statistical Analysis

Areas of study in the HSC course:

Functions
Trigonometric Functions
Calculus
Financial Mathematics
Statistical Analysis

Assessment procedures:

Preliminary course

The progress of students will be assessed throughout the course by a range of tasks such as open book tests, examination, projects and/or assignments with a final HSC examination being sat. A number of tasks will be used to determine a student's school-based assessment.

HSC course

In addition to the assessment tasks across all of the content of the course, a single written paper of three hours duration in the form of a HSC examination will take place.

Extension courses are available for students studying Mathematics Advanced.

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