Year 10 Applied Math

New in 2025!

Year 10 Applied Mathematics enables students to develop their everyday numeracy practices to make sense of their personal, public, and future vocational lives. Students develop foundational mathematical skills with consideration of their personal, home, vocational and community environments and contexts, and an awareness and use of accessible and appropriate technologies.

This study focuses on providing students with the fundamental mathematical knowledge, skills, understandings to solve problems in real life contexts for a range of workplace, personal, further learning and community settings relevant to contemporary society. 

Applied math includes foundational skills related to measurement, shape, numbers, and graphs applied to tasks that are part of the students’ everyday lives. Students experience learning in structured and supported activities and tasks that require simple processes such as counting, sorting, comparing and performing basic arithmetic operations with whole numbers and common, simple fractions and decimals, money, or recognising common spatial representations and measurements in highly familiar contexts.

Students that select Year 10 Applied Math will not be able to select VCE General Math Unit 1-2 in the following year. Year 10 Applied Math is for students that are looking to transition into the VCE-VM in year 11  or not select a mathematic subject as a part of their VCE ATAR pathway. 

Assessments:

• CAT  

• CAT 

• Semester Exam 

• CAT  

• CAT  

• Semester Exam 

Further study options

• VPC Numeracy Units 1 -2 (Unscored)

• VCE-VM Numeracy  Units 1-4 (Unscored) 

*Note: There is no pathway in to VCE General Mathematics from Year 10 Pathways Mathematics.