Kotara High School

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GENERAL 2

 

Course Description: General 2 Mathematics

 

The course is presented in FIVE content areas: Financial Mathematics, Data and Statistics, Measurement, Probability, Algebra and Modelling and is divided into a Preliminary and HSC course as follows:

 

 

                     HSC Mathematics General 2 Course

Strand:         Financial Mathematics  FM4    Credit and borrowing

FM5    Annuities and loan repayments

Strand:         Data and Statistics

 DS4    Interpreting sets of data

 DS5    The normal distribution

 DS6    Sampling and populations

Strand:         Measurement

 MM4    Further applications of area and volume

 MM5    Applications of trigonometry

 MM6    Spherical geometry

Strand:        Probability

PB2    Multistage events and applications of probability

Strand:       Algebra and Modelling

AM3    Further algebraic skills and techniques

 AM4    Modelling linear relationships

 AM5    Modelling non-linear relationships

Focus Study:   Mathematics and Health

 FSHe1    Body measurements

 FSHe2    Medication

 FSHe3    Life expectancy

Focus Study:    Mathematics and Resources

 FSRe1    Water availability and usage

 FSRe2    Dams, land and catchment areas

 FSRe3    Energy and sustainability