Maths in Focus 11 & 12 have been rewritten and updated to cover the new senior mathematics courses: Mathematics Advanced and Mathematics Extension 1 and 2.
Designed for students heading towards an HSC exam, an ATAR and university studies
Each chapter begins with a Chapter Outline that includes a list of chapter objectives and a Terminology glossary
Graded exercises include multiple-choice questions, HSC-style questions and realistic applications
Investigations explore the syllabus in more detail, providing ideas for assessment tasks and modelling activities
Did you know? sections contain interesting facts and applications of the mathematics learned in the chapter
Each chapter ends with a Test Yourself revision set and a Challenge exercise
Covers both Advanced and Extension 1 courses. Extension 1 is specifically highlighted in the Contents pages, exercises and individual questions/examples
Practice sets (after several chapters) include exam-style questions from various chapters, including short-answer, free-response and multiple-choice questions
Syllabus grid and codes, answers and index included.
Contents
Sequences and series
Transformation of functions
Vectors
Trigonometric functions
Further differentiation
Geometrical applications of differentiation
Integration
Further integration
Statistics
Applications of vectors
Correlation and regression
Investments, annuities and loans
Differential equations
Continuous probability distributions
Binomial distributions
About the Author
Margaret Grove has spent more than 30 years teaching HSC Mathematics, most recently at Bankstown TAFE College. She has written numerous senior mathematics texts and study guides over the past 25 years, including the best-selling Maths in Focus series for Mathematics and Mathematics Extension 1.