1 Investing money
2 Crunching numbers
3 That’s biased
4 Measurement and accuracy
Practice set 1
5 Measuring at home
6 Borrowing money
7 Analysing data
8 Creating designs
Practice set 2
9 Equations and formulas
10 Ratios and variation
11 From paper to reality
12 Running a business
Practice set 3
13 Fitting the data
14 Paying tax and super
15 Surface area and volume
16 Australia and the world
Practice set 4
Answers
Glossary and index
Sue Thomson is an experienced teacher and prolific author, well-known for writing and presenting for senior practical mathematics. Sue’s interests are in language development, financial literacy and making mathematics accessible to all.
Judy Binns was head teacher at Mulwaree High School in Goulburn. She has an interest in motivating students with learning difficulties and wide experience in teaching senior practical mathematics courses. She also co-wrote New Century Maths 11-12 Mathematics Standard 1.
Chapter Problems in each chapter help students relate the skills they are learning to a real-life problems.
Investigations explore the syllabus in more detail through group work, discovery and modelling activities and can be extended into assessment activities
Graded exercises are linked to the worked examples and are linked to problems and realistic application
Keyword activities help to build mathematical literacy.
Test your yourself sections at the end of each chapter contain revision linked to the relevant exercise set
After every 4 chapters there is a practice set of revision questions.