Course topics.

Try this with Mathematical Methods

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Rates of change, first principles and derivatives of power functions
• The chain, product and quotient rules
• Differentiating e^x and e^f(x) and exponential models
• Derivatives of sine, cosine and tangent and periodic models
• Second derivatives, concavity, stationary points and points of inflection
• Discrete probability distributions, expected value and standard deviation
• Bernoulli random variables and their mean and standard deviation
• The binomial distribution: conditions, probabilities, mean and standard deviation
• Indefinite integrals, integration rules and the constant of integration
• Upper and lower rectangle sums and the definite integral as area
• The fundamental theorem of calculus and exact areas
• Integrating rates of change and motion problems
• Natural logarithms, logarithm laws and solving exponential equations
• The graph of y = ln(x) and its transformations
• Differentiating and integrating logarithmic functions
• Probability density functions, mean and standard deviation of continuous random variables
• The normal distribution, z-scores and inverse-normal calculations
• Sampling distributions of the sample sum and sample mean and the central limit theorem
• Confidence intervals for a population mean
• Sample proportions and confidence intervals for a population proportion