Revision notes.

Try this with Foundation Mathematics

1. Close your notes and write the main idea in two sentences from memory.
2. Reopen the source and correct the first mistake or omission you find.
3. Add one example and one question to test whether you can apply the idea.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Notation, order of operations and rational vs irrational numbers in context
• Ratios, rates, percentage change and direct versus indirect variation
• Substituting into and transposing formulas to find an unknown value
• Solving simultaneous equations graphically and algebraically to find a break-even point
• Rounding, significant figures, leading-digit estimates, floor and ceiling values and percentage error
• Categorical, discrete and continuous data, survey design, audience and purpose
• Choosing and building tables, spreadsheets and graphs, including contemporary displays
• Mean, median and mode, and which one a data set actually calls for
• Range, percentiles, quantile intervals, cumulative frequency and standard deviation
• Interpolation, extrapolation, long-term relative frequency, outliers and statistical misrepresentation
• Loans, mortgages, credit cards, debt consolidation and comparing repayment options
• Investment returns, superannuation contributions and the effect of time on a balance
• Income tax scales, marginal rates, Medicare levy and take-home pay
• GST, invoicing, BAS, leave entitlements and depreciation of business assets
• Insurance, mobile and internet plans, hire purchase and assessing financial risk
• Names and properties of shapes and objects, plans, maps, nets and scale drawings
• Transformations, symmetry, similar triangles, enlargement and reduction
• Metric conversions, non-metric measures, rates and density
• Compound two-dimensional shapes and the surface area of solids
• Volume and capacity of compound objects, plus tolerance, accuracy and precision