Course topics.

Try this with Foundation Mathematics

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

• 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