Course topics.

Try this with Specialist 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

• Implications, equivalence and proof structures (direct, cases, contradiction, contrapositive)
• Proof by mathematical induction (sums, divisibility, inequalities)
• Rational functions: partial fractions and asymptotic behaviour
• Stationary points, inflection and the second-derivative test for curve sketching
• Complex numbers: Cartesian and polar form, the Argand plane and complex regions
• De Moivre's theorem and the nth roots of complex numbers
• Factorisation over C: the conjugate root theorem and solving polynomial equations
• Vector algebra, the dot product, resolutes and the angle between vectors
• The cross product, normals to planes and vector proofs of geometric results
• Vector, parametric and Cartesian equations of lines and planes
• Inverse circular derivatives, second derivatives and implicit/related rates
• Anti-differentiation: recognising inverse-circular and log forms, and the four core techniques
• Areas, arc length of parametric curves, and solids of revolution
• Solving dy/dx = f(x), dy/dx = g(y), separation of variables and second-order by antidifferentiation
• Logistic growth, direction (slope) fields and Euler's method
• Rectilinear motion: velocity-time graphs, calculus links and the acceleration forms
• Vector functions of time: paths, meeting/colliding particles and velocity/acceleration vectors
• Expectation and variance of sums and linear combinations of random variables
• The sample mean as a random variable and the central limit behaviour
• Confidence intervals for a mean and one- and two-tailed hypothesis tests