1. Transition into Year 10/10A Mathematics 2019
Ms Woolley
Head of Mathematics

2. Discussion Points Year 9 and 10 Curriculum Content
Success in Senior School Maths: Independence and Support
Year 10 Assessment
Year 11 and 12 Pathways
How to be Year 10 ready

3. Year 9 into 10 Curriculum Year 9 Pythagoras and Trigonometry
- right-angled triangles
- finding side lengths and angles
Geometry
- similar triangles
Measurement
- surface area and volume
Probability
- Venn diagrams
- Tree diagrams
Year 10
Pythagoras and Trigonometry
- applications in 3D and non-right-angled triangles
- where do sine, cosine values come from?
Geometry
- applications of similarity and circle geometry
Measurement
- surface area and volume: cones, pyramids and spheres
Probability
- Tree diagrams where probabilities not all equal
- Conditional probability (extra information)

4. Year 9 into 10 Curriculum Year 9 Year 10 Linear Algebra Linear Algebra
- Sketching/finding equation of straight lines
- Parallel and perpendicular lines
- Simultaneous equations
Quadratic Equations
- Factorising techniques
- Null factor law
Quadratic Graphs
- Turning point form and transformations
- Factorising to find intercepts and turning point
Year 10
Linear Algebra
- More techniques for simultaneous equations
Quadratic Equations
- 2 more factorising techniques
- A formula that solves all quadratic equations
Quadratic Graphs
- Turning point form and transformations
- A rule for the turning point
- Maximum / minimum applications

5. Year 9 into 10 Curriculum Year 9 Finance and Index laws
- Compound interest
- Powers including negative powers
Year 10
Finance and Index laws (Exponential equations)
- Equations and graphs
- Applications: radioactivity, compound interest
Statistics
- mean, median, mode
- Box plots
- line of best fit, used to make predictions

6. Success in Year 10 Mathematics
Use your course outline and work schedules to manage your workload
Be prepared:
- Summary/notes book separate to your work book
As well as class notes update summary book with your own items,
annotate your notes, add errors and reminders, have a calculator
section, add things you learn from questions, tasks etc.
- Bring your CAS calculator to every lesson - some questions will only
be solvable on CAS

7. Success in Year 10 Mathematics
Use the online materials: schoolbox learning site, HOTMaths site – quizzes, video examples, extra worksheets
Learning site
Video example
Access your teacher, access maths help – be proactive
Ask questions, aim to understand not to remember!
Homework - stay up to date. It is crucial to explore the problem solving style questions not just the skill-based questions.

8. Review, Practise, Follow Up
Review class notes, read examples related to set work
Practise key skills including number skills – do not reach for the calculator all the time
Perfect practice – set out your working correctly, draw and label your graphs accurately, answer the question
Practise test technique by re-reading word problems before you attempt the problem and after you think you have answered it
Follow up on your work – ask for help on difficulties, correct any errors made, complete extra questions if you are not feeling confident, note down difficulties to pay extra attention to for test or exam revision

9. Assessment for each topic
A progress quiz – mid-topic (10%)
- value the feedback, record errors, a chance to correct your thinking and address difficulties
An assignment (15%)
- focus on word problems, extended response style, some purely a mathematical focus
A test (75%)
- technology free component (short answer questions)
- technology active component (CAS and summary book, multiple choice and extended
response questions)

10. Maths Pathways

11. VCE General / Further Maths
All technology active
Topics:
- Statistics
- Financial Maths
- Two of: Matrices
Networks
Geometry and Trigonometry
Graphs and Relations
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12. Sample Further Maths Questions
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13. VCE Maths Methods / IB SL
Technology Free and Technology Active
IB has an investigation and 2 Exams
Methods has 3 SACs (School assessed coursework) and 2 Exams
Continuation of topics from Year 9 and 10
- linear and quadratics, cubics,
trigonometric functions, probability (bell curve
and sampling), calculus, exponentials, other
graph types and more
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14. Sample Methods / IB SL Questions
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15. Specialist Mathematics / IB HL
Technology Free and Technology Active
IB has an investigation and 3 Exams
Specialist Maths has 3 SACs (School Assessed Coursework) and 2 Exams
A range of extra topics including:
- complex numbers – square roots of negative numbers
- volumes of solids of revolution
- forces and kinematics
- hypothesis testing
- vector calculus
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16. Sample Specialist / IB HL Questions
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17. How to be Year 10 ready Can you: - Sketch a straight line graph
- Find the equation of a straight line
- Simplify algebra and solve linear equations
- Apply SOHCAHTOA and Pythagoras’ theorem
- Identify similar triangles and use the scale factor
- Factorise with a common factor, DOPS, trinomials
- Solve a quadratic equation using the null factor law
- Sketch a quadratic graph using transformations
- Work with a Venn diagram
- Apply area formulae for composite shapes, surface area and prism volume

18. Year 10 Mathematics 2019
This will be posted to Year 10 Maths pages on STL Link with the sample checklist
Course outline for 2019 will also appear there
Questions?