Unit 2 Essential Mathematics
This unit provides students with the mathematical skills and understanding to solve problems related to representing and comparing data, percentages, rates and ratios, the mathematics of finance, and time and motion. Teachers are encouraged to apply the …
Unit 2 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMEM048
compare the suitability of different methods of data presentation in real-world contexts.
ACMEM048 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMEM057
compare back-to-back stem plots for different data-sets
ACMEM057 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMEM043
identify examples of categorical data
ACMEM043 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMEM044
identify examples of numerical data.
ACMEM044 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMEM060
compare the characteristics of the shape of histograms using symmetry, skewness and bimodality.
ACMEM060 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMEM082
compare the time taken to travel a specific distance with various modes of transport
ACMEM082 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMEM045
display categorical data in tables and column graphs
ACMEM045 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMEM074
use rates to make comparisons
ACMEM074 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMEM046
display numerical data as frequency distributions, dot plots, stem and leaf plots, and histograms
ACMEM046 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMEM070
use ratio to describe simple scales.
ACMEM070 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMEM076
use units of time, conversions between units, fractional, digital and decimal representations
ACMEM076 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMEM080
use several timetables and electronic technologies to plan the most time-efficient routes
ACMEM080 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMEM075
use rates to determine costs; for example, calculating the cost of a tradesman using rates per hour, call-out fees.
ACMEM075 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMEM083
use scales to find distances, such as on maps; for example, road maps, street maps, bushwalking maps, online maps and cadastral maps
ACMEM083 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMEM054
use informal ways of describing spread, such as spread out/dispersed, tightly packed, clusters, gaps, more/less dense regions, outliers
ACMEM054 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMEM084
optimise distances through trial-and-error and systematic methods; for example, shortest path, routes to visit all towns, and routes to use all roads.
ACMEM084 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Essential Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum