Unit 1 General Mathematics
This unit has three topics: ‘Consumer arithmetic’, ‘Algebra and matrices’, and ‘Shape and measurement’. ‘Consumer arithmetic’ reviews the concepts of rate and percentage change in the context of earning and managing money, and provides a fertile ground …
Unit 1 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMGM005
compare prices and values using the unit cost method
ACMGM005 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMGM008
calculate the dividend paid on a portfolio of shares, given the percentage dividend or dividend paid per share, for each share; and compare share values by calculating a price-to-earnings ratio.
ACMGM008 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMGM022
use the scale factor for two similar figures to solve linear scaling problems
ACMGM022 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMGM013
use matrices for storing and displaying information that can be presented in rows and columns; for example, databases, links in social or road networks
ACMGM013 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMGM017
review Pythagoras’ Theorem and use it to solve practical problems in two dimensions and for simple applications in three dimensions.
ACMGM017 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMGM024
obtain a scale factor and use it to solve scaling problems involving the calculation of the areas of similar figures
ACMGM024 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMGM025
obtain a scale factor and use it to solve scaling problems involving the calculation of surface areas and volumes of similar solids.
ACMGM025 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMGM007
use currency exchange rates to determine the cost in Australian dollars of purchasing a given amount of a foreign currency, such as US$1500, or the value of a given amount of foreign currency when converted to Australian dollars, such as the value of …
ACMGM007 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMGM012
use a spreadsheet or an equivalent technology to construct a table of values from a formula, including two-by-two tables for formulas with two variable quantities; for example, a table displaying the body mass index (BMI) of people of different weights …
ACMGM012 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMGM009
use a spreadsheet to display examples of the above computations when multiple or repeated computations are required; for example, preparing a wage-sheet displaying the weekly earnings of workers in a fast food store where hours of employment and hourly …
ACMGM009 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMGM016
use matrices, including matrix products and powers of matrices, to model and solve problems; for example, costing or pricing problems, squaring a matrix to determine the number of ways pairs of people in a communication network can communicate with each …
ACMGM016 | Content Descriptions | Unit 1 | General Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum