Rationale Specialist Mathematics
Rationale Mathematics is the study of order, relation and pattern. From its origins in counting and measuring it has evolved in highly sophisticated and elegant ways to become the language now used to describe much of the modern world. Statistics is concerned …
Rationale | Specialist Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Links to Foundation to Year 10 Specialist Mathematics
For all content areas of Specialist Mathematics, the proficiency strands of the F–10 curriculum are still very much applicable and should be inherent in students’ learning of the subject. The strands of Understanding, Fluency, Problem solving and Reasoning …
Links to Foundation to Year 10 | Specialist Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
Representation of General capabilities Specialist Mathematics
The seven general capabilities of Literacy, Numeracy, Information and Communication technology (ICT) capability, Critical and creative thinking, Personal and social capability, Ethical understanding, and Intercultural understanding are identified where …
Representation of General capabilities | Specialist Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMSM050
model periodic motion using sine and cosine functions and understand the relevance of the period and amplitude of these functions in the model.
ACMSM050 | Content Descriptions | Unit 2 | Specialist Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMSM131
examine slope (direction or gradient) fields of a first order differential equation
ACMSM131 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4 | Specialist Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMSM127
use numerical integration using technology \(f\left(t\right)=\lambda e^{-\lambda t}\) for \(t\geq0\) of the exponential random variable with parameter \(\lambda>0,\), and use the exponential random variables and associated probabilities and quantiles …
ACMSM127 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4 | Specialist Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum
ACMSM130
solve simple first-order differential equations of the form \(\frac{dy}{dx}=f(x)\), differential equations of the form \(\frac{dy}{dx}=g\left(y\right)\) and, in general, differential equations of the form \(\frac{dy}{dx}=f\left(x\right)g\left(y\right)\) …
ACMSM130 | Content Descriptions | Unit 4 | Specialist Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum