Summer maths: ready for Year 10
Week 1 Number
- Scientific notation, and three names for one number
- Order of operations, integers, and a sensible estimate
- Reciprocals, and why decimal rules are fraction rules
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Week 2 Percentages, ratios and money
- Percentages as multipliers, and working backwards
- Ratios you can scale, and rates that carry units
- Mark-ups, discounts, GST and interest
Check week 2
Week 3 Algebra
- Expressions, equations, and the inequality that flips
- Straight lines: what m and c actually do
- Powers of two, unit fractions, and roots on the line
Check week 3
Week 4 Measurement
- Units, prefixes, and how precise an answer can be
- Circles, and every area formula as a rectangle
- Pythagoras: the squares are actual squares
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Week 5 Shape, speed and graphs
- Circles, parallel lines, and moving shapes about
- Speed, distance, time, and the 2.30 trap
- Choosing a graph, and the line of best fit
Check week 5
Week 6 Data and chance
- Statistical questions, and the five-point summary
- Reading data critically, and claiming only what you can
- Sample spaces, experiments, and the Law of Large Numbers
- Joint events, and why you cannot just add probabilities