Course information
Mathematical Applications focuses on extending the mathematical skills and knowledge of students in both familiar and new contexts. Some of these contexts include financial modelling, matrices, network analysis, route and project planning, decision making, and discrete growth and decay. Students who received B or C in Australian Curriculum Year 10 would be recommended to do this course.
Post-school pathways
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Mathematical Applications is designed to provide skills for students wishing to enter the workforce, university or further training in areas that require a sound level of numeracy and mathematical understanding. Such areas could include nursing, childcare and administration.
Workload expectation
Mathematical Applications requires commitment and a positive work ethic to complete the required tasks in class and a suitable homework or study regime to consolidate learning. Take home assignments and a suitable level of study before tests and examinations are also required to be completed outside of class hours.
Course pattern
Available as a Minor or Major
Suggested Minor course
Semester | Unit |
|---|---|
1 | Unit 1: Mathematical Applications |
2 | Unit 2: Mathematical Applications |
Suggested Major course
Semester | Unit |
|---|---|
1 | Unit 1: Mathematical Applications |
2 | Unit 2: Mathematical Applications |
3 | Unit 3: Mathematical Applications |
4 | Unit 4: Mathematical Applications |
Unit descriptions
Unit 1: Mathematical Applications
Consumer Arithmetic, Algebra and Matrices, and Shape and Measurement.
Unit 2: Mathematical Applications
Univariate Data and the Statistical Investigation Process, Linear Equations and their Graphs, and Applications of Trigonometry.
Unit 3: Mathematical Applications
Bivariate Data Analysis, Growth and Decay in Sequences and Graphs and Networks.
Unit 4: Mathematical Applications
Time series analysis, Loans, Investments and Annuities and Networks and Decision Matrices.