Rationale
Learning mathematics creates opportunities for and enriches the lives of all Australians. The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics provides students with essential mathematical skills and knowledge in number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics and probability.Aims
The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics aims to ensure that students:are confident, creative users and communicators of mathematics, able to investigate, represent and interpret situations in their personal and work lives and as active citizens.
Key ideas
In Mathematics, the key ideas are the proficiency strands of understanding, fluency, problem-solving and reasoning. The proficiency strands describe the actions in which students can engage when learning and using the content.Structure
The Australian Curriculum: Mathematics is organised around the interaction of three content strands and four proficiency strands.The content strands are number and algebra, measurement and geometry, and statistics and probability. They describe what is to be taught and learnt.
PDF documents
Resources and support materials for the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics are available as PDF documents.Mathematics: Sequence of content
Mathematics: Sequence of achievement
Glossary
Year 10A
Year 10A Level Description
The 10A content descriptions are optional and are intended for students who require additional content to enrich and extend their mathematical study whilst completing the common Year 10 curriculum. It is not anticipated that all students will attempt the 10A content, but doing so would be advantageous for those intending to pursue Mathematical Methods (Course C) or Specialist Mathematics (Course D) in the senior secondary years. A selection of topics from the 10A curriculum can be completed according to the needs and interests of students.
Year 10A Content Descriptions
Using units of measurement
Solve problems involving surface area and volume of right pyramids, right cones, spheres and related composite solids
(ACMMG271 - Scootle
)
Pythagoras and trigonometry
Establish the sine, cosine and area rules for any triangle and solve related problems
(ACMMG273 - Scootle
)
Use the unit circle to define trigonometric functions, and graph them with and without the use of digital technologies
(ACMMG274 - Scootle
)
Solve simple trigonometric equations
(ACMMG275 - Scootle
)
Apply Pythagoras’ Theorem and trigonometry to solving three-dimensional problems in right-angled triangles
(ACMMG276 - Scootle
)
Chance
Investigate reports of studies in digital media and elsewhere for information on their planning and implementation
(ACMSP277 - Scootle
)
Data representation and interpretation
Calculate and interpret the mean and standard deviation of data and use these to compare data sets
(ACMSP278 - Scootle
)
Use information technologies to investigate bivariate numerical data sets. Where appropriate use a straight line to describe the relationship allowing for variation
(ACMSP279 - Scootle
)
Year 10A Achievement Standards
There are no achievement standards for Year 10A in the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. Please refer to the Year 10 Achievement Standards.