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JAMES RUSE AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL
MATHEMATICS PROGRAMME YEAR 9 – 2011

LIST OF TOPICS

TOPIC 1 - ALGEBRA REVISION
TOPIC 2 - PRODUCTS and FACTORS
TOPIC 3 - IRRATIONAL NUMBERS and SURDS
TOPIC 4 - GEOMETRY REVISION and INTERCEPTS
TOPIC 5 - STATISTICS
TOPIC 6 - GEOMETRY OF THE CIRCLE
TOPIC 7 - INDICES
TOPIC 8 - SUFFICIENCY CONDITIONS for QUADRILATERALS
TOPIC 9 - CO-ORDINATE GEOMETRY and REGIONS
TOPIC 10 - SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS
TOPIC 11 - SOLUTION of QUADRATIC EQUATIONS and MAX/MIN PROBLEMS
TOPIC 12 - LINEAR PROGRAMMING
TOPIC 13 - POLYNOMIALS
TOPIC 14 - TRIGONOMETRY
TOPIC 15 - PROBABILITY
TOPIC 16 - FUNCTIONS, FUNCTION NOTATION and GRAPHS

JAMES RUSE AGRICULTURAL HIGH SCHOOL
MATHEMATICS PROGRAMME YEAR 9

OBJECTIVES

The main purpose of the Year 9 course is to consolidate the pupils' algebraic and geometric skills, to introduce them to interest areas applying these and to develop problem solving strategies.

PRINCIPLES

In Year 9 it is intended that:

i) consolidation and development of algebraic and geometric skills should occur,

ii) application of techniques to probability should occur,

iii) the concept of mathematical proof be further developed in both geometry and co-ordinate geometry.

iv) the development of problem solving skills especially in the areas of mensuration and trigonometry, in geometry, in the use of graphs and in solving equations.

OUTCOMES

Students should, by the end of Year 9,

i) be competent in the algebraic techniques required in the Years 11, 12 courses,

ii) be competent in geometrical proofs to the standard specified in the Year 11-3 unit course,

iii) be motivated for further work in mathematics through their encounter with interest areas and problem solving techniques.

iv) have improved their strategies in solving of a problem in which areas of required knowledge are unspecified.

PROBLEM SOLVING:

| |Problem solving should be integrated into the