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
Real numbers
Define rational and irrational numbers and perform operations with surds and fractional indices
(ACMNA264 - Scootle
)
Use the definition of a logarithm to establish and apply the laws of logarithms
(ACMNA265 - Scootle
)
Patterns and algebra
Investigate the concept of a polynomial and apply the factor and remainder theorems to solve problems
(ACMNA266 - Scootle
)
Linear and non-linear relationships
Solve simple exponential equations
(ACMNA270 - Scootle
)
Describe, interpret and sketch parabolas, hyperbolas, circles and exponential functions and their transformations
(ACMNA267 - Scootle
)
Apply understanding of polynomials to sketch a range of curves and describe the features of these curves from their equation
(ACMNA268 - Scootle
)
Factorise monic and non-monic quadratic expressions and solve a wide range of quadratic equations derived from a variety of contexts
(ACMNA269 - 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.