Year 11 QCE Assessment Booklet 2019

YEAR 11 GENERAL MATHEMATICS (QCE)

SUBJECT OVERVIEW General Mathematics is designed for students who want to extend their mathematical skills beyond Year 10 but whose future studies or employment pathways do not require calculus. It incorporates a practical approach that equips learners for their needs as future citizens. Students will learn to ask appropriate questions, map out pathways, reason about complex solutions, set up models and communicate in different forms. They will experience the relevance of mathematics to their daily lives, communities and cultural backgrounds. They will develop the ability to understand, analyse and take action regarding social issues in their world. COURSE OUTLINE UNIT FOCUS 1. Money, measurement and relations In Unit 1, students will develop mathematical understandings and skills to solve problems relating to the topics: Topic 1: Consumer arithmetic Topic 2: Shape and measurement Topic 3: Linear equations and their graphs. 2. Applied trigonometry, algebra, matrices and univariate data In Unit 2, students will develop mathematical understandings and

skills to solve problems relating to: Topic 1: Applications of trigonometry Topic 2: Algebra and matrices Topic 3: Univariate data analysis.

3. Bivariate data, sequences and change, and Earth geometry

In Unit 3, students will develop mathematical understandings and skills to solve problems relating to:

Topic 1: Bivariate data analysis Topic 2: Time series analysis

Topic 3: Growth and decay in sequences Topic 4: Earth geometry and time zones.

Unit 1 and 2 ASSESSMENT OVERVIEW

UNIT

TASK

ISSUE DATE

DUE DATE

1

1. Problem Solving and Modelling Task Up to 10 pages and 2000 words 4 weeks, including 3 hours of class time 2. Examination - internal examination that representatively samples subject matter from Unit 1 not assessed in the problem-solving and modelling task. 3. Examination - internal examination that representatively samples subject matter from Unit 2 4. Examination - internal examination that representatively samples subject matter from Unit 1 and 2.

Term 1 Week 3

Term 1 Week 7

Term 2 Week 3

2

Term 3 Week 2

Term 3 Week 6-8

3

To be assessed in Year 12

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