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Indices

This is a website designed for both teachers and students that addresses indices from the Australian Curriculum for year 9 students. It contains material on indices and explains the index laws and their use with integer indices. There are pages for both teachers and students. The student pages contain interactive questions ...

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Scientific notation

This is a website designed for both teachers and students that addresses scientific notation from the Australian Curriculum for year 9 students. It contains material on scientific notation using index laws and multiplication, division and indices. There are pages for both teachers and students. The student pages contain ...

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Coordinate geometry

This is a website designed for both teachers and students that addresses coordinate geometry from the Australian Curriculum for year 9 students. It contains material that shows the connection between algebra and geometry through graphs of lines and curves. There are pages for both teachers and students. The student pages ...

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Sequences and series

This is a teacher resource for sequences and series consisting of a website and a PDF with identical content. It contains arithmetic and geometric sequences and arithmetic and geometric series. The limiting sum of the infinite geometric series is introduced and applications of sequences and series discussed. A brief history ...

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The calculus of trigonometric functions

This is a teacher resource for the differentiation and integration of trigonometric functions consisting of a website and a PDF with identical content. It contains explanations and examples of applications such as the solution of maximisation problems and simple harmonic motion.

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Sites2See: Space and Geometry for Primary

Selected links to online resources that can support the teaching and learning of geometry for primary-aged students.

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Linear Equations

An animated tutorial about solving simple linear equations, followed by an interactive quiz.

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MoneySmart: Fun Day Out

This learning object helps students to create a simple financial plan. Students create a plan for a class excursion within a budget of $25.00 per head. Students choose between three excursions and then select items of different values including mode of travel, food and activities to keep within their budget. The learning ...

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MoneySmart: Party time

This learning object helps students to create a simple financial plan. Students create a plan for a party within an allocated budget. Students can choose between items of different values including food, drinks, decorations, entertainment and prizes. The learning object comes with teacher and parent notes.

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MoneySmart: Money maps

This learning object helps students to explore the history of currency including bartering, the development of cash systems, and the arrival of cards and ATMs, both in Australia and around the world. It provides an interactive time line which spans the development of currency around the globe from 9000BCE to today, and ...

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Laptop wrap: Taxing times

A laptop-friendly resource with a focus on student use of spreadsheets to calculate various income and taxation problems. A debate on the merits of income sources is included.

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Solids

An interactive tutorial about types of solids and the components of simple solids.

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Syllabus bites – Cartesian coordinate system

This Bite is an introduction to the history, terminology, components and use of the Cartesian coordinate system. After completing the resource, students can proceed to six related Syllabus bites modules focusing on transformations on the Cartesian plane.

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Syllabus bites – frenzied flipping

This is the second in a series of Syllabus bites related to transformations on the Cartesian plane. This Bite covers reflection of points.

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Algebraic Fractions

An animated introduction to algebraic fractions, with a demonstration of simplifying basic algebraic fractions. An interactive quiz is included.

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The geometer's warehouse

This web-based, multimedia resource focuses on the geometry of the Stage 4 and Stage 5 Mathematics syllabus. It comprises 70 dynamic html worksheets, each exploring a different outcome in Stage 4 and Stage 5 geometry.

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Syllabus bites: Using Venn diagrams to solve problems

Worked examples and guided exercises to assist students learning to use Venn diagrams as an organiser for solving mathematical problems.

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Laptop wrap: Under the surface

In this laptop-friendly resource, students consider the difference between volume and surface area before posing practical problems. They then consider issues relating to unit conversions and similar figures.

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Renovate, Calculate!

A student resource that explores the use of mathematics in the trades. Highly interactive investigations into ratio, areas of special quadrilaterals and right-angled trigonometry.

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MoneySmart: Reaching goals: What's involved?

This unit of work students learn about financial planning through the characters Cathy and Dinuka who are Year 10 students planning to go on a holiday together at the end of Year 12. Students learn about goal setting, saving, borrowing, investing, working with compound interest, good and bad credit, depreciation and inflation.