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GENERAL

MATHEMATICS

General Mathematics is designed for students who want Students develop their ability to do the following:
to extend their mathematical skills beyond Year 10
but whose future studies or employment pathways • Investigate patterns, order, generality and
do not require calculus. It incorporates a practical uncertainty
approach that equips learners for their needs as • Explore problems and solve through observation,
future citizens. reflection and logical reasoning
• Use critical and creative thinking
Students in Year 11 and 12 study: • Use a concise system of communication with
written, symbolic, spoken and visual components
• Money, measurement and relation • Take initiative and promote curiosity in an
• Applied trigonometry, algebra, matrices and increasingly complex and data-driven world
univariate data
• The use of matrices and networks to model and solve
authentic problems
• Bivariate data, sequences and change, and Earth
geometry
• Investing and networking
Career Opportunities:

• Business, e.g., trades, nursing, tourism and
hospitality
• Commerce, e.g., administrative roles
• Education
• Finance
• IT
• Social science
• The creative industries

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