2025 Course Outline: GENERAL MATHS Units 1 & 2
The outline below is indicative only and is subject to change.
Week Impacted by … Content To Cover Exercises to Complete
Term 1
UNIT 1
PERCENTAGES AND RATIOS
Yr 7 & 12 classes start Review of holiday homework Exercise 10A Revision
Wed 29 Jan Chapter 1 Review
Week 1
27 Jan
All other students Test
Thur 30 Jan
Assessment – Percentages and Ratios
SEQUENCES AND FINANCE
Number Patterns 3A-D
Week 2 Writing recurrence relations in symbolic form
03 Feb Arithmetic Sequences and Recursion
Finance applications using arithmetic sequences and 3E-H
recurrence relations
Week 3 Geometric Sequences and Recursion
10 Feb Finance applications using geometric sequences and
recurrence relations
Finding the term n in a sequence 3I
Modelling Geometric Growth and Decay
Week 4
17 Feb Finance Solver Finance Solver activities
Revision Chapter Review
Assessment – Sequences and Finance
MATRICES
Swimming Carnival Basics of Matrix 4A-D
Week 5
Monday 24 Feb Adding and Subtracting matrices
24 Feb
Scalar Multiplication
Matrix Multiplication
Parent Teacher Inverse Matrices and Solving Simultaneous 4E-H
Interviews Equations
Thursday 06 March Using matrices to model road and communication
Week 6 networks
03 March Introduction to transition matrices
Using recursion to answer questions that require
multiple applications of a transition matrix
Labour day Applications of matrices 4I
Week 7
Mon 10 March
10 March
Revision Chapter Review
Assessment – Matrices
MEASUREMENT
Pythagoras’ Theorem 10B-D
Week 8
Perimeter and Area (Possibly across 2 lessons)
17 March
Length of an Arc and Area of a Sector
Cross Country Volume (Possibly across 2 lessons) 10F-G
Week 9
Wed 26 March Volume of a pyramid
24 March
Surface Area
Term break HOLIDAY
Term 2
Measurement Cont.
Easter Monday Similar Figures 10H-J
Mon 21 April Similar Triangles
Similar Solids
Week 1 ANZAC Assembly
21 April Thur 24 Period 4
ANZAC Day
Fri 25 April
Week 2 Revision Chapter Review
28 April
Assessment - Measurement
Univariate Data
Classifying and displaying categorical data 2A-2D
Interpreting and describing frequency tables and bar
Week 3 charts
05 May Displaying and describing numerical data
Characteristics of distributions, dot plots and stem
plots
Potential Curriculum Measures of Centre 2E-H
planning day Measures of Spread
Week 4
Thur 8 May Percentages of data lying within multiple standard
12 May
deviations of the mean
Box plots
Athletics Carnival Comparing the distribution of numerical variables 2I
Week 5 Tue 13 May across groups
19 May
Chapter Review Revision and Test
Assessment – Univariate Data
UNIT 2
Week 6 Exam Revision
26 May
Week 7 Exam Revision
02 June
Week 8 Kings Birthday Year 10 & 11 Examinations
09 June Mon 9 June
Week 9 GAT Year 10 & 11 Examinations
16 June Tue 17 June
Linear Relations
Substitution and table of values 5A-D
Week 10 Solving linear equations and developing formulas
23 June Setting up and solving an equation in two unknowns
Drawing straight line graphs
Week 11 Equations of straight lines 5E-G
30 June Finding the equation of a straight line
Linear Modelling
Semester Holiday
break
Term 3
LINEAR RELATIONS CONT.
Solving simultaneous equations 5H-J
Week 1 Practical applications of simultaneous equations
21 July Piece-wise linear graphs
1:1 Year 11 into 12 Revision Chapter Review
subject selections
Week 2 Friday 1 Aug Trigonometry basics 11A-C
28 July Finding an unknown side
Finding an angle in a right-angle triangle
Assessment – Linear Relations
TRIGONOMETRY
Central Australia Tour Sine rule 11G-I
All week Cosine rule
Week 3 Area of a triangle
04 Aug Curriculum Planning
Day
Fri 8 Aug
Ski Camp Tour Bearings and navigation 11E-F
Week 4 Wednesday – Friday Angles of elevation and depression
11 Aug
Revision Chapter Review
Assessment - Trigonometry
Bivariate Data
Parent Teacher Scatterplots 7A-C
Week 5 Interview How to interpret a scatterplot
18 Aug Wed 20 Aug Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient (r)
Catch-Up/Extension Lesson
Fitting linear models to the data 7D-E
Interpreting and predicting from a linear model
Week 6
25 Aug
Revision Chapter review
Test
Week 7 Investigation Assessment Task
01 Sept
Week 8 Investigation Assessment Task
08 Sept
Graphs and Networks
What is a graph? 8A-C
Week 9 Isomorphic, connected graphs and adjacency
15 Sept matrices
Planar graphs and Euler’s Formula
Space Camp Walks, trails, paths, circuits and cycles 8D-F
ALL WEEK Eularian trails and circuits
Hamiltonian paths and cycles
Term break
Term 4
Networks Cont’
Weighted graphs, networks and the shortest path 8G-H
Week 1
Minimum spanning trees and greedy algorithm
06 Oct
Week 2 Revision Chapter Review
13 Oct
Assessment – Graphs and Networks
Variation
Direct variation 9A-D
Week 3 Inverse variation
20 Oct Data transformations
Logarithms
Potential Curriculum Further Modelling of non-linear data 9E
Week 4 Planning Day Revision Chapter Review
27 Oct Tue 28 Oct
Variation test (quiz) Test
Week 5 Melbourne Cup Exam revision
03 Nov Tue 02 Nov
Week 6 Year 11 Examinations
10 Nov
Week 7 Year 10/11 Examinations
17 Nov
Week 8 Edge
24 Nov
Week 9
01 Dec
