1 What's the score?
2 Buying and selling
3 Metres, litres and grams
4 Show me the graph
5 What's my share?
6 It's about time
7 Creating designs
8 It's better than average
9 From paper to reality
10 Healthy figures
11 On the surface
12 Going places
13 Comparing data
14 Turn up the volume
15 Interesting numbers
16 So you've got a right angle
17 Fitting the data
Glossary and index
Sue Thomson is an experienced teacher and prolific author, well-known for writing and presenting for senior practical mathematics. Sue’s interests are in language development, financial literacy and making mathematics accessible to all.
Judy Binns is a Mathematics Coordinator and experienced author. She has an interest in motivating students with learning difficulties, and has taught senior applied mathematics courses.
Each chapter begins with a ‘Chapter problem’, chapter table of contents, chapter outcomes, and a ‘How are we ever going to use this?’ list of applications.
Graded exercises are linked to worked examples and include problem-solving and realistic applications throughout the text.
‘Investigations’ and ‘practical activities’ explore the syllabus in more detail, through group work, discovery and modelling tasks.
A ‘language activity’ focuses on the mathematical language and terminology learned in the chapter.
‘Solution to the chapter problem’ is included at the end of the chapter.
Bonus extension chapters are included for students who wish to advance to Further Mathematics in Year 12, covering compound interest, trigonometry and correlation.