Sue Garner is Head of VCE Mathematics at Ballarat Grammar School, where she has taught for over 20 years. She has been a VCAA examination assessor for Mathematical Methods and Specialist Mathematics, has written a range of texts for both courses, and regularly presents teacher workshops on CAS technology.

Greg Neal is the Mathematics Learning Area Leader at Ballarat High School and has been teaching for over 30 years. He has written a range of texts for VCE Mathematics, has been a VCAA examination assessor and is extremely proficient with CAS technology.

George Dimitriadis teaches at Montmorency Secondary College and has been teaching for over 30 years. He has written for Heinemann Maths Zone 7–10 and Pearson Mathematics 7–10.

Stephen Swift is the lead author of Nelson Think Maths 7–10 and Nelson Senior Maths for the Australian Curriculum: Mathematical Methods and Specialist Mathematics. He has taught all levels of mathematics in several states.

'Exam hack' provides insider advice to help students overcome common errors, achieve learning success and gain valuable marks

‘Using CAS’ contains instructions for the TI-NSpire and ClassPad calculators

Standard textbook exercises are replaced by ‘Exam prep’ and ‘Exam practice’

‘Exam practice’ contains graded VCE and VCE-style questions – multiple-choice and written response

‘Chapter solutions’ at the end of each chapter include worked solutions to selected VCE questions with examiners’ comments and student performance percentages from the VCAA examination reports

‘Worked solutions’ to all questions can be downloaded by teachers on NelsonNet.