Sue Thomson is a prolific and successful author with an interest in language development, financial literacy and making mathematics accessible to all. She is an experienced educational leader, examination writer and curriculum writer. Sue has written many successful series for Queensland, NSW, Victoria, and WA, including the Access to Prevocational Mathematics series.

Judy Binns Judy Binns is an experienced author and former head of mathematics who has taught in urban and rural schools. She has an interest in motivating students with learning difficulties, with wide experience in teaching senior practical mathematics courses. With Sue Thomson, Judy has written for senior practical mathematics in Queensland, NSW, Victoria, and WA.

Chapter Problems in each chapter help students relate the skills they are learning to a real-life problems.

Investigations explore the syllabus in more detail through group work, discovery and modelling activities and can be extended into assessment activities

Graded exercises are linked to the worked examples and are linked to problems and realistic application

Keyword activities help to build mathematical literacy.

Test your yourself sections at the end of each chapter contain revision linked to the relevant exercise set

After every 4 chapters there is a practice set of revision questions.