There have been key changes to the new syllabus including:

A new approach to assessment, including a final external examination in Year 12 for General Mathematics, Mathematical Methods, Specialist Mathematics that will count for 50% of a student's course assessment

A renewed focus on problem solving, mathematical modelling and digital technology

Stronger monitoring of school-based assessment, with QCAA approval required for summative tasks in Units 3 and 4

Change of approach in statistics: moving closer to a practical study based on sampling rather than a theoretical study

Removal of school choice of topics: all topics in the syllabus must be learned.

What are Nelson Secondary doing to address these changes?:

By supporting you with additional free resources and professional development to make the change to the new senior mathematics syllabus seamless. This includes:

• NelsonNet free resources*
• Page proofs
• Sample chapters 
• Free workshops

*Complimentary access to NelsonNet is available to teachers who use the accompanying student book as a core resource in their classroom. Contact your education consultant for conditions.

Key Features of the QMaths series

• Each chapter opens with a list of chapter contents and syllabus subject matter
• Investigations explore the syllabus in more detail through group work and modelling activities
• Technology sections promote ICT in the classroom, using spreadsheets, graphics, calculators and the Internet
• Each chapter ends with a Chapter summary and a Chapter review exercise that is linked back to the worked examples
• Practice examinations after a sequence of chapters cover the content of those chapters
• Graded exercises are linked back to the worked examples, featuring Concepts, Techniques and Problem-Solving sections and realistic applications
• Each chapter in the Essential Mathematics books also include a Chapter Problem (solved at the end of the chapter), a What we will do in this chapter? List of outcomes, and a How are we going to use this? List of applications.

NelsonNet Teacher resources

• Worked solutions to all questions in the book*
• Topic tests*
• Chapter PDFs of the book
• Teaching programs
• ExamView software and questionbank*

NelsonNet Student resources

• Worksheets, skillsheets and puzzle sheets
• Video tutorials made by 'flipped classroom' teachers
• Prior learning exercises*
• Instructions from the TI-Nspire CX calculator
• ExamView chapter quizzes*

*General Mathematics, Mathematical Methods, and Specialist Mathematics only.