Maths Midterms Syllabus
Maths Midterms Syllabus
Standard form
1. Types of number 1. Use the standard form A × 10n where n is
(Identify and use: • natural numbers • a positive or negative integer and 1 ⩽ A <
integers (positive, zero and negative) • 10.
prime numbers • square numbers • cube 2. Convert numbers into and out of standard
numbers • common factors • common form.
multiples • rational and irrational 3. Calculate with values in standard form.
numbers • reciprocals.) 9. Estimation
2. Sets 1. Round values to a specified degree of
Understand and use set language, accuracy.
notation and Venn diagrams to describe 2. Make estimates for calculations involving
sets. numbers, quantities and measurements.
3. Powers and roots 3. Round answers to a reasonable degree of
Calculate with the following: • squares • accuracy in the context of a given
square roots • cubes • cube roots • other problem
powers and roots of numbers. 10. Limits of accuracy
4. Fractions, decimals and percentages 1. Give upper and lower bounds for data
1. Use the language and notation of the rounded to a specified accuracy.
following in appropriate contexts: • 2. Find upper and lower bounds of the
proper fractions • improper fractions • results of calculations which have used
mixed numbers • decimals • data rounded to a specified accuracy
percentages. 11. Ratio and proportion
2. Recognise equivalence and convert 1. Understand and use ratio and proportion
between these forms. to:
2 . Expand products of algebraic expressions. 4 List inequalities that define a given region
4. Factorise expressions of the form: 1 Use and interpret graphs in practical situations
including travel graphs and conversion graphs.
• ax + bx + kay + kby
2 Draw graphs from given data.
•a x −b y
2 2 2 2
1. Calculate unknown angles and give simple • equal chords are equidistant from the centre
explanations
• the perpendicular bisector of a chord passes 1
area of triangle = 2 𝑎𝑏 sin (𝐶)
through the centre
Pythagoras’ theorem and trigonometry in 3D
• tangents from an external point are equal in
length Carry out calculations and solve problems in
three dimensions using Pythagoras’ theorem and
4.Trigonometry trigonometry, including calculating the angle
1. Pythagoras’ theorem between a line and a plane.
1 sin x and cos x for x = 0°, 30°, 45°, 60° and 90°.
Vectors in two dimensions
2 tan x for x = 0°, 30°, 45° and 60°.
1 Describe a translation using a vector
Trigonometric functions represented
1 Recognise, sketch and interpret the following
graphs for 0° ⩽ x ⩽ 360°:
• y = sinx
2 Add and subtract vectors.
• y = cos x
3 Multiply a vector by a scalar.
• y = tanx.
2 Magnitude of a vector
2 Solve trigonometric equations involving sin x,
cos x or tan x, for 0° ⩽ x ⩽ 360°. Calculate the magnitude of a vector
Non-right-angled triangles as √𝑥 2 + 𝑦 2
3 Use the sum and difference of two or more Draw and interpret:
vectors to express given vectors in terms of two
(a) bar charts
coplanar vectors.
(b) pie charts
(c) pictograms
4 Use vectors to reason and to solve geometric
problems. (d) stem-and-leaf diagrams
• show that 3 points are collinear 1 Draw and interpret scatter diagrams.
• solve vector problems involving ratio and 2 Understand what is meant by positive,
similarity.) negative and zero correlation.
2 Calculate an estimate of the mean for 3 Calculate the probability of a single event.
grouped discrete or grouped continuous data. 4 Understand that the probability of an event not
3 Identify the modal class from a grouped occurring = 1 – the probability of the event
frequency distribution occurring
Relative and expected frequencies
• Venn diagrams
• tree diagrams
Conditional probability