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TOPIC LIST – DP MATHEMATICS

NB: These topics are meant to provide you with some starting point in case you want to get a
head start in any of the Math courses (Standard level or Higher level) during the summer
break.

Topic Content

• Approximation: decimal places, significant figures


• Upper and lower bounds of rounded numbers
• Percentage errors
• Estimation
• Operations with numbers in standard form
• Arithmetic sequence & series
• Use of sigma notation for sums of arithmetic sequences
• Applications of arithmetic sequence & series
Number & Algebra
• Geometric sequence & series
• Use of sigma notation for sums of Geometric sequences
• Applications of Geometric sequence & series
• Financial applications of geometric sequences and series:
compound interest, and annual depreciation
• Laws of exponents with integer exponents
• Introduction to logarithms with base 10 and e
• Numerical evaluation of logarithms using technology

• Different forms of the equation of a straight line


• Gradient and intercepts
• Parallel and perpendicular lines
• Concept of a function: domain, range, and graph of functions
• The concept of a function as a mathematical model
• Inverse function as a reflection in the y = x
Functions • Creating a sketch from information given or a context, including
transferring a graph from screen to paper
• Using technology to graph functions including their sums and
differences
• Determine key features of graphs
• Finding the point of intersection of two curves or lines using
technology
• The distance between two points in three-dimensional space,
and their midpoint
• Volume and surface area of three-dimensional solids including
right-pyramid, right cone, sphere, hemisphere, and combinations
of these solids
• The size of an angle between two intersecting lines or between a
line and a plane
Geometry & • Use of trig ratios find the side and angles of right-angle triangles
Trigonometry
• Sine rule
• Cosine rule
• Area of non-right-angled triangle
• Applications of right and non-right-angled trigonometry,
including Pythagoras theorem
• Angles of elevation and depression
• Construction of labelled diagrams from written statements

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