MATHS

YEAR 10 MATHS ADVANCED

Year 10 Maths Advanced is an elective subject at McKinnon. This further prepares students for VCE Maths Methods and reinforces their in-depth mathematical knowledge from General Year 10 Maths. It also caters to students who are above average to challenge themselves and achieve even higher. 

For our first unit, we learnt about basic sets and functions notations, how to quickly identify elements between sets, imply these knowledges to create different intervals on the number line and understanding what is the domain and range of a graph. During these first three weeks, it helps us to build a strong foundation for this subject and thrive through the course later. 

Moving on, we spend the majority of our time learning some common graphs such as circles, exponentials, hyperbolas, etc. Understanding their formula and how it produces their distinctive shapes. Furthermore, we also learn the transformations of these graphs and mathematical ways to describe these graphs. 

For our last unit in term 1, we focus on circular functions, understanding the significance of sin cos tan in circular functions. Additionally, the introduction to radian and its applications, relationships with angles, combined with the set notations and graphs we’ve learnt before, all prepare us to move on to future topics such as calculus. 

During the last week of term 1, we are fortunate enough to have some extra time after covering all the knowledge for the term. Hence, during the last double period of the term, my peers and I intricately crafted a circle with coordinates for different common angles and radians (a more natural way to describe an angle) such as 30°,45°, 60°, 90° and their sin, cos and tan values.

Overall, Maths Advanced is an engaging, fast paced, but also a competitive elective I enjoyed throughout Term 1. It is one of the few opportunities to learn maths at a higher standard before VCE. If you have great knowledge in maths and are passionate to learn more, I highly recommend that you choose it as one of your electives next year. You will for sure find a lot of joy and success in it!

Isaac Leung

Year 10 Student