General Mathematics VCE Units 3&4 Ed 2

This new edition of the leading VCE Mathematics series combines authoritative coverage of the new Study Design with a proven teaching and learning formula and innovative digital resources to support ALL students to achieve VCE success. Our highly respected author team now draws on the expertise of additional experienced educators who bring their own classroom experience to interpret the new Study Design and provide logical topic development and rigorous questions that most effectively build student skills. Enhanced digital features including an Exam Generator, student workspaces and self-assessment tools, videos for all worked examples, auto-marked quizzes, Desmos interactives, and a range of downloadable activities, will give students the best assessment preparation available.

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What’s new?
Providing the most reliable interpretation and delivery of the new Study Design, and now with additional, highly experienced educators on the author team, the proven teaching and learning formula of the second edition of this series is enhanced by a number of new features:

Authoritative curriculum coverage of algorithms and pseudocode, including appendix support of the basic principles, and guides to the use of Python and the programming capabilities of CAS calculators for writing and implementing algorithms.
A revised structure for General Mathematics Units 1&2, combined with Now Try This questions after worked examples to give students immediate practice, plus carefully graded exercises and explicitly labelled exam-style questions.
More revision opportunities with dedicated revision chapters on groups of topics and a final chapter that revises the textbook.
Practice opportunities for the Mathematical Investigation in Units 1&2 with the inclusion of several investigations in the review chapters of each book and additional investigations in the Online Teaching Suite.
Tools for students to work independently and keep track of their progress such as Learning Intentions and Success Criteria, combined with access to fully worked solutions when enabled by the teacher.
Access to new digital resources for the classroom and at home with workspaces and self-assessment tools available for all exercise questions, videos for all worked examples, revised and augmented auto-marked quizzes and access to auto-marked, multiple-choice practice exams created by the teacher.
A new Exam Generator for teachers that allows them to create custom practice exams using previous VCAA questions plus additional VCAA-style questions with mark allocation and solutions.
Features you love
The second edition also retains all the features that have led to VCE success, including:
Creative and rigorous questions to help students understand concepts and develop mathematical skills, apply maths in various contexts and prepare for exams.
Videos of worked examples and worked solutions for every question in each course to support independently learning, build understanding and consolidate skills.
Calculator activities, examples and guides for calculators in all courses, and technology-free questions in the Methods and Specialist courses.
The powerful Learning Management System (LMS) – available with the Online Teaching Suite – combining task-management tools, testing, and a suite of individual student and whole-class reports.
About the Authors

Peter Jones is a Professor Emeritus and formerly Head of the School of Mathematical Sciences at Swinburne University of Technology. He has been an active supporter of school mathematics over many years and helped pioneer the introduction of graphics calculators into Victorian schools. Peter is a highly experienced writer of mathematical content. His area of expertise is applied statistics.

Kay Lipson has a PhD in Statistics Education, and Diploma of Education. Her experience includes over 30 years teaching mathematics and statistics at both secondary and tertiary level, as well as extensive periods as a VCE examiner. Kay is an experienced author of textbooks for the Years 11 and 12 Mathematics courses, specialising in the areas of Probability and Statistics.

Michael Evans has a PhD in Mathematics from Monash University and a Diploma of Education from La Trobe University. He currently holds the honorary position of Senior Consultant at the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute at the University of Melbourne. He was Head of Mathematics at Scotch College, Melbourne, and has also taught in public schools and in recent years has returned to classroom teaching. He has been very involved with curriculum development at both state and national levels. In 1999, Michael was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by Monash University for his contribution to mathematics education.

Rose Humberstone is an experienced teacher of VCE Mathematics, with degrees from the University of Melbourne in Science and Commerce, a Ph.D. in Economics and a Masters in Education. She is currently a Head of House at Scotch College. Rose has held various curriculum leadership positions in her career as well as working as a VCAA examination assessor.

Peter Karakoussis has degrees in Science and Education from Monash University. He is an experienced teacher of senior VCE Mathematics, an assessor for the VCAA examinations and a workshop presenter for students and teachers at Australian Catholic University. Peter has served as a board member for the Mathematical Association of Victoria and is currently a teacher of mathematics at Scotch College.

Kyle Staggard has taught and been involved with online teaching and course development for many years. He has worked in curriculum and teacher professional development, as well as examination marking.