HSC Mathematics. The smart way to prepare for your HSC.

This course is the first in a series of four Mathematics Advanced courses and provides consolidation of the key content and skills from specific topics in the Mathematics Advanced HSC course. The program covers graphing techniques, trigonometric functions and graphs, differential calculus, and descriptive statistics and bivariate data analysis. Prerequisite skills from the Mathematics Advanced Preliminary course will be reviewed. Study skills and examination techniques will also be emphasised.

Other courses in this series include HSC Mathematics Preparation – Advanced (Part 2) (April) and HSC Mathematics Preparation – Advanced (Part 3) (July). You do not need to attend all three parts in order to benefit.

Outcomes

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• apply transformations to sketch polynomial, reciprocal, absolute value, trigonometric, exponential or logarithmic functions
• use graphical methods and supporting algebraic techniques to solve a variety of practical problems, including those involving periodic phenomena
• solve trigonometric equations
• differentiate trigonometric, exponential and logarithmic functions
• apply the product, quotient and chain rules to differentiate functions
• organise, interpret and display grouped and ungrouped data
• calculate and interpret summary statistics and identif