Mathematics Extension 1 11–12 units and assessments (2024)

Sample units and assessments to support teachers implementing the Mathematics Extension 1 11–12 Syllabus (2024).

Syllabus

Syllabus outcomes and content descriptors from Mathematics Extension 1 11–12 (2024) © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2024.

This 2026 Mathematics Extension 1 Stage 6 Quick Reference Guide (PDF 285 KB) provides an overview of support available to implement the Mathematics Extension 1 Stage 6 Syllabus (2024).

Year 11

These units and assessments for Year 11 represent ‘one way’ of designing teaching and learning experiences.

A 9-lesson unit for Year 11 with resources.

This program of learning addresses content from the focus area of Permutations and combinations. The lessons and sequences in this program of learning are designed to allow students to build understanding of permutations and combinations through a range of Working mathematically skills.

This program of learning addresses content from the focus area of The binomial theorem. The lessons and sequences in this program of learning are designed to allow students to explore using the binomial theorem to expand binomial expressions by selecting and applying appropriate algebraic techniques and prove identities involving binomial coefficients by substituting into algebraic expressions, comparing coefficients or applying a combinatorial argument.

This program of learning addresses content from the focus area of Polynomials. The lessons and sequences in this program of learning are designed to allow students to examine the language and graphs of polynomials, applying the remainder and factor theorems and explores the sums and products of zeroes of polynomials.

This program of learning addresses content from the focus area of Further work with functions. The lessons and sequences in this program of learning are designed to allow students to explore methods for solving cubic inequalities, absolute value inequalities and inequalities involving rational expressions with variables in the denominator.

This program of learning addresses content from the focus area of Further work with functions. The lessons and sequences in this program of learning are designed to allow students to explore the reciprocal, inverse and absolute value functions as well as the addition and subtraction of functions.

This program of learning addresses content from the focus area of Further trigonometry. The lessons and sequences in this program of learning are designed to allow students to explore trigonometry in three dimensions, introduce more complex trigonometric identities and equations including sum and difference expansions, double angle formulas and their applications.

Introduction

Further trigonometry (DOCX 8.3 MB)

Lesson 1 – sum and difference expansion formulas

Lesson 2 – double angle formulas

Lesson 3 – proving results

Lesson 4 – solving trigonometric equations

Lesson 5 – simplifying sums of sine and cosine functions

Lesson 6 – using R sin (x ± a) or R cos (x ± a) to solve equations

Lesson 7 – modelling and solving problems using trigonometry

Lesson 8 – trigonometry in three dimensions

Lesson 9 – trigonometry in three dimensions further problems

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