THE  ALEXANDRA  SCHOOL    

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS SCHEME OF WORK  TERM  2    

2011-­‐2012  

FORM ONE (1)

NO. TOPIC OR DETAILS LENGTH OF

TIME (WEEKS)

1 Complete from term 1: Algebra, Set Theory and Coordinates

4

2 STATISTICS Data Collection Presentation of data: frequency table, pictogram,

bar chart, pie chart, line graph

2

3 ANGLES Measuring angles Drawing angles

1

4 MEASUREMENT Basic Units of measurement

- Length - Mass - Time - Temperature

2

5 PLANE SHAPES AND SOLIDS Properties of

- triangles - quadrilaterals - circles - name of polygons with up to 10 sides - cube and cuboid - cylinder - prism - cone - pyramid - sphere

2

FORM TWO (2)

NO. TOPIC OR DETAILS LENGTH OF

TIME (WEEKS)

1 Complete unfinished topics from last term

- Set Theory and straight line graphs 3

2 LINEAR EQUATIONS Equations with brackets Equations with fractions Equations with unknowns in the denominator word problems leading to equations

3

3 COORDINATES The Cartesian Plane Plotting points Reading coordinates

2

4 TRAVEL GRAPHS Finding distance and time from a graph Finding the average speed Reading information from travel graphs

FORM THREE (3)

NO. TOPIC OR DETAILS LENGTH OF

TIME (WEEKS)

1 Complete unfinished topics from term 1 – changing the subject of a formula , indices and inequalities

3

2 SET THEORY - Review from forms 1 and 2 - Equal and equivalent sets - Venn Diagrams with three sets - Shading regions on a Venn Diagram

2

3 QUADRATICS - Factorisation of quadratic expressions - Solving quadratic equations: factorization

method - Quadratic graphs

3

4 GEOMETRY - Angles in isosceles and equilateral

triangles - Interior and exterior angles of triangles

and other polygons - Congruent triangles - Properties of quadrilaterals: square,

rectangle, kite, rhombus. parallelogram, trapezium

-

2

FORM FOUR (4) GENERAL

NO. TOPIC OR DETAILS LENGTH OF

TIME (WEEKS)

1 Complete unfinished topics 2

2 ALGEBRA - Fractional Indices - Changing the subject of the formula - Quadratics

- Review factorisation

- Completing the square

- Solving quadratic equations using factors, completing the square and the formula

- Simultaneous equations: One Linear and one quadratic

4

3 VECTORS - Vector algebra - Using vectors in geometry - Position Vectors - Length of vectors

2

4 MATRICES - Review addition, subtraction and

multiplication by a scalar - Matrix multiplication - Inverse of a matrix - Solving simultaneous equations using

matrices

2

FORM FIVE (5)

NO. TOPIC OR DETAILS LENGTH OF

TIME (WEEKS)

1 Complete all unfinished topics and do practice papers.