Apprenticeship and Workplace Mathematics 11

Unit 1: Geometry

Right-triangle problems on the job, scale, modelling and drawing 3-D objects and their views, and exploded views and component drawings.

• Solving with a single right triangle
• Solving with two and three right triangles

• Reading and stating scale
• Scaling up and scaling down
• Solving scale problems

• Top, front and side views
• Isometric drawings of 3-D objects
• Building an object from its views

• Exploded views
• Component-part drawings
• Scale diagrams of simple 3-D objects

Unit 2: Measurement

Surface area, and volume and capacity, in SI and Imperial units.

• Surface area of prisms
• Surface area of cylinders and curved solids
• Composite surface area and verifying solutions

• Volume of prisms and cylinders
• Volume of cones, pyramids and spheres
• Capacity and converting volume to capacity

Unit 3: Number

Numerical puzzles and games, personal budgets, compound interest, financial institution services, and credit options.

• Strategies for numerical puzzles
• Analysing why a numerical strategy works

• Building a personal budget
• Adjusting a budget to a goal
• Making budget decisions

• Understanding compound interest
• Computing compound interest
• Compound interest in saving and borrowing

• Accounts and transaction services
• Fees and managing an account
• Online banking and account security

• Credit cards and their cost
• Loans and comparing credit options