This course is designed for students who have achieved National 4.
Supported Study is available each day afterschool.
ABOUT THE EXAM
Exam Paper I 9.00-10 .05 1 hour 5 minutes (NO Calculator)
Paper II 10.35-12.35 2 hours (Calculator allowed)
Course Structure
The Applications course is organised into 3 Units:
- 1. Numeracy
- 2. Finance & Statistics
- 3. Geometry & Measure
2. NUMERACY
- WHOLE NUMBERS, DECIMALS & INTEGERS
- Long multiplication
- +, -, × & ÷
- ROUNDING
- Decimal places and significant figures.
- FRACTIONS
- Convert between Fraction, % and decimal
- Fraction of a Quantity
- Simplify fractions and equivalent fractions
- Add, Subtract, Multiply, and divide mixed or improper fractions
- PERCENTAGES
- Calculate percentages with and without a calculator.
- Calculate original values when given a percentage loss or increase.
- Compound Interest
- Percentage Appreciations/Depreciation
- % Working backwards
- READING SCALES
- RATIO
- Simplify Ratio
- Ratio calculations
- Share given a value
- Proportion (Direct & Indirect)
- TIME
- Time intervals
- Decimal time
- Calculate SPEED, DISTANCE AND TIME
- Time Distance Graphs
2. GEOMETRY & MEASURES
- FORMULA
- Write Formula
- Enter values into formula
- SCALE DRAWING
- Enlargement/Reduction
- EFFICIENT CONTAINER PACKING
- PRECEDENCE TABLES
- TIME MANAGEMENT
- TOLERANCE TABLES
- CIRCLE WORK
- Circumference of a circle
- Area of a circle
- Length of an arc/ Area of a sector
- PYTHAGORAS THEOREM
- Pythagoras Theorem
- Problems with Pythagoras
- GRADIENT
- Calculate Gradient using both rules.
- AREA
- CALCULATE PERIMETER (distance around shape)
- CALCULATE AREA OF
- Triangle
- Circle
- Quadrilateral
- CALCULATE THE SURFACE AREA OF A SHAPE
- VOLUMES
- Cube,
- Cuboid,
- Prism,
- Cone,
- Sphere,
- Cylinder
3. FINANCE & STATISTICS
- MONEY
- EXCHANGE RATES
- BEST DEALS
- Hire Purchase
- Insurance
- Comparing products
- BUDGETING
- WAGES
- Basic, Gross and Net Pay
- Overtime
- Commission
- Pay Deductions-National Insurance/Pensions
- Income Tax
- Allowances
- VALUE ADDED TAX
- BUYING/SELLING
- LOANS
- STATISTICs
- PROBIBILITY
- P(A or B)
- P(A & B)
- Effects of Bias
- Tree Diagram
- Best Fitting LINE
- Calculate-mean, mode, median, range
- standard deviation
- five figured summary
- BOXPLOT
- interquartile and semi-interquartile range
- INTERPRET/DRAW GRAPHS
- dotplot
- bar graph
- line graph
- scattergraph
- stem & leaf
- tally chart
- cumulative frequency table
- relative frequency table
- pie char
- PROBIBILITY
Recommended Revision Material
Revision Material can be found at:-
https://www.national5maths.co.uk/n5-lifeskills-maths/
A great revision material is: Youtube tutorials
Past Papers
The table below contains past papers from previous years.
Additional Past Papers can be found at:-
https://www.freeapplicationsofmaths.co.uk/resources
