Year 10
NCEA

Extra Material

For parents who want extra material, there are some relatively cheap books that give pages of homework exercises (along with quite useful notes and examples):


An excellent on-line resource is available at nz.ixl.com, which more or less covers the entire syllabus. Students can sign up and their progress can be tracked by weekly e-mail.
 

Year Plan

This is a plan only, and dates will change somewhat with circumstances.

Term	Topic	Content	Time
One	Number (1)	General number revision, particularly negatives Rounding, standard form, powers and roots	4 weeks
	Number (2)	Percentages, decimals, ratios, proportion and fractions	3 weeks
	Algebra	Simplifying expressions. Solving equations	3 wks
Two	Algebra contd	Expanding and factorising quadratics	2 weeks
	Graphs	Patterns and relationships. Graphs	3 weeks
	Measurement (1)	Metric system, scales, time and rates	2 weeks
	Measurement (2)	Perimeter and area of rectangles, parallelograms, and circles, and shapes made up of parts of those Volumes of prisms, especially cuboids and cylinders	3 weeks
Three	Geometry (1)	Angles on lines, polygons and parallel lines. Circle geometry	3 weeks
	Geometry (2)	Pythagoras Theorem Sine, Cosine and Tangent to find sides	3 weeks
	Probability	Experimental probability Theoretical probability including tree diagrams	4 weeks
Four	Transformations	Reflection, rotation and translation. Tesselation. 3D representations	2 weeks
	Exams	Revision and exams	2 weeks
	Statistics	Means, medians, quartiles, ranges Statistical graphs, Data collection and sampling Project	3 weeks
	Camps	No classes	1 week

 

Contact

My preferred initial contact is via e-mail: mplant @ stjohns-hamilton.school.nz (no gaps).

If you want to talk directly, then a telephone call back or a meeting at school can be arranged.