Essential Mathematics
Essential Mathematics CORE retains many of the features that made our previous series Essential Mathematics GOLD for the Australian Curriculum so popular. Combining a proven teaching and learning formula with innovative digital capabilities, Essential Mathematics CORE encourages students who require additional support in mathematics to master the basics of applied mathematics in everyday life and in the workplace.
Authors: David Greenwood, Bryn Humberstone, Sara Woolley, Justin Robinson, Jenny Goodman, Jennifer Vaughan and Stuart Palmer.
Essential Mathematics for the Australian Curriculum Third Edition and Essential Mathematics for the Victorian Curriculum Second Edition retain all of the features that have made these series so popular and now addresses the needs of a wider range of students, provides even greater assistance for teachers and offers a new level of digital support.
Authors: David Greenwood, Bryn Humberstone, Sara Woolley, Justin Robinson, Jenny Goodman, Jennifer Vaughan and Stuart Palmer.
‘Building Understanding’ pre-exercise questions have been added after the ‘Key Ideas’ in each section to improve the flow of each section and exercise. This allows stronger students to move more quickly to the worked examples and the main part of the exercise, while weaker students are given an opportunity to consolidate their knowledge before seeing the worked examples and beginning the exercise.
Questions without worked solutions have been added to every worked example in the print and interactive textbooks. These additional questions give students immediate practice at the same type of question covered in the worked example, before the student gets to the exercise. ‘Now You Try’ questions also allow teachers to demonstrate a question in the same style as the worked examples.
A set of graded and scaffolded ‘Applications and Problem-solving’ activities allowing students to investigate practical applications of the knowledge and skills developed throughout the chapter.
‘Learning intentions’ at the beginning of each lesson clearly state what the student should expect to learn in the lesson. A checklist of success criteria, complete with short example questions, is then provided at the end of every chapter to assist students with keeping track of their progress through the chapter, and also doubles as a form of quick revision.
Additional features in the Interactive Textbook and Online Teaching Suite, powered by Cambridge HOTmaths:
View our workshop recording: Exploring the enhanced teaching & learning support in the new Essential Mathematics for Victoria, presented by David Greenwood
