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THE ALEXANDRA SCHOOL SCHEME OF WORK: DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

TERM III 2011 -2012

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FORM ONE (1)

NO. TOPIC OR DETAILS LENGTH OF

TIME (WEEKS)

1 Complete from term 2: Measurement 1 2 PERIMETER AND AREA

Units for perimeter and area Rectangles Triangles Irregular shapes

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3 VOLUME Cubes and cuboids

4 PLANE SHAPES AND SOLIDS Properties of

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

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5 EQUATIONS Solving using the balance method Worded problems

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6 REVISION

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FORM TWO (2)

NO. TOPIC OR DETAILS LENGTH OF

TIME (WEEKS)

1 Complete unfinished topics from last term - straight line and travel graphs

2 INEQUALITIES Graphs of inequalities – line and Cartesian Solution –including multiplication and division by

negative numbers

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3 CONSTRUCTIONS Bisect a straight line Bisect an angle Construct angles of 600, 1200, 300, 900, 450

without using a protractor Construct triangles and rectangles

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4 PYTHAGORAS’ THEOREM 1

5 REVISION

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FORM THREE (3)

NO. TOPIC OR DETAILS LENGTH OF

TIME (WEEKS)

1 Complete unfinished topics from term 2 – Quadratics 2 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

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3 TRANSFORMATION GEOMETRY Translations Reflections Rotations Enlargements

3 1/2

4 REVISION

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FORM FOUR (4) GENERAL

NO. TOPIC OR DETAILS LENGTH OF

TIME (WEEKS)

1 ALGEBRA Complete Term 2 Algebra

2 VECTORS • Vector in algebra • Vectors in geometry • Position Vectors • Length of vectors

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3 MATRICES • Review addition, subtraction and multiplication

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

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4 FUNCTIONS • Mappings • Function notation • Inverse Functions • Composite Functions

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FORM FIVE (5)

NO. TOPIC OR DETAILS LENGTH OF

TIME (WEEKS)

1 Complete all unfinished topics and do practice papers.