Specialist Mathematics VCE Units 1&2 Second Edition Online Teaching Suite

This new edition of the leading VCE Mathematics series combines authoritative coverage of the new Study Design with a proven teaching and learning formula and innovative digital resources to support ALL students to achieve VCE success. Our highly respected author team now draws on the expertise of additional experienced educators who bring their own classroom experience to interpret the new Study Design and provide logical topic development and rigorous questions that most effectively build student skills. Enhanced digital features including an Exam Generator, student workspaces and self-assessment tools, videos for all worked examples, auto-marked quizzes, Desmos interactives, and a range of downloadable activities, will give students the best assessment preparation available.

• The powerful, integrated digital resources and LMS are now improved and include many new features to benefit students and teachers.
• Calculator activities, examples and guides for calculators are included in all courses, and technology-free questions are provided in the Methods and Specialist courses.
• Worked solutions are available for every question in each course.
• The Task Manager tool allows teachers to set task sequences that can send users on a path appropriate to their results in a measurable task.
• The Exam Generator allows teachers to create custom practice exams using previous VCAA questions plus additional VCAA-style questions with mark allocation and solutions.
• Supporting documents for teachers include new investigations, additional exercises, more chapter tests and answers, skillsheets, curriculum information and more.
• Supporting material is provided for the prescribed ‘Networks’ content in the General course to guide teachers who are unfamiliar with the topic.
• Appendices in the Methods and Specialist courses provide support for teachers unfamiliar with algorithms and pseudocode, along with support for using various technology to code algorithms.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

David Treeby

David Treeby obtained his Bachelor of Science with Honours in Mathematics at Monash University, in 2005. He later obtained his doctorate in 2018. David has taught high school mathematics since 2006, and is currently based at Scotch College, Melbourne, where he is Teacher in Charge of Extension Mathematics. David’s teaching interests lie in extending students with rich and interesting problems. David is also an active research mathematician, and most of his published work is in the area of Mathematical Physics.

Michael Evans

Michael Evans has a PhD in Mathematics from Monash University and a Diploma of Education from La Trobe University. He currently holds the honorary position of Senior Consultant at the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute at the University of Melbourne. He was Head of Mathematics at Scotch College, Melbourne, and has also taught in public schools and in recent years has returned to classroom teaching. He has been very involved with curriculum development at both state and national levels. In 1999, Michael was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws by Monash University for his contribution to mathematics education.

Douglas Wallace

Douglas Wallace has been a Senior Mathematics Teacher at an Independent College in Melbourne for 20 years. He was Head of Mathematics from 1990 to 2000 and went on to lead the Senior College Curriculum as well as the International Baccalaureate Coordinator.

Gareth Ainsworth

Gareth Ainsworth completed a PhD in Mathematics and a Master of Advanced Study in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge. Prior to this he completed a Bachelor of Science with Honours in Mathematics at Monash University. Currently, he is Head of Mathematics at Scotch College in Melbourne, where he spends his time advising secondary school students on their mathematical development and assisting them to achieve at the highest levels in the subject.

Kay Lipson

Kay Lipson has a PhD in Statistics Education, and Diploma of Education. Her experience includes over 30 years teaching mathematics and statistics at both secondary and tertiary level, as well as extensive periods as a VCE examiner. Kay is an experienced author of textbooks for the Years 11 and 12 Mathematics courses, specialising in the areas of Probability and Statistics.