New South Wales’ most trusted Mathematics series has been updated for the 2018 Mathematics Standard Stage 6 syllabus.

Insight Mathematics Standard 2 Year 12 is part of a three-volume series, which offers complete support for teachers and their students in 2018 and beyond.

Authors John Ley and Michael Fuller bring their years of classroom, curriculum and academic experience to the Oxford Insight Mathematics Standard series, while award-winning UNSW lecturer Daniel Mansfield provides an engaging approach to the new Year 12 topic of Networks. Together they provide depth and coverage of the syllabus in an accessible format that encourages all students to succeed.

Key features

• Teachers and students alike will experience immediate benefit from the key features offered in this series.
• All content has been explicitly aligned to the new Mathematics Standard Stage 6 syllabus.
• Trusted and appropriately levelled content has been developed by expert mathematics teachers.
• Comprehensive exercise sets incorporate worked examples where students actually need them.
• A visual mathematics glossary boosts understanding of key concepts.
• More exam-style questions enhance opportunities for consolidation and review.
• obook assess provides comprehensive student and teacher digital support.

A pathway to success for every student

A range of chapter features will give students of all abilities the best chance at experiencing success in their Mathematics Standard Stage 6 studies.

• New: Diagnostic testing at the start of every chapter to assess student ability
• New: Support sheets to strengthen and revise foundation skills
• New: More depth and extension opportunities through student investigations
• New: Carefully graded worked examples and exercises to support individual learning pathways

CHAPTER 1: Investments, depreciation and loans
CHAPTER 2: Non-right-angled trigonometry
CHAPTER 3: Rates and ratios
CUMULATIVE REVIEW CHAPTERS 1–3

CHAPTER 4: Simultaneous linear equations
CHAPTER 5: Bivariate data analysis
CHAPTER 6: Network concepts
CHAPTER 7: Annuities
CUMULATIVE REVIEW CHAPTERS 4–7

CHAPTER 8: Non-linear relationships
CHAPTER 9: The normal distribution
CHAPTER 10: Critical path analysis
CUMULATIVE REVIEW CHAPTERS 8–10

Note: Contents subject to change prior to publication

John Ley
John is a passionate and innovative mathematics educator. He is currently completing his PhD in mathematics education, while lecturing and tutoring at Australian Catholic University and the University of Western Sydney. John has held an array of teaching positions including Head of Mathematics, Assistant Principal and Acting Principal. An experienced senior marker for the HSC, John was a member of the 2012–2014 assessment committees, setting the HSC calculus course examinations. John is the lead author of the Oxford Insight Mathematics series for NSW.

Michael Fuller
Michael has been involved in Mathematics in NSW for many years. He held the position of Head of Mathematics at Killara High School in Sydney for 24 years. In his retirement, Michael is now a key author on the Oxford Insight Mathematics series for NSW.

Daniel Mansfield
Daniel is a Lecturer in Mathematics at UNSW Sydney. In 2015 he was presented with a Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, and in 2017 he won one of the KPMG Inspiring Teacher Awards. He has previously created online professional development courses for secondary school teachers, and presented on the subject of Networks at the 2017 MANSW Annual Conference.

This resource includes a physical copy of the Student book and access to obook assess which is a cloud-based obook that students can use anywhere, anytime on any device. 

obook assess provides students with access to:

• a complete digital version of the Student book with added note-taking and bookmarking functionality
• targeted instructional videos by a team of Australia’s most experienced mathematics teachers designed to help students prepare for assessment tasks and exams
• interactives
• a range of support sheets for every chapter, designed to consolidate and extend understanding of key points from the syllabus
• investigations, including problem solving tasks and application tasks
• a range of worksheets for additional practice in each chapter
• spreadsheets for students to develop their ICT capacity and cover key syllabus applications
• a range of interactive, auto-correcting, multiple-choice assess quiz questions.

This resource includes a physical copy of the Student book and access to obook assess which is a cloud-based obook that teachers and students can use anywhere, anytime on any device.

Teacher access to obook assess is available for FREE to booklisting schools or schools that purchase a class set of 25 or more copies. Contact your Oxford Education Consultant to discuss your requirements and request a demonstration.

obook assess provides  teachers with access to:

• detailed planning resources, including work programs
• answers to every question in the Student book
• printable (and editable) chapter tests (with exam-style questions)with answers
• practice exam with answers.

Teachers also have access to the following student resources via obook assess:

• a complete digital version of the Student book with added note-taking and bookmarking functionality
• targeted instructional videos by a team of Australia’s most experienced mathematics teachers designed to help students prepare for assessment tasks and exams
• interactives
• a range of support sheets for every chapter, designed to consolidate and extend understanding of key points from the syllabus
• investigations, including problem solving tasks and application tasks
• a range of worksheets for additional practice in each chapter
• spreadsheets for students to develop their ICT capacity and cover key syllabus applications
• a range of interactive, auto-correcting, multiple-choice assess quiz questions.

Here are some sample pages for your reference.
Chapter 9: Network concepts