TOPICS

Arithmetic

1. Apply PEMDAS (parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition

and subtraction) on the above number system
2. Work with fractions, decimals and recurring decimals
3. Use the calculator to evaluate calculations
4. Apply prime factorisation to find LCM & HCF to find factors, multiples, highest
common factors, lowest common multiples, exponents, square and cube roots
(including problem sum questions)
5. Write numbers in product of factors in exponent form (by prime factorisation)
6. Find the reciprocal and absolute value of a number
7. Understand significant figures and use it to do estimation questions
Algebra

1. Simplify algebraic expressions involving addition, subtraction, brackets,

fractions and combinations of these
2. Evaluate algebraic expressions by substituting values for variables
3. Factorization of linear expressions
4. Addition and subtraction of algebraic fractions with linear denominator
5. Construct formula from word problem
6. Change the subject in given formula
7. Use the skills in change of subject to evaluate unknown in given algebraic formula
8. Solve number sequence (finding algebraic formula for the nth term)
9. Solve simple linear equations (including fractional and decimal coefficients)
involving one unknown
10. Solve simple fractional equations that can be reduced to linear equation
11. Form linear algebraic equations from given word problems and solve it
Inequalities

1. Perform the fundamental operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication,

and division on linear inequalities
2. Simplify and solve simple linear inequalities of one variable
Indices
1. Define zero index
2. State the rules of indices for non-negative integral indices
3. Apply rules of indices to simplify simple indicial expressions
4. Apply rules of indices to simplify algebraic expressions involving addition,
subtraction & multiplication
5. Evaluate indicial expressions
6. Solve equations involving non-negative integral indices
Statistics

1. Interpret bar graphs, pictograms, histograms, pie charts and line graphs,

stem and leaf (including back to back) and dot diagrams

2. Calculate and interpret the three different measures of central tendencies,
namely the mode, median and mean
Geometry

1. Find volume and surface area of 3D objects including cuboid, prism,

cylinder, pyramid, cone and sphere (formulas will be provided)
2. Solve problems involving volume and surface area of composite solids
3. identify right, acute, obtuse and reflex angles, complementary &
supplementary angles, vertically opposite angles, adj angles on a straight
line, adj angles at a point, interior and exterior angles.
4. identify angles formed by two parallel lines and a transversal :
corresponding, alternate and interior angles.
5. know properties of triangles and special quadrilaterals.
6. find angles sum of interior and exterior angles of any convex polygon.
Sets

1. Understand empty or null set, finite set, infinite set, universal set, equal set,
subset, complement of a set
2. Use set language and notation to describe sets and represent relationships
between sets as follows:
A = {x : x is natural number}
B = {x: a < x b}
D = {a, b, c}
3. Understand and use the following notations:
Union of A and B = A B
Intersection of A and B = A B
Number elements in set A = n(A)
is an element of
is not an element of
Complement of set A = A
Empty set = or { }
Universal set =
A is a subset of B: A B
A is a proper subset of B: A B
A is not a subset of B: A B
A is a not a proper subset of B: A B
Venn Diagrams
1. Use Venn diagram to represent the relations of different sets
2. Use Venn diagram to represent the intersection of sets, union of sets by
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