Midterm Syllabus (December 2022)

1. Sets (section 9.3)

2. Indices (section 2.5)
3. Standard form (section 5.4)
4. Upper bounds and lower bounds (section 13.3)
5. Calculate a given percentage of a quantity. Calculate the percentage increase or decrease. (Grade 8 content)
6. Simple interest, compound interest, hire purchase, exponential growth and decay (section 17.2 and 17.3)
7. Conversion from one currency to another. (Grade 8 content)
8. Changing the subject of formula (Grade 8 content)
9. Factorization (taking out the common factors, midterm break, difference of squares ((a2 –b2) = (a + b) (a – b))
(section 6.3, Ex 10.10, Ex 10.11, and section 14.7)
10. Quadratic equations (factorization, completing the square and use of formula). (Ex 10.12 and section 14.5 and
14.6)
11. Simultaneous linear equations (elimination and substitution method (Grade 8 content))
12. Derive and solve simultaneous equations, involving one linear and one quadratic.
13. Functions (evaluating functions, inverse functions and composite functions) (section 22.3)
14. Linear inequalities (Ex 14.4)
15. Represent inequalities graphically and use this representation to solve simple linear programming problems.
(section 14.3 and 14.4)
16. Draw graphs from given data. (section 10.1)
17. Find the gradient of a straight line. Calculate the gradient of a straight line from the coordinates of two points on
it. (section 10.1)
18. Calculate the length and the coordinates of the midpoint of a straight line from the coordinates of its end points.
(Section 10.1)
19. Interpret and obtain the equation of a straight-line graph. Find the gradient of parallel and perpendicular lines.
(section 10.1)
20. Apply the idea of rate of change to simple kinematics involving distance– time and speed–time graphs,
acceleration and deceleration.(Section 21.4)
21. Calculate distance travelled as area under a speed–time graph. (Section 21.4)