Scheme of Work Form 4 Additional Mathematics (Term 1)

Week # Topic Surds Indices Objective 1. Perform operations involving surds 1. Use the laws of indices to simplify expressions (including expressions involving negative and rational indices) 2. Use the laws of indices to solve equations with one unknown (including equations involving negative and rational indices) 1. Use the gradient of the line segment 2. Use the relationships between gradients of parallel and mutually perpendicular lines 3. Find the point of intersection of two lines Resources Remarks

Co-ordinate Geometry

Solutions of Simultaneous Equations (one linear, one nonlinear) Quadratics 1. Express the quadratic function ax2 + bx + c in the form a(x+h)2+ k by completing the square 2. Determine maximum or minimum values and range of quadratic functions by completion of the square 3. Sketch the graph of quadratic function, including maximum or minimum points 4. Determine the nature of the roots of a quadratic equation 5. Solve equations in x reducible to a quadratic equation

6. Use the relationship between the sums and products of the roots and the coefficients of ax2 + bx + c = 0 7. Solve two simultaneous equations, in two unknowns in which one equation is linear and the other equation is quadratic Quadratic Inequalities 1. Find the solution sets of quadratic inequalities using the algebraic and graphical methods 2. Find the solution sets of inequalities of the form > 0; 0; < 0; 0 using the

algebraic and graphical methods 1. Use the terms: function, domain, co-domain, range, open interval, half open interval, closed interval, one-to-one function, onto function, one-to-one correspondence, inverse and composition of functions 2. Determine the range of a given function 3. Determine whether a given function is manyto-one or one-to-one 4. Determine the inverse of a given function (if it exists) 5. Plot and sketch functions and their inverses (if they exist) 6. State the geometrical relationship between the function y = f(x) and its inverse f-1 (x) [reflection in the line y=x ] 7. Show that, if g is in the inverse of f, then f[g(x)] = x, for all x, in the domain of g 8. Find the composition of two functions

Functions

Remainder and Factor Theorem

1. Perform operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of polynomial and rational expressions. 2. Factorize quadratic polynomial expressions leading to real linear factors (real coefficients only) 3. Use Remainder Theorem 4. Use the Factor Theorem to find factors and to evaluate unknown coefficients