YEAR 9 & 10 IGCSE MATHEMATICS

Textbook : Extended Mathematics for IGCSE by David Rayner, Oxford.

Chapter 1 Number
Set 1 Year 9 : Week 1 - 6 Term 1 Set 2 & 3 Year 9 : Week 1 - 8 Term 1
26/8 - 30/9 26/8 - 17/10

KEY IDEAS/CORE SKILLS RESOURCES LEARNING OUTCOME

1. fractions and decimals Ex. 1 - 4 Use the four rules for calculations with whole numbers, fractions and decimals; correct ordering
of operations and use of brackets; order quantities by magnitude, demonstrate familarity with
symbols, recognise equivalence and convert between one form to another.

2. number facts Ex 5, 6 Identify and use natural numbers, integers, prime numbers, square numbers, factors,
multiples, HCF, LCM, rational and irrational numbers, real numbers

3. sequences Ex 7, 8 Continue a given number sequence, recognise patterns in sequences and

relationships between different sequences, generalise to simple algebraic statements
and find expressions for the nth term

4. approximations Ex 9 Make estimates of quantities ;give approximations to specified numbers of significant figures and
decimal places, round off answers to reasonable accuracy.

5. limits of accuracy Ex 10, 11 Give approximate upper and lower bounds for data given to a specified accuracy ; obtain bounds for
solutions of simple problems.

6. standard form Ex 13 , 14 Convert to and from the standard form.

7. ratio, proportion, rate Ex 15 , 16 Understand the ideas and notation of ratio, direct and inverse proportion; common measures of rate;
divide a quantity in a given ratio ; increase and decrease a quantitiy in a given ratio.

8. foreign exchange Ex 17 Calculate using money and convert from one currency to another

9. map scales Ex 18 , 19 Use scales in practical situations.

10. percentages Ex 20 - 22 Calculate a given percentage of a quantity ; express one quantity as a percentage of another ;
11. simple interest Ex 23 calculate percentage increase or decrease ; carry out calculations involving inverse percentages ;
12. compound interest Ex 24 solve problems on personal and household finance involving earnings, discount, profit, loss, simple
interest and compound interest ; extract data from tables and charts.

13. speed , distance , time Ex 25 Calculations involving these quantities ; calculate average speed.

14. measures, time Ex 26 - 28 Use metric units of mass, length, area, volume and capacity in practical situations and
express quantities in terms of larger or smaller units; calculate times in terms of the 12-hour and
24-hour clock ; read clocks, dials and time-tables;

15. calculator Ex 29 Use a calculator efficiently, apply appropriate checks of accuracy

16. estimation Make estimates of numbers, quantities and lengths, give approximations to specified
numbers of significant figures and decimal places and round off answers to reasonable
accuracy in the context of a given problem.

Chapter 2 & 5 Algebra

Set 1 Year 9 : Week 7 - 17 Term 1 Set 2 & 3 Year 9 : Week 9 - 17 Term 1
6/10 - 17/12 20/10 - 17/12
Chapter 2
1. directed numbers Ex 1 - 3 Use directed numbers in practical situations.

2. formulae Ex 4 - 7 Use letters to represents numbers ; express basic arithmetic processes algebraically; substitiute
numbers for words and letters in formulae

3. expansion of brackets Ex 8 - 10 Expand products of algebraic expressions and simplify.

4. linear equations Ex 11 - 16 Construct simple expressions, set up and solve equations

5. simultaneous equations Ex 17 - 20 Solve simultaneous linear equations in two unknowns.

6. factorising Ex 21 - 25 Use brackets and extract common factors.

7. quadratic equations Ex 26 - 30 Solve quadratic equations

Set 2 & 3 Year 9 : Week 1 - 5 Term 2

7/1 - 6/2
Chapter 5
1. algebraic fractions Ex 1 - 3 Simplify and manipulate algebraic fractions.

2. subject of a formula Ex 4 - 9 Transform formula.

3. indices Ex 12 - 14 Use and interpret positive, negative, zero and fractional indices.

4. variation Ex 10 , 11 Express direct and inverse variation in algebraic terms and use this form of expression
find unknowns.

Chapter 4 Geometry
Set 1 Year 9 : Week 1 - 6 Term 2 Set 2 & 3 Year 9 : Week 6 - 13 Term 2
7/1 - 13/2 9/2 - 3/4

1. properties of angles Ex 1 Use and interpret the geometrical terms: point, line, parallel, right angle, acute, obtuse and reflex
2. angles in polygons Ex 2 angles, perpendicular. Calculate unknown angles at a point, on a straight line and intersecting
3. angles in parallel lines Ex 3 straight lines, parallel lines, triangles and quadrilaterals, regular and irregular polygons.

3. Pythagoras' theorem Ex 4 Apply Pythagoras' theorem to problem solving.

4. symmetry Ex 5 Recognise line and rotational symmetry in two dimensions and properties of triangles,
quadrilaterals and circles related to their symmetries. Recognise symmetry properties of the
prism

5. similarity & congruency Ex 6 - 9 Use and interpret the geometrical terms : similarity and congruency; use the relationships between
the areas of similar figures, surface area and volumes of similar solids.

6. circle theorems Ex 10 - 12 Calculate unknown angles using the geometrical properties of circle theorems.

7. constructions and loci Ex 13 , 14 Use a pair of compasses and ruler to construct simple shapes and angles; construct and describe
loci.
8. nets Ex 15

Chapter 6 Trigonometry
Set 1 Year 9 : Week 7 - 13 Term 2 Set 2 & 3 Year 9 : Week 1 - 4 Term 3, Week 8 - 11 Term 3
16/2 - 3/4 20/4 - 15/5, 8/6 - 3/7
1. find the length of a side
2. find the unknown angle
3. bearings
angle of elevation, depression
4 scale drawing
5. sin,cos,tan for any angle
6. sine and cosine rule
7. three dimensional problems
Chapter 3 Mensuration
Set 1 Year 9 : Week 1 - 4, Week 8 - 11 Term 3
20/4 - 15/5,8/6 - 3/7
1. area of triangle, quadrilateral
2. area, circumference of circle
3. arc length and sector area
4. chord of a circle
5. volume
6. surface area
Chapter 7 Graphs
Set 1 Year 10 : Week 1 - 3 Term 1
Ex 2 , 3 Apply the sin, cos and tan ratios for acute angles to the calculation of a side
Ex 4 or an angle of a right-angled triangle ( angles to one decimal place )
Ex 5 Interpret and use three-figure bearings measured clockwise from the North.
Solve trigonometrical problems in two dimensions involving angles of
elevation and depression.
Ex 6 Measure lines and angles; construct a triangle given the three sides;
construct other simple geometrical figures from given data; read and make
scale drawings.
Ex 8 Extend sin and cos values to angles between 90 and 180 degrees.
Ex 9 - 11 Solve problems using the sine and cosine rules for any triangle.
Ex 7 Solve simple trigonometrical problems in three dimensions.
Set 2 & 3 Year 10 : Week 1 - 7 Term 1
26/8 - 10/10
Ex 1 , 2 Carry out calculations involving the area and perimeter of a rectangle and triangle, the
Ex 3 , 4 circumference and area of a circle, the area of a parallelogram and a trapezium, the
Ex 5 Solve problems involving the arc length and sector area as fractions of the circumference
Ex 6 and area of a circle. Understand and calculate chord.
Ex 7 , 8 Find the volume of a cuboid, cylinder and prism ( no formulae given ); sphere, pyramid
Ex 9 and cone ( formulae given )
Find the surface area of a cuboid and a cylinder ( no formulae given ); sphere, pyramid
and cone ( formulae given )
Set 2 & 3 Year 10 : Week 8 - 12 Term 1
13/10 - 14/11
1. straight line graphs Ex 1 Demonstrate familiarity with cartesian coordinates in two dimensions; draw graphs from
2. gradient , distance , midpoint Ex 2 given data ; interpret and obtain the equation of a straight line graph in the form
3. equation of a straight line Ex 3 - 5 y = mx + c ; determine the equation of a straight line parallel to a given line; find the
gradient of a straight line graph.
Chapter 5 Algebra
Set 1 Year 10 : Week 1 - 5 Term 1 Set 2 & 3 Year 10 : Week 13 - 17 Term 1
26/8 - 26/9 17/11 - 17/12

1. inequalities Ex 15, 16 Solve simple linear inequalities.

2. inequalities graph Ex 17 Represent inequalities graphically, shading unwanted regions.

3. linear programming Ex 18 Use the representation of the inequalities graph in the solution of simple linear programming
problems

Chapter 7 Graphs
Set 1 Year 10 : Week 1 - 5 Term 1 Set 2 & 3
26/8 - 26/9 Year 10 : Week 1 - 6 Term 2
7/1 - 13/2
1. curved graphs Ex 6 , 7 Construct tables of values for graphs; draw and interpret such graphs

2. sketch graphs Ex 8

3. interpreting graphs Ex 9 Interpret and use graphs in practical situations including travel graphs and conversion
graphs, draw graphs from given data.

4. graphical solutions Ex 10 Solve linear and quadratic equations approximately by graphical methods

5. distance-time graphs Ex 11 Apply the idea of rate of change to easy kinematics.

6. speed-time graphs Ex 12, 13

Chapter 9 Matrices & Transformations

Set 1 Year 10 : Week 6 - 12 Term 1 Set 2 & 3 Year 10 : Week 7 - 13 Term 2
29/9 - 14/11 16/2 - 3/4

1. matrix operations Ex 1 Display information in the form of a matrix, calculate the sum and product; product of a matrix and
 a scalar quantity

2. the inverse of a matrix Ex 2 Use 2 X 2 matrices including the zero and identity matrices, calculate determinant and inverse.

3. reflections Ex 3. 4 Reflect simple plane figures in horizontal or vertical lines; rotate simple plane figures
4. rotation Ex 5, 6 about the origin, vertices or mid-points of edges of the figures, through multiples of 90;
5. translation Ex 7 construct given translations and enlargements of simple plane figures; recognise and
6. enlargement Ex 8 describe reflections, rotations, translations and enlargements.

7. describing transformations Ex 9 Identify and give precise descriptions of transformations connecting given figures; describe
8. combined transformations Ex 10 - 11 transformations using coordinates and matrices.
9. transformations using matrices Ex 12, 13

10. base vectors Ex 14

11. shear and stretch Ex 15

Chapter 10 Statistics and probability

Set 1 Year 10 : Week 1 - 6 Term 2 Set 2 & 3 Year 10 : Week 1 - 4 Term 3, Week 8 - 11 Term 3
7/1 - 13/2 20/4 - 15/5, 15/6 - 3/7

1. pie chart , bar chart Ex 1 Collect, classify and tabulate statistical data; read, interpret and draw simple references from tables
2. histogram Ex 2 and statistical diagrams; construct and use bar charts, pie
3. scatter graphs Ex 4 construct and read histograms with equal and unequal intervals and scatter diagrams ( including
drawing a line of best fit ) , understand what is meant by positive, negative and zero correlation.

4. mean , median , mode Ex 3 Calculate the mean, median and mode for individual and discrete data and distinguish between the
purposes for which they are used; calculate the range; calculate an estimate of the mean for
grouped and continuous data; identify the modal class from a grouped frequency distribution.

5. cumulative frequency Ex 5 Construct and use cumulative frequency diagrams; estimate and interpret the median, percentiles,
quartiles and inter-quartile range

6. probability Ex 6 - 8 Calculate the probability of a single event; simple combined events; using possibility diagrams and tree
diagrams. charts, pictograms, simple frequency distributions,

Chapter 8 Sets, vectors and functions

Set 1 Year 10 : Week 13 - 17 Term 1 Set 2 & 3 Year 11 Term 1
17/11 - 19/12

1. sets Ex 1 - 4 Use language, notation and Venn diagrams to describe sets and represent relationships between sets.

2. vectors Ex 5 - 10 Use column vectors; add and subtract vectors; multiply a vector by a scalar; calculate the magnitude of a
vector; represent vectors by directed line segments; express given vectors in terms of other vectors

3. functions Ex 11 , 12 Use function notations, inverse functions; form composite functions.

Additional Maths to be covered by Year 10 Set 1 in Term 2 and Term 3

1. Chapter 2 Simultaneous equations

2. Chapter 7 Coordinate geometry
3. Chapter 1 Sets
4. Chapter 9 Functions
5. Chapter 10 Trigonometric functions
6. Chapter 11 Trigonometric identities and equations
7. Chapter 12 Circular measure
8. Chapter 3 Indices, surds and logarithms
9. Chapter 4 Quadratic expressions and equations
10.Chapter 5 Remainder and factor theorems