CambridgeMATHS

Stage 6 Mathematics Updates

NESA made some minor amendments to its calculus syllabuses in November 2019, but only one of
these changes required a corresponding change in the Cambridge Advanced and Extension 1
textbooks. (No change required in the Cambridge Extension 2 textbook.) Bracket interval notation,
such as (3, 8), is now specifically required in Year 11.

We have accordingly updated CambridgeMATHS Stage 6: Mathematics Advanced Year 11 and

CambridgeMATHS Stage 6: Mathematics Extension 1 Year 11 with material on bracket interval
notation. Interval notation now occurs in three places in the books:
--- Inequality interval notation, such as 3 < 𝑥 < 8, is introduced as before in Section 2B (Year 11
Advanced and Extension 1).
--- Bracket interval notation, such as (3, 8), is introduced in a new updated section, which we
recommend teaching immediately after Section 3H (Year 11 Advanced and Extension 1), so that it
can be put to use for writing domains, ranges, and the solution of inequations.
--- Union of intervals in bracket notation still needs to be delayed until Year 12, in Section 2A of the
Advanced book and Section 3A of the Extension 1 book. This is because writing 𝑥 ≠ 0, for example,
in bracket interval notation requires the union of sets to have been taught or reviewed, which only
occurs in the context of probability.

In addition, an earlier change to the definition of phase in the Extension 2 course presumably
requires the definition of phase to be changed in Advanced and Extension 1 as well. We have
accordingly rewritten the notes and questions on phase in Section 2I of CambridgeMATHS Stage 6:
Mathematics Advanced Year 12 and Section 3J of CambridgeMATHS Stage 6: Mathematics Extension
1 Year 12. Two questions in the subsequent Review exercise are also affected.

Two additional sections have also been included which deal with the use of future value tables and
present value tables to assist in questions involving annuities, thus avoiding calculations with GPs.
The two new sections are Sections 8F and 8G in the Year 12 Advanced book and Sections 14F and
14G in the Year 12 Extension 1 book.

In CambridgeMATHS Stage 6: Mathematics Standard Year 11 we have updated Section 4A to include

the standard prefixes: nano, micro, giga and tera. The syllabus requirements for Capture-recapture
are covered at the end of Section 7A in the interactive textbook.

In CambridgeMATHS Stage 6: Mathematics Standard 2 Year 12, we have included the exponential
model 𝑦 = 𝑘𝑎2 in Chapter 8 under ‘Graphs of Exponential Functions’ and ‘Key ideas and chapter
summary’. We have also updated the symbol for mean from 𝑥 to 𝜇.