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The new Mathematics 7-10 syllabus reflects a contemporary approach to teaching and learning - it is outcomes-based with standards-referenced assessment. For the first time, it describes a continuum of learning through K-10 with student achievement expressed in stage statements rather than year levels. Implementing a stage-based syllabus recognises that students progress at different rates, and provides flexibility for teachers to design individual learning programs. It also provides more continuity (and less overlap and repetition) across year levels, especially at the years 6-7 and 8-9 transitions.

New Century Maths has been thoroughly revised to reflect the spirit and detail of the new syllabus. The series contains work from different stages at each year level to accommodate students of different abilities, and at years 9 and 10 each text covers two pathways to fully cater for students whose achievements are not necessarily confined to a single pathway across the six mathematical strands. A text structured in this way both truly reflects an outcomes-based syllabus and promotes individual learning and teaching plans. You will find a host of new and familiar features requested by teachers in response to statewide surveys of secondary schools.

New Century Maths uses the latest approaches for developing mathematical understanding and caters to a wide variety of learning styles. It also makes extensive use of technology to encourage investigating concepts and to develop numeracy skills. To all the students and teachers using this book: we wish you every success with learning and teaching mathematics in the 21st century.

Key features of the student text

• Each chapter opens with a list of student outcomes, a Wordbank of key words and definitions and a Think! feature - an open-ended question to stimulate thought and discussion.
• Start up exercises review prerequisite skills for the chapter. These can be used to identify a student's skill level or to practice assumed knowledge.

• Important rules, for students to record and remember, are highlighted in boxes like these.

• Working mathematically sections contain activities, ideas and projects for exploration. These investigations are often suited to group work and student discussion, and provide opportunities for Questioning, Applying strategies, Communicating, Reasoning and Reflecting.
• Skillbanks contain power tips for mental computation, estimation and 'non-calculator maths' to improve number sense and numeracy skills. These are accompanied by SkillTests on the CD-ROM.
• Power plus exercises at the end of every chapter provide extension and enrichment for advanced students, including more challenging questions, problems and investigations.
• Language of maths at the end of each chapter contains a list of words, with questions to reinforce knowledge of terminology used in the chapter. An accompanying word puzzle is provided on the CD-ROM and in the Teacher Resource Pack.
• Using technology sections have activities that use spreadsheets, calculators, and dynamic geometry software to teach and support technology skills.
• Just for the record contains interesting facts and cross-curricular connections relating to the topic being covered.
• Topic overviews contain reflection questions and a mind map, which summarises the chapter content in pictorial form, for students to complete.
• Chapter reviews contain exercises covering the skills learned in that chapter, with each question linked back to the relevant exercise set. An accompanying topic test for the chapter is included on the CD-ROM.
• Mixed revision exercises review the previous three chapters, with each question linked back to the relevant chapter.
• A syllabus reference grid, glossary and index are provided for ready reference.

CD-ROM features

• The CD-ROM, either packaged with the text or available on your school network, contains the entire text in PDF format, with margin icons hotlinked to other sections of the book or to additional resource material.
• The icons have been colour-coded depending on their particular application in each instance. Some icons will be more than one colour where they fulfil more than one use:
  - Red = Explanation
  - Green = Practice
  - Purple = Revision
  - Orange = Learning technology
  - Teal = Using technology
• Worksheets are blackline masters in PDF format that can be printed and copied for classroom use. They include 'brainstarter' assignments, further practice and review questions, investigations, applications, remedial or extension work, games, puzzles and crosswords. Answers can be found in the accompanying Teacher Resource Pack.
• Skillsheets are reference sheets with worked examples and exercises that teach prerequisite skills from a previous topic, especially useful for elementary learners in catch-up lessons.
• Topic tests, in PDF format, can be printed and copied for classroom use. Answers can be found in the accompanying Teacher Resource Pack.
• Spreadsheets or spreadsheet templates accompany many activities.
• Geometry investigations, developed in Geometer's Sketchpad and Cabri Geometry, accompany many activities in the book. Clicking this icon will open a drop-down menu to select the software package of choice. Please note: demonstration-only versions of Cabri and GSP have been provided on the CD-ROM. These allow time-limited and/or read-only access. To experience the full functionality of these software packages, the user must purchase a complete version.
• Skilltests reinforce the skills and strategies of the Skillbanks. The data for the questions in the Skilltests are randomly generated and corrected, so students can keep practising with new questions until they master the skills.
• SkillBuilder is a tutorial program that teaches and reinforces essential basic skills.
• Animations demonstrate what happens in between the lines of a worked example. Students can watch how expressions are manipulated in a fully animated movie format.
• Computer Algebra System (CAS) investigations written for TI InterActive! software teach students how to use this powerful tool to deepen their understanding of number, algebra and graphs. Please note: a 90-day trial-only version of the software has been included on the CD-ROM. To access the files beyond this time, the user must purchase a complete version of the software.
• The questions in every exercise are hotlinked back to the relevant worked example.
• The CD-ROM also contains a teaching program in Word format that can be downloaded for easy editing.

Judy Binns is Head of Mathematics at Mulwaree High School in Goulburn. She has been responsible for teacher inservices in the Queanbeyan District to implement the new HSC, particularly the General Mathematics syllabus. She is an active member of MANSW and has presented workshops at their annual conferences.

Gaspare Carrozza is Head of Mathematics at South Sydney High School. He has conducted inservices in both Mathematics and Computing with a particular interest in the professional development of teachers. He is a past president of the Central Maths Association and a member of MANSW.

Robert Yen is a teacher of Mathematics at Hurlstone Agricultural High School, a selective high school. He co-wrote the New Century Maths General 11 and 12 texts. Robert writes for and co-edits Reflections, the journal of MANSW, as well as the column 'Mr Yen's world' for the NSW Teachers Federation newspaper, Education.

David Adams is Head of Mathematics at Pascoe Vale Girls' Secondary College. He is an author and series editor of the successful Nelson Maths for the CSF II series. David has a particular interest in learning technologies.

Preface
How to use this book
Acknowledgements
Syllabus guide

1. The history of numbers
2. Angles
3. Exploring numbers

Mixed revision 1

4. Solids
5. Integers
6. Patterns and rules

Mixed revision 2

7. Decimals
8. Length and area
9. Geometric figures

Mixed revision 3

10. Fractions
11. Volume, mass and time
12. Algebra
13. Interpreting graphs and tables

Mixed revision 4
General revision

Glossary
Answers
Index

Also available in the Secondary Education Mathematics catalogue:

• New Century Maths 7 Teacher Resource Pack
• New Century Maths 8, Student Text, CD-ROM and Teacher Resource Pack
• New Century Maths 9 Stages 5.1/5.2, Student Text, CD-ROM and Teacher Resource Pack
• New Century Maths 9 Stages 5.2/5.3, Student Text, CD-ROM and Teacher Resource Pack
• New Century Maths 10 Stages 5.1/5.2, Student Text, CD-ROM and Teacher Resource Pack
• New Century Maths 10 Stages 5.2/5.3, Student Text, CD-ROM and Teacher Resource Pack