Year 13 Mathematics with Statistics (13MAS)
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Mr Z. Irani, Mr J. Anderson.
The 13 MAS course offers 20 credits at Level three. It consists of three Internal assessments, one compulsory and one optional external assessment. The compulsory Internal and external standards have a total of 16 credits. This course also offers an opportunity for subject endorsement and is a UE approved subject. The course offers Statistics standards. This course prepares students for their chosen pathway and/or tertiary level Statistics courses.
Note: For the external standard, a graphics calculator (fx-9750 GII or fx-9860 GIII) is highly recommended.
Course Overview
Term 1
91583 EXPERIMENTS(4 credits Internal)
91582 FORMAL INFERENCE(4 Credits Internal)
Term 2
91581 BI-VARIATE DATA(4 Credits Internal)
91586 PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS[Optional]
Term 3
91586 PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS[Optional]
91585 PROBABILITY CONCEPTS(4 Credits External)
Term 4
Revision of External standards
Pre-requisites
Students must have 14 credits at Level 2 including at least an ACHIEVED for the external assessment 2.12 - Probability Methods to gain entry to this course and approval by the HOLA.
Contributions and Equipment/Stationery
There is a $40 course fee that covers NZGrapher, online subscriptions and worksheets.
Optional - 1) It is recommended that students have the Nulake Statistics workbooks for practice of external standards($17) and internal standards($17)
which can be ordered via the school office.
2) Students can subscribe for Education Perfect (a digital learning platform) and get access to range of lessons, practice tasks, practice
assessments as well as past external papers.
Students MUST have their own Scientific/Graphics calculator (recommended by NZQA) and 1E5 Quad books.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
External
NZQA Info
Mathematics and Statistics 3.9 - Investigate bivariate measurement data
NZQA Info
Mathematics and Statistics 3.10 - Use statistical methods to make a formal inference
NZQA Info
Mathematics and Statistics 3.11 - Conduct an experiment to investigate a situation using experimental design principles
NZQA Info
Mathematics and Statistics 3.13 - Apply probability concepts in solving problems
NZQA Info
Mathematics and Statistics 3.14 - Apply probability distributions in solving problems
Approved subject for University Entrance
Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 20
Only students engaged in learning and achievement derived from Te Marautanga o Aotearoa are eligible to be awarded these subjects as part of the requirement for 14 credits in each of three subjects.
Disclaimer
Owing to teachers responding to individual students' needs, courses and NCEA standards taught in a subject maybe different to those displayed.