A focused full-day Mathematics Standard 2 intensive for the final weeks before the 2026 HSC. Reconnect Algebra, Measurement, Financial Mathematics, Statistical Analysis and Networks, then apply those ideas to objective-response and open-ended HSC-style problems with an expert HSC teacher.
Date
Thursday 1 October
Time
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Campus
Macquarie University — room TBC
Availability
27 places left
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Live teaching, guided exam practice and room to ask questions.
Mathematics Standard 2 · Full course intensive
Mathematics Standard 2 is about using mathematics accurately in real-world contexts. Students need to identify the information that matters, select a suitable method or technology, communicate working clearly and interpret the answer in context. This workshop connects the five Year 12 topics through guided examples, genuine problem solving and practical checking habits for the 100-mark HSC examination.
Best for
Year 12 Mathematics Standard 2 students who want a clearer method for unfamiliar worded questions, greater confidence with financial, statistical and network problems, and more consistency with calculator use, accuracy and examination timing.
Aligned to the 2026 HSC
Mathematics Standard Stage 6 Syllabus (2017)
The 2026 HSC Mathematics Standard 2 examination is based on the 2017 syllabus. The replacement 2024 syllabus begins Year 12 in Term 4, 2026 and has its first HSC examination in 2027.
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$250
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The Year 12 course
The day connects the Year 12 course with the examination skills students need to apply it.
Year 12 topic · Types of Relationships
Recognise and use linear, quadratic, exponential and other relationships in practical contexts. Practise reading graphs and tables, forming equations, using a suitable model and interpreting the result with the restrictions of the situation in mind.
Key language: types of relationships · linear relationships · quadratic relationships · exponential relationships · graphs and tables · equations · modelling
Year 12 topic · Non-right-angled Trigonometry · Rates and Ratios
Apply non-right-angled trigonometry, rates and ratios to realistic problems. Strengthen the decisions around diagrams, units, scale, appropriate formulas, calculator settings and a final answer that makes sense in the context.
Key language: non-right-angled trigonometry · sine rule · cosine rule · area of a triangle · rates · ratios · units · scale
Year 12 topic · Investments and Loans · Annuities
Turn financial information into a reliable model. Practise compound interest, investments, reducing-balance loans and annuities while interpreting interest periods, repayments, future value and the implications of the result for the decision being made.
Key language: investments and loans · compound interest · reducing-balance loans · annuities · future value · repayments · interest periods · financial decisions
Year 12 topic · Bivariate Data Analysis · The Normal Distribution
Read data critically and use it to make a justified conclusion. Practise scatterplots, association, least-squares lines, residuals and the normal distribution, including calculator output, probability and the limits of a model.
Key language: bivariate data analysis · scatterplots · correlation · least-squares line · residuals · normal distribution · z-scores · probability · interpretation
Year 12 topic · Network Concepts · Critical Path Analysis
Use network diagrams to solve planning and routing problems. Work through shortest paths, minimum spanning trees, flows, precedence relationships, critical paths and float while explaining the effect of a change on a practical schedule or system.
Key language: network concepts · shortest paths · minimum spanning trees · network flow · critical path analysis · float · precedence diagrams · scheduling
Across the day
01 · Consolidate
Review the central ideas, notation and common real-world contexts across the five Year 12 topics, including the Year 11 knowledge that the HSC paper assumes.
02 · Diagnose
Identify what the question gives, what it asks and which mathematical relationship, representation or technology will help solve it.
03 · Plan
Select formulas, diagrams, tables, graphs, calculator functions and digital tools deliberately, then organise a clear sequence of working.
04 · Practise
Work through objective-response, open-ended and multi-step questions that require students to model a context, calculate accurately and justify a conclusion.
05 · Check
Review solutions with the teacher, correct avoidable errors and check units, rounding, calculator input, reasonableness and the final interpretation.
Practice and feedback
Students work through a purposeful mix of objective-response and open-ended questions. The teacher models how to extract the useful information from a context, choose an efficient strategy, use technology appropriately, show the essential working and explain what the result means. Students then apply the approach, compare solutions, ask questions and correct errors through live guided feedback. The workshop develops method, reasoning and independence rather than providing a separate individual marking service.
Recognise the mathematics inside a real-world question and select an efficient equation, graph, diagram, network or calculator approach.
Set out enough reasoning for an open-ended response, including the model, calculation and conclusion, rather than relying on an unexplained calculator answer.
Use units, scale, time periods and practical constraints to explain what a number means and whether it is reasonable.
Use efficient checking habits for calculator input, rounding, units, labels and contextual interpretation while managing a two-and-a-half-hour paper.
Included with the workshop
Every student receives a subject-specific workbook containing concise topic notes, method reminders, worked approaches, HSC-style mixed questions, calculator and interpretation prompts, space for full working and a checking framework for common numerical, unit, rounding and context errors. Students use it throughout the workshop and can continue with it in the final weeks before the HSC.
A focused reference for the five Year 12 topics, key formulas, representations and decisions students need to recall accurately.
HSC-style questions that develop efficient decisions, clear working and practical interpretation across the full paper format.
Practical models for choosing a method, using technology purposefully, communicating a solution and checking whether a result makes sense.
Teacher modelling, live guided feedback, opportunities to ask questions and a focused room where students can compare useful approaches.
Expert HSC educators
Premium take-home resources
Marking insights and exemplars
The day connects all five Year 12 topics and revisits high-value assumed knowledge, but it is not a line-by-line reteaching of every syllabus dot point. The focus is on the methods, connections and examination decisions that produce the greatest benefit close to the HSC.
Yes. Students should bring their usual NESA-approved calculator and know its basic functions. The workshop develops efficient calculator use alongside the modelling, reasoning and working that still need to be shown. The official Mathematics Standard reference sheet is supplied in the HSC examination.
Yes. The September 2026 workshop uses the Mathematics Standard Stage 6 Syllabus (2017), which remains the syllabus examined for the 2026 HSC. The replacement 2024 syllabus is first examined in the 2027 HSC.
Year 12 students preparing for their final school assessments and the 2026 HSC examinations.
Bring a laptop or tablet if you use one for study, writing materials, water and lunch. Your workshop resources are provided.
Building, room and arrival instructions are sent by email with the ticket and again before the workshop.
Yes. Add any three workshops in one order and the $75 bundle saving is applied automatically at checkout.
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