Prerequisite Skills and Knowledge
There are certain essential skills that your teacher will assume that you are proficient in when you start the course. Your teacher may have some time to assist you with this, but you will have a far smoother start to the course and have less stress if you already know all the essential prerequisite topics very well.
This is important because your teacher will try their best to explain difficult maths to you, but you can only understand this if you are confident with the small steps. You will not be able to follow the explanation if you stumble at a prerequisite step.
Go through the below table and check you understand everything before you start the course. Good luck!
| Topic | Video/Playlist | Practice | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trigonometry | Trigonometry Playlist Sin, Cos and Tan Graphs | Pythagoras Practice SOHCAHTOA Finding Lengths Find Angles | You must know Pythagoras Theorem and SOHCAHTOA. Knowing the Sine Rule and Cosine Rule already will definitely help. |
| Algebra Skills | Algebra Basics | Changing the Subject of a Formula Solving Harder Equations | Key Ideas: 1. Simplifying Expressions 2. Solving Equations 3. Solving Hard Equations (including square roots) 4. Factoring and Expanding Brackets 5. Forming Equations from Real World Scenarios |
| Straight Line Graphs | Straight Line Graphs Playlist | Equation of a Line | This topic is a big deal. Straight Line Graphs are a foundation for many key topics in IB Maths. Spend some time perfecting this before you begin the course. |
| Quadratic Equations | Quadratic Equations Playlist | Solving Quadratic Equations | Must be able to: 1. Factorise Quadratic Equations 2. Solving Quadratics by Factorising and using the Quadratic Formula 3. Be able to complete the square 4. Be familiar with Quadratic Graphs. |
| Graph Transformations. | Graph Transformations Playlist | Graph Transformations | Know and predict how changing a function will change the graph. |
| 3D Shapes: Surface Area and Volume | 3D Shapes Playlist | Cylinders Surface Area Volume of Prisms | You must be able to calculate the surface area and volume of common 3D shapes: Cubes, Prisms and Cylinders. |
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