Maths is incredibly useful for solving tricky real-world problems quickly. Contexts include environmental issues, personal finance planning, travel, sport, and more.

Students will solve real-world problems involving:
- ratio and proportion
- factors, multiples, powers and roots
- integer and fractional powers applied to numbers
- fractions, decimals and percentages
- rates
- rounding with decimal places and significant figures
- standard form

Students in this class will be working toward demonstrating their understanding of this topic and earning four NCEA Level 1 maths credits through an internal assessment.