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Maths For Year 9 - The Advanced Levels

Your child in Year 9 is beginning to transition to more advanced levels of Maths, making a firm grasp on core concepts essential. Now is also an opportune time for them to hone problem-solving, reasoning, and understanding skills - crucial skills both at school as well as competing at national-level competitions such as Olympiads. Maths for Year 9 is far more challenging than its counterparts in Year 7 maths and 8. At this stage, they begin exploring more in-depth material which will serve them throughout their careers. Students studying number, measurement and space will develop skills to distinguish rational from irrational numbers as well as solve multi-step problems involving them and radical expressions. Furthermore, they will become adept at using Pythagorean theorem and trigonometric ratios in their calculations. Here, students begin to delve deeper into algebra's deeper concepts. They will be able to compose more intricate equations and inequalities while understanding ho...