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Comparison of the Revised Senior Secondary Mathematics (Module 2) Curriculum Content and the Current Senior Secondary Mathematics (Module 2) Curriculum Content
Learning Unit of Current Curriculum (With updates in November 2015)
Major revision
Learning Unit of Revised Curriculum (Implemented in September 2019)
Notes about revision
(LU: Learning Unit, LO: Learning Objective) Delete Add Reorganise
/Adjust
1. Odd and even functions In the original LO 10.6, students were required to recognise the concepts of odd and even functions.
1. Surds The original LU 1 “Surd” was deleted.
4. More about trigonometric functions
4. More about trigonometric
functions
The original LO 4.2 “find arc lengths and areas of sectors through radian measure” was deleted.
“Understand their graphs” in the original LO 4.3 was deleted.
7. Differentiation
7. Differentiation Three formulae in the Remarks of the original LO 7.3:
(cot )x ′ = −cosec2x
(sec )x ′ =sec tanx x
(cosec )x ′ = −cosec cotx x were deleted.
8. Applications of differentiation
8. Applications of differentiation “Find the equations of normals to a curve” in the original LO 8.1 was deleted.
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Learning Unit of Current Curriculum (With updates in November 2015)
Major revision
Learning Unit of Revised Curriculum (Implemented in September 2019)
Notes about revision
(LU: Learning Unit, LO: Learning Objective) Delete Add Reorganise
/Adjust
9. Indefinite integration 9. Indefinite integration and its
applications
Three formulae in the Remarks of the original LO 9.2:
∫
cosec2x dx= −cotx+C
∫
sec tanx x dx=secx+C
∫
cosec cotx x dx= −cosecx+C were deleted.
In the Remarks of the original LO 9.5,
“ x2−a2 or a2+x2 ” was replaced by
“ 2 2
1 x
a − or 2 1 2 a x + ”.
10. Definite integration
10. Definite integration
“Understand the properties of periodic functions”
in the original LO 10.6 was deleted.
12. Determinants 12. Determinants In the original LO 12.1, “recognise the properties
of determinants of order 2 and order 3” was deleted.
14. Systems of linear equations
14. Systems of linear equations “The wording necessary and sufficient conditions could be introduced to students” in the Remarks of the original LO 14.1 was deleted.
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Learning Unit of Current Curriculum (With updates in November 2015)
Major revision
Learning Unit of Revised Curriculum (Implemented in September 2019)
Notes about revision
(LU: Learning Unit, LO: Learning Objective) Delete Add Reorganise
/Adjust 16. Scalar product and vector
product
16. Scalar product and vector product
“Introducing the concepts and the properties of scalar triple products” in the Remarks of the original LO 16.2 was deleted.
17. Applications of vectors 17. Applications of vectors “Applying scalar triple products to find the volume of a parallelepiped” in the Remarks of the original LO 17.1 was deleted.
