Books in Essential Mathematics series

Essential Mathematics for the Australian Curriculum is an all-new comprehensive teaching and learning program developed especially for Years 7 to 10A of the Australian Curriculum. It offers a suite of print and digital resources that cater for the full range of learning abilities and styles in the maths classroom. This teacher edition supports teachers using the Year 7 textbook with a wide variety of features designed for use in and out of the classroom. It provides margin annotations of the student text, reproduced in this text so that teachers can open to the same page as the students while accessing additional information. This teacher edition also includes an access code for additional online teacher resources, available from the Cambridge GO website.

The original books were released in 1987 and have been widely used over the past 10 years.The new series has resulted from teachers' reviews using the original series and from changes in syllabuses across Australia. This new book, titled Essential Curriculum and Review 2, differs greatly from the original.Essential Challenge and Review 2 is a response to classroom needs and key syllabus requirements in all Australian States. The book contains 6 units of 6 exercises. All of the key mathematics content areas covered in year 8 are addressed, including problem solving. The material is suitable for either classroom use or as homework assignments. The book is designed for students to write in their responses and, along with the record sheets enclosed, it provides a permanent record of progress. Ease of marking and recording is a feature.