Jacaranda Maths Quest 12 General Mathematics Units 3&4 for Queensland 2E learnON & Print

The Jacaranda Maths Quest for Queensland series has been entirely updated for the revised Queensland Senior Syllabus. Created by experienced Queensland teachers, the new Maths Quest for Queensland series provides all the tools to help your students progress and achieve success.

Available now in learnON, Australia's most powerful online learning platform, which brings trusted Jacaranda content to life.

Visible learning and accessibility

• Each lesson is mapped directly to the revised Queensland Senior Syllabus, ensuring 100% coverage for teachers.
• Lessons clearly labelled [complex] to differentiate complex content from the revised Queensland Senior Syllabus.
• Each lesson is scaffolded using three question types — simple familiar, complex familiar and complex unfamiliar — to prepare students for assessment.

Unparalleled assessment support

• Students access chapter summaries as well as review exercises and unit reviews, each with sample responses.
• Students access auto-marked quick quizzes in every lesson with fully worked solutions.
• A custom test‑builder can be filtered by unit, differentiation and question type.

Step-by-step approach to problem-solving and modelling tasks

• NEW! Practical student guide, stepping them through how to approach and complete problem-solving and modelling tasks.
• Bank of quarantined assessment tasks, including teaching advice to assist teachers to create quality problem‑solving and modelling tasks.

More than a textbook

learnON is everything you need to prepare and deliver effective lessons in one place.

• Engage students with a multimodal learning experience, including videos and interactivities.
• Save time assessing, with ready-made auto-marked question sets, chapter tests and practice assessments with sample responses.
• Identify and act on areas of weakness early, with instant reports and learning data.
• Edit the course content to customise student learning and reduce cognitive load.

Table of Contents

The new jacTUTOR vi
Learning with learnON vii
Teaching with learnON xii
Acknowledgements xiii
Problem-solving and modelling task guide (online only)

UNIT 3 BIVARIATE DATA AND TIME SERIES ANALYSIS, SEQUENCES AND

EARTH GEOMETRY 1

TOPIC 1 BIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS 1

1 Identifying and describing associations between two variables 3

TOPIC 2 BIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS 2

2 Fitting a linear model to numerical data, and association and causation 45

TOPIC 3 TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

3 Time series analysis 93

TOPIC 4 GROWTH AND DECAY IN SEQUENCES

4 The arithmetic sequence 163

5 The geometric sequence 199

TOPIC 5 EARTH GEOMETRY AND TIME ZONES

6 Earth geometry and time zones 231

PRACTICE ASSESSMENT 1

Problem-solving and modelling task (online only)

PRACTICE ASSESSMENT 2

Unit 3 Examination

UNIT 4 INVESTING AND NETWORKING 267

TOPIC 1 LOANS, INVESTMENTS AND ANNUITIES 1

7 Compound interest loans and investments 269

TOPIC 1 LOANS, INVESTMENTS AND ANNUITIES 1

TOPIC 2 LOANS, INVESTMENTS AND ANNUITIES 2

8 Perpetuities, and present and future value of annuities 297

TOPIC 3 GRAPHS AND NETWORKS

9 Graphs and networks 339

TOPIC 4 NETWORKS AND DECISION MATHEMATICS 1

TOPIC 5 NETWORKS AND DECISION MATHEMATICS 2

10 Networks and decision mathematics 397

PRACTICE ASSESSMENT 3
Unit 4 Examination

PRACTICE ASSESSMENT 4
Units 3 & 4 Examination

Glossary (online only)