Textbook resources
Identifying functions: Section text (PDF) - first five pages of the chapter.
Question resources
When using these resources remember that productive practice is the most effective method to use:
- Use Century to ensure you have mastered the necessary skills
- Choose some questions from the exam questions folder
- If you have difficulties with a question then go back to Century to relearn the required skill
- If you had difficulties then retry the question after a few days to ensure that you have retained the skill
How to use this page (video - 1 min).
Visit the Maths Department Test Preparation page for more tips.Key Points
You need to be able to:
- Understand function notation
- State the domain and range of a function
- Find the value of a function for a given value of x
- Find x for a given value of a function
- Compose functions (combine them)
- Find the inverse of a function
Resources
Worked examples
- 3H January 2014 Q20 Functions - a video going through a typical exam question (5 minutes)
The following resources are below on this page:
- Exam questions (folder) - questions from previous exam papers. Each question is a separate PDF. The answers are in the "Answers" document (Word) in the folder.
- Century - A list of applicable Century nuggets. Aim to be fluent in answering all of these.
- Likely questions - Overview of the questions likely to come up (video - 4 minutes). Note that the first question has now been made into a separate video (see above).
- Next steps - What you need to do now.
- Skills needed - A list of the skills from previous topics used in this topic.