Tasmania TCE Everyday Adult Standard - Mathematics study guide
Tasmania TCE Everyday Adult Standard - Mathematics · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The Tasmanian Certificate of Education (TCE) requires students to meet an Everyday Adult Standard in Mathematics, alongside standards in reading, writing and communication and in using computers and the internet. It is not a standalone exam you sit on a set date. The Tasmania TCE Everyday Adult Standard - Mathematics study guide has 5 sections and about 1,899 words.
01Number and Quantity in Everyday Contexts
This domain tests whether you can work confidently with the numbers that turn up in daily life: whole numbers, decimals, fractions, percentages, ratios, rates and simple proportion. You should be able to round sensibly, estimate before calculating, convert between fractions, decimals and percentages, and use place value to judge whether an answer is reasonable.
317 words, about 2 min02Measurement
Measurement questions ask you to choose appropriate units, convert between them, and calculate lengths, perimeters, areas, volumes and times. You should know the metric prefixes (milli-, centi-, kilo-) and be able to move confidently between millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres, and between millilitres, litres and cubic units.
324 words, about 2 min03Measurement, Space and Shape
This domain concerns the properties of two- and three-dimensional shapes and how they behave in space. You should recognise common shapes, name their features (sides, vertices, faces, edges), understand symmetry, and be able to reason about angles - right angles, straight lines, angles at a point, and angles in triangles and quadrilaterals.
340 words, about 2 min04Data, Statistics and Chance
This domain covers collecting, displaying and interpreting data, and reasoning about chance. You should know the difference between categorical and numerical data, and between discrete and continuous data.
300 words, about 2 min05Money, Finance and Consumer Numeracy
This domain applies arithmetic to money and everyday consumer decisions. You should be able to calculate wages, overtime, deductions, GST, discounts, percentage profit and loss, simple interest and budgets.
618 words, about 3 min