Maths Course for Adults

What you'll learn

Discover your inner mathematician with our mathematics short courses in Sydney.

Did you choose English & the Arts while avoiding Maths and Science in high school?  Find yourself losing track working out your tax and credit card interest?  If mathematical problems get you shaking in your boots, then this maths course will allow you to tackle maths with confidence again.

This maths course will help you understand the beauty of mathematics as, precise, and logical skill set with its indisputable conclusions and infinite applicability.  This course is designed to rebuild and reinforce the knowledge and skills you may or may not have learned at school, this course will reconnect you with the foundations of maths, problem-solving techniques and explore where maths is used every day around the home, in business, outdoors.

Keep your brain in shape and brush up on some long-lost skills with this compact Maths for Adults course in Sydney!

Learning outcomes

By the end of this Maths Course, you should be able to:

• Analyze and logically dissect problems, discover patterns, and construct strategies to solve problems
• Understand maths around the home and as a shopper
• Gain an enhanced understanding of time, distance, and speed
• Understand how to solve problems involving different time zones and find time through knowledge of longitude
• Understand statistics and probability in everyday life

Course content

What will be covered in this Maths Course for Adults?

The foundations of working with numbers

• What is a number?
• Fractions & Percentages
• Be aware of different problem-solving techniques
• What makes an equation an equation
• Patterns and puzzles
• Sequences and series

Maths in the physical world

• Rates, Speed, Distance, Time, and more
• Basic geometry

Crunching data into information

• Understanding graphs
• Introduction to statistics
• Understanding probability

Maths around the home & elsewhere

• Calculating percentages
• Area & volume calculations
• Perimeters of a space

Financial mathematics

• Home loan calculations
• The mathematics of superannuation
• Shares and calculating their value
• Credit card interest calculations

Intended audience

Who is this Maths Course for Adults for?

This mathematics course is best suited to:

• Those who found maths difficult at school and have avoided it throughout their adult life
• Those who have to dust off the cobwebs and brush up on things you have lost along the way or never quite grasped
• Those looking to apply simple mathematics to basic but important things in their lives such as stocks and credit card interest
• Those attempting career courses that required maths, but the course doesn’t review maths.

Course materials

What to bring to class

• A calculator or phone with a calculator function
• Pencil & paper with rubber for working out (essential)