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Calculus

Differentiating functions

Using differentiation to investigate the nature and properties of functions

  • Further skills in this strand
    • Stationary Points and Their Nature1 official requirement
    • Tangents1 official requirement
    • Increasing and decreasing functions1 official requirement
    • Curve Sketching Using Calculus1 official requirement

Integrating functions

  • Further skills in this strand
    • Basic integration1 official requirement
    • Integration of Bracket Powers2 official requirements
    • Trigonometric Integration2 official requirements
    • Differential equations2 official requirements

Using integration to calculate definite integrals

  • Further skills in this strand
    • Definite integrals1 official requirement

Applying differential calculus

  • Further skills in this strand
    • Optimisation3 official requirements
    • Greatest and least values on closed intervals1 official requirement
    • Rates of change3 official requirements

Applying integral calculus

  • Further skills in this strand
    • Area Between a Curve and the Axis3 official requirements
    • Area Between Curves or a Line and a Curve3 official requirements
Reasoning across the course

These requirements develop through contextual skills rather than separate learning paths.

Interpreting a situation and identifying a strategy

Interpreting a situation where mathematics can be used and identifying a strategy, p9: analysing a situation and identifying an appropriate use of mathematical skills

Mapped through: Optimisation, Rates of change, Area Between a Curve and the Axis, Area Between Curves or a Line and a Curve.

Explaining a solution and relating it to context

Explaining a solution and, where appropriate, relating it to context, p9: explaining why a particular solution is appropriate in a given context

Mapped through: Optimisation, Rates of change, Area Between a Curve and the Axis, Area Between Curves or a Line and a Curve.

Source: Higher Mathematics course specification, May 2023 (version 3.0), Scottish Qualifications Authority. Confirmed current by Qualifications Scotland.