Year 11: VCE Specialist Mathematics

Listed Mathematics areas of study at Units 1 and 2, in the words of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA), with the practice on this site that covers it. Checked against the source on 7 September 2026.

VCE Mathematics Study Design accredited from 2023. Unit 1 has two areas of study and Unit 2 has four; the text of each is the study design's own.

6areas of study
79skills mapped
100%have practice

Coverage is the percentage of listed areas of study with at least one linked practice skill; it does not measure how fully every part of an entry is practised. A skill can practise more than one areas of study, so some appear more than once below.

Unit 1

U1 AoS 1Algebra, number and structureIn this area of study students cover the development of formal mathematical notation, definition, reasoning and proof applied to number systems, graph theory, sets, logic, and Boolean algebra, and the development of algorithms to solve problems.
U1 AoS 2Discrete mathematicsIn this area of study students cover the study of sequences, series, and first-order linear difference equations, combinatorics, including the pigeon-hole principle, the inclusion-exclusion principle, permutations and combinations, combinatorial identities, and matrices.

Unit 2

U2 AoS 1Data analysis, probability and statisticsIn this area of study students cover the study of linear combinations of random variables and the distribution of sample means of a population, with the use of technology to explore variability of sample means.
U2 AoS 2Space and measurementIn this area of study students cover trigonometry and identities, rotation and reflection transformations of the plane and vectors for working with position, shape, direction and movement in the plane and related applications.
U2 AoS 3Algebra, number and structureIn this area of study students cover the arithmetic and algebra of complex numbers, including polar form, regions and curves in the complex plane and introduction to factorisation of quadratic functions over the complex field.
U2 AoS 4Functions, relations and graphsIn this area of study students cover an introduction to partial fractions; reciprocal and inverse circular functions and their graphs and simple transformations of these graphs; locus definitions of lines, parabolas, circles, ellipses and hyperbolas and the Cartesian, parametric and polar forms of these relations.

Other Year 11 skills

Year 11 skills not currently linked to an entry on this page. These may include revision, extension practice, or skills still awaiting a curriculum mapping.