Curriculum Shule Direct Kenya Secondary School Form 2 Mathematics Kenya

Mathematics Kenya Form 2 Syllabus

  1. Cubes and Cube Roots
    1. Cubes and Cube Roots
      1. Cubes of numbers by multiplication
      2. Cubes from tables
      3. Cube roots of numbers by factor method
      4. Evaluation of cube and cube root expressions
      5. Application of cubes and cube roots to real life situations
  2. Reciprocals
    1. Reciprocals
      1. Reciprocals of numbers by division
      2. Reciprocals of numbers from tables
      3. Computation using reciprocals
  3. Indices and Logarithms
    1. Indices and Logarithms
      1. Indices (powers) and base
      2. Laws of indices (including positive integers, negative intergers and fractionaal indices
      3. Powers of 10 and common logarithms
      4. Common logarithms: (characteristics, mantissa)
      5. Logarithm tables
      6. Application of common logarithms in multiplication, division and finding roots
  4. Equation of Straight Lines
    1. Equation of Straight Lines
      1. Gradient of a straight line
      2. Equation of a straight line
      3. Th equation of a straight line of the form y = mx + c
      4. The x and y intercepts of a line
      5. The graph of a straight line
      6. Perpendicular lines and their gradients
      7. Parallel lines and their gradients
      8. Equations of parallel and perpendicular lines
  5. Reflection and Congruence
    1. Reflection and Congruence
      1. Lines and planes of symmetry
      2. Mirror lines and construction of objects and images
      3. Reflection as a transformation
      4. Reflection in the Cartesian plane
      5. Direcy and opposite congruency
      6. Congruency tests (SSS,SAS,AAS,ASA and RHS)
      7. Reflection and Congruence
  6. Rotation
    1. Rotation
      1. Properties of rotation
      2. Centre and angle of rotation
      3. Rotation in the Cartesian plane
      4. Rotational symmetry of plane figures and solids (point, axis and order)
      5. Congruence and rotation
      6. Construction of similar figures
      7. Properties of enlargement
      8. Construction of objects and images under enlargement
      9. Enlargement in the Cartesian plane
      10. Linear, area and volume scale factors
      11. Real life situations
  7. Pythagoras Theorem
    1. Pythagoras Theorem
      1. Pythagoras Theorem
      2. Solution of problems using Pythagoras Theorem
      3. Applications to real life situations
  8. Trigonometry
    1. Trigonometry
      1. Tangent, sine and cosine of angles
      2. Trogonometric tables
      3. Angles and sides of a right angled triangle
      4. Sine and cosine of complementary angles
      5. Relationship between tangent, sine and cosine
      6. Trigonometric ratios of special angles 30°, 45°, 60° and 90°
      7. Logarithm of a sine, a cosine and a tangent
      8. Application of trigonometry to real life situations
  9. Area of a Triangle
    1. Area of a Triangle
      1. Area of a triangle A = 1/2 ab sin C
      2. Area of a triangle A = √s(s -a)(s -b) (s -c)
      3. Application to real life situations.
  10. Area of Quadrilaterals and other Polygons
    1. Area of Quadrilaterals and other Polygons
      1. Area of quadrilaterals
      2. Area of other polygons (regular and irregular)
  11. Area of Part of a Circle
    1. Area of Part of a Circle
      1. Area of a sector
      2. Area of a segment
      3. Area of common regions between two circles
  12. Surface Area of Solids
    1. Surface Area of Solids
      1. Surface area of prisms, pyramids, cones, frustrums and spheres
  13. Volume of solids
    1. Volume of solids
      1. Volume of a prism, a pyramid, a cone, a frustrum and a sphere
  14. Quadratic Expressions and Equations
    1. Quadratic Expressions and Equations
      1. Expansion of algebraic expressions
      2. The three quadratic identities
      3. Using the three quadratic identities
      4. Factorisation of quadratic expressions
      5. Solutions of quadratic equations by factor method
      6. Formation and solution of quadratic equations
  15. Linear Inequalities
    1. Linear Inequalities
      1. Inequalities on a number line
      2. Simple and compound inequalities statements
      3. Linear inequality in one unknown
      4. Graphical representaion of linear inequalities
      5. Graphical solutions of simultaneous linear inequalities
      6. Simple linear inequalities from inequality graphs
      7. Inequalities from inequality graphs
  16. Linear Motion
    1. Linear Motion
      1. Displacement, velocity, speed and acceleration
      2. Determining velocity and acceleration
      3. Solve problems involving relative speed
      4. Distance-time graphs
      5. Velocity - time graphs
      6. Interpretation of graphs of linear motion
      7. Relative speed
  17. Statistics
    1. Statistics
      1. Definition of statistics
      2. Collection and organization of data
      3. Frequency distribution tables ( for grouped and ungrouped data)
      4. Grouping data
      5. Mean, mode and median
      6. Representation of data: line graph,bar graph, pie chart, pictogram, Histogram, Frequency polygon
      7. Interpretation of data
  18. Angle Properties of a Circle
    1. Angle Properties of a Circle
      1. Arc, chord and segment
      2. Angles subtended by the same arc at the circumference
      3. Relationship between angle subtended at the centre and angle subtended on the circumference by the same arc
      4. Angle in a semi-circle
      5. Angle properties of a cyclic quadrilateral
      6. Finding angles of a cyclic quadrilateral
  19. Vectors
    1. Vectors
      1. Vector and scalar quantities
      2. Vector notation
      3. Representation of vectors
      4. Equivalent vectors
      5. Addition of vectors
      6. Multiplication of a vector by a scalar
      7. Column vectors
      8. Position vectors
      9. Magnitude of a vector
      10. Midpoint of a vector
      11. Translation vector

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