Higher Applications of Mathematics

This page contains free Dynamic Worksheets relating to the new Higher Applications of Mathematics course which was first examined in 2022. If you want resources for other levels of course, go to our Free Resources homepage.

Free Resources:

At-a-glance guide to the course, with links to key SQA documents.
SQA Exam Question Bank: Higher Applications of Maths

Resources that can be purchased in our Online Store:

These are the only resources on this site that require payment. Every other resource listed is entirely free.

A link to resources that can be purchased will be added here if and when they are released. It has not yet been confirmed whether revision notes or prelims will be produced for this course.

Free Solver Spreadsheets (easy ways for teachers to check answers to questions):

Will be added here once produced.

Links to external websites containing real-life data that may be useful:

Population estimates for settlements and localities in Scotland: mid-2020 (National Records of Scotland). How many people live in Scottish villages, towns and cities?
CIA World Factbook (US Government). Data about countries of the world.
Kaggle Datasets (Kaggle). Data sets on a variety of topics. To download, users need to register a free account..
Google Trends (Google). Data about Google searches.
2021 UK Census Data (ONS). Data from the 2021 UK census.
OpenIntro (Openintro). A wide range of datasets across a variety of topics that pupils can browse to find one that interests them.
Scottish Datasets (Scottish Government). Statistics collected by Government.

Free Dynamic Worksheets covering specific topics at this level:

Topic	Subtopic(s)	Resource(s)
Mathematical Modelling		No content yet
Statistics		No content yet
Probability		No content yet
Finance	Interest Rates	Money-04: Effective rates of interest. Calculate decimal multipliers and converting between time periods. (option to decide which time period to convert to: daily, monthly or quarterly)
Planning and Decision Making		No content yet

Free resources from other websites (not Dynamic Maths) offering content that may be useful:

Topic	Resource	Description
Whole Course	SQA Higher Applications of Maths page	SQA webpage for the course. This is the source for all the official course documentation (such as the course specification, specimen papers and coursework instructions).
Mathematical Modelling	Mathematical Modelling for Mathematics Teachers	Online learning from the University of Strathclyde designed for maths teachers, aimed at upskilling teachers ahead of delivering the Higher AoM course. The first course will be delivered online in September/October 2020.
Statistics and Probability	Statistics for Mathematics Teachers	Online learning from the University of Strathclyde designed for maths teachers, aimed at upskilling teachers ahead of delivering the Higher AoM course. The first course ran in summer 2020.
Statistics and Probability	RStudio	An online environment to use the statistical programming language 'R' - there are (free) Open Source versions but also paid versions. To make this work you will also need to have 'R' installed. There are a variety of sources for this: here is one from the University of Bristol.
Statistics and Probability	Teacup Giraffes: Introduction to R	An series of modules introducing 'R' coding for statistics (e.g. using RStudio). Presented in the whimsical context of teacup giraffes.
Statistics and Probability	An Introduction to SQA Statistics Higher Unit	A website of tutorials and resources from the Unviersity of Strathclyde designed to support the teaching of the statistical content. It was written for the Higher Statistics Award, but the content matches Higher Applications of Maths well.
Statistics and Probability	Confidence interval for sample mean simulation
Finance
Planning and Decision Making

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