Light LearningEvery topic a child covers in Grade 12 under the Compulsory Education Curriculum (2022), as the app teaches it. 23 topics across 15 subjects: Art, Physical education, Health, Computing, Social studies, Music, Drama, Business studies, Economics, Mathematics, English, Writing, Physics, Chemistry, Biology.
This is the real list, not a summary. Each line is one topic in Light Learning, in the words of the China programme rather than reworded.
Mathematics
9 topics in Mathematics this year.
Quadratic equations
- Years 10 to 12: solving x² equations by factorising, and what the two answers mean on the graph. At Grade 12: solving by factorising, the graph of a quadratic.
Simultaneous equations
- Years 10 to 12: two unknowns and two facts, solved together and then checked. At Grade 12: checking the pair.
Trigonometry
- Years 10 to 12: sine, cosine and tangent, and the two triangles the exact values come from. At Grade 12: the three ratios, exact values, finding a missing side, finding a missing angle.
Sequences and series
- Years 10 to 12: finding any term without listing the ones before it, and summing a run of them. At Grade 12: geometric sequences, summing a series.
Straight lines and graphs
- Years 10 to 12: reading a line off two points, and writing the equation that describes it. At Grade 12: the equation of a line, parallel and perpendicular, functions and transformations.
Calculus
- Year 12: the gradient at a point, and the area under a curve, which turn out to be the same idea backwards. At Grade 12: differentiation, rate of change, integration.
Number in senior years
- Years 10 to 12: very large and very small numbers, indices and surds, handled without a calculator. At Grade 12: laws of indices, surds.
Financial mathematics
- Years 10 to 12: the arithmetic of money over time, which is the mathematics most adults actually need. At Grade 12: compound interest, depreciation, loans and repayment.
Statistics and probability in senior years
- Years 10 to 12: spread as well as average, and probability treated as a distribution. At Grade 12: measures of spread, correlation, probability distributions, sampling.
Art
1 topic in Art this year.
Senior art
- Years 10 to 12: sustained personal projects, working to a brief, and writing about art as well as making it. Working at Grade 12: a sustained project, working to a set brief, critical study, preparing a portfolio, exhibiting.
Physical education
1 topic in Physical education this year.
Coaching, officiating and analysis
- Senior work: leading a session, officiating a game, and analysing performance with numbers rather than impressions. At Grade 12: planning a session, officiating properly, analysing performance, training principles, sport and society.
Health
1 topic in Health this year.
Health in the wider world
- Senior work: how health is measured across a population, and what actually changes it. At Grade 12: public health, reading health claims, long-term conditions, health services.
Computing
1 topic in Computing this year.
Senior computing
- Senior work: writing real programs, storing data properly, and the ethics that come with both. At Grade 12: data structures, databases, algorithms and efficiency, testing and validation, computing and society.
Social studies
1 topic in Social studies this year.
Senior humanities
- Senior work: history and geography as arguments made from evidence, and how a state actually functions. At Grade 12: writing a historical argument, population and development, systems of government, global institutions.
Music
1 topic in Music this year.
Senior music
- Senior work: analysing a set piece, composing to a brief, and performing prepared repertoire. At Grade 12: analysing a set work, composing to a brief, performing prepared music, music technology.
Drama
1 topic in Drama this year.
Senior drama
- Senior work: devising, directing, and writing about performance as well as making it. At Grade 12: devising, directing, practitioners and styles, writing about performance.
Business studies
1 topic in Business studies this year.
Senior business
- Senior work: reading real accounts, planning marketing, and judging a decision on the numbers. At Grade 12: ratio analysis, budgeting and forecasting, marketing, employment and ethics.
Economics
1 topic in Economics this year.
Senior economics
- Senior work: markets that fail, policy that tries to fix them, and the trade-offs in both. At Grade 12: market failure, fiscal and monetary policy, international trade, development economics.
English
1 topic in English this year.
Senior English
- Years 10 to 12: whole texts read closely, arguments built and defended, and writing under examination conditions. At Grade 12: studying a whole text, unseen texts, literary technique, building an essay argument, using evidence, context, writing to time.
Writing
1 topic in Writing this year.
Senior writing
- Years 10 to 12: sustained writing that holds an argument, and writing to a specification. At Grade 12: the extended essay, writing to a specification, referencing, editing at length.
Physics
1 topic in Physics this year.
Senior physics
- Years 10 to 12: motion, energy and electricity treated quantitatively, with the equations that go with them. At Grade 12: equations of motion, newton’s laws, momentum, electric circuits, quantitatively, waves and optics, radioactivity.
Chemistry
1 topic in Chemistry this year.
Senior chemistry
- Years 10 to 12: the mole, equations that balance, and reactions predicted rather than remembered. At Grade 12: balanced equations, the mole, bonding, energy in reactions, electrolysis, organic chemistry.
Biology
1 topic in Biology this year.
Senior biology
- Years 10 to 12: cells, inheritance and systems, at the level examinations at sixteen and eighteen ask for. At Grade 12: cell division, dna and inheritance, enzymes, homeostasis, respiration and photosynthesis, natural selection, quantitatively.