SSS 2: every topic

Every topic a child covers in SSS 2 under the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council, as the app teaches it. 42 topics across 16 subjects: Reading, 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 Nigeria (NERDC) programme rather than reworded.

Reading

20 topics in Reading this year.

Reading and Comprehension

• Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.
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• Read a passage with understanding and answer questions on it.

Mathematics

8 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 SSS 2: factorising a quadratic, 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 SSS 2: solving by elimination, solving by substitution, checking the pair.

Trigonometry

• Years 10 to 12: sine, cosine and tangent, and the two triangles the exact values come from. At SSS 2: 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 SSS 2: the nth term of an arithmetic sequence, 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 SSS 2: gradient from two points, the equation of a line, parallel and perpendicular, functions and transformations.

Number in senior years

• Years 10 to 12: very large and very small numbers, indices and surds, handled without a calculator. At SSS 2: standard form, 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 SSS 2: 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 SSS 2: 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 SSS 2: a sustained project, working to a set brief, critical study, preparing a portfolio.

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 SSS 2: 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 SSS 2: 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 SSS 2: 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 SSS 2: 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 SSS 2: 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 SSS 2: 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 SSS 2: 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 SSS 2: 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 SSS 2: studying a whole text, poetry comparison, unseen texts, literary technique, building an essay argument, using evidence, context, writing to time, spoken language.

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 SSS 2: 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 SSS 2: 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 SSS 2: 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 SSS 2: cell division, dna and inheritance, enzymes, homeostasis, respiration and photosynthesis, natural selection, quantitatively.

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