WAEC MATHEMATICS

This syllabus is divided into nine (6) sections:

1. Number and Numeration
2. Algebraic Processes
3. Mensuration
4. Plane Geometry
5. Trigonometry
6. Statistics and Probability

SECTION I: NUMBER AND NUMERATION

1. Fractions, Decimals, Approximations and Percentages
2. Profit and loss percentage
3. Simple interest, Compound interest and depreciation.
4. Ratio, proportion and rate
5. Number bases
6. Indices, Logarithms and Surds
7. Sets

SECTION II: ALGEBRAIC PROCESSES

1. Simple linear equation
2. Change of subject of formula
3. Quadratic equation
4. Variation
5. Modular arithmetic
6. Inequalities
7. Progression
8. Vectors
9. Matrices and Determinants
10. Differentiation
11. Integration

SECTION III: MENSURATION

1. lengths and areas of plane geometrical figures;
2. lengths of arcs and chords of a circle;
3. Perimeters and areas of sectors and segments of circles;
4. surface areas and volumes of simple solids and composite figures;
    

SECTION IV: PLANE GEOMETRY

1. Properties of angles and lines
2. Polygons: triangles, quadrilaterals and general polygons;
3. Circles: angle properties, cyclic quadrilaterals and intersecting chords;
4. Construction
5. Loci
6. Coordinate Geometry

SECTION V: TRIGONOMETRY

1. Trigonometrical ratios of angels
2. Angles of elevation and depression
3. Bearings
4. Areas and solutions of triangle
5. Graphs of sine and cosine
6. Sine and cosine formulae
7. Longitude and Latitude