Pre-Police Mathematics Syllabus
Pre-Police Mathematics Syllabus
MATHEMATICAL REASONING
• Mathematical operators.
• Setting up equations.
• Problems about ages.
• Mobiles, meeting time, reach time.
• Chronometry (advances, delays, hours, hands, chimes,
calendars)
• Reasons and proportions.
• Fractions.
• Percentages.
• Variations, combinations, and permutations.
• Rectangle method, false assumption method, rhombus method,
crab method, joint rule.
• Logical reasoning, transmissions, matches, kinship, relationship of
time, constructions.
• First order sequences, quadratic, higher order; term
nth of a sequence.
ARITHMETIC
System of natural numbersℕ)
• Addition, subtraction, multiplication, exponentiation, and division.
• Decimal numbering system.
• Divisibility, prime and composite numbers.
• Greatest common divisor, least common multiple.
• Equations and inequalities.
System of integersℤ)
• Addition, subtraction, multiplication, exponentiation, and division.
• Filing.
• Greater and lesser relationship.
• Equations and inequalities.
System of rational numbersℚ)
• Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, rooting.
• Exponentiation with integer exponent.
• Inverse of a non-zero rational number.
• Fractional numbers.
• Equations and inequalities.
System of real numbers ℝ)
• Non-repeating decimal expressions and irrational numbers.
• Addition, subtraction, multiplication, exponentiation, division, extraction.
• Razones y proporciones aritméticas y geométricas.
• Simple and compound rule of three, percentage; rule of interest and rule of
mix.
ALGEBRA
Polynomials
• Monomials and polynomials; addition and subtraction of polynomials.
• Remarkable products.
• Multiplication and division of polynomials.
• Notable quotients.
• Factorization; linear and quadratic equations.
Systems of linear equations
• System of linear equations with two and three variables.
• Second degree equation system with one unknown.
Functions and progressions
• Operations with algebraic fractions (addition, subtraction, multiplication and
division.
• Algebraic functions: linear affine, quadratic, square root, value
absolute and maximum integer.
• Sequences: arithmetic and geometric progressions.
Radicalization, radicals, and exponent theory.
• Radication.
• Theory of exponents.
• Radicals.
GEOMETRY
• Operations with segments (addition and subtraction).
• Perimeter, area, and sum of the interior angles of regular polygons;
problem solving.
• Trapezoid: angles, segments and their measurement; types of angles; bisector
of an angle.
• Circumference and circle, angles in the circle, inscribed circumference and
circumscribed.
• Median and bisector.
• Symmetrical triangles with respect to an axis.
• Parallel and perpendicular lines.
• Opposite angles by the vertex and adjacent angles.
• Sum of angles in the triangle, exterior angles in the triangle.
• Angles determined by two parallel lines and a line that intersects them
intersects.
• Angular relationships in a triangle, angles formed by the
angle bisectors of a triangle.
• Proportional segments, congruent segments determined by
two lines that intersect with two parallel lines.
• Thales' theorem.
• Similarity of triangles, notable lines in the triangle, relationships
metrics in a triangle.
• Pythagorean theorem.
• Metric relationships in the circle.
• Areas of polygonal and circular regions.
TRIGONOMETRY
• Trigonometric ratios of acute angles, notable triangles, ratios
trigonometric of complementary angles.
• Inverse and reciprocal Pythagorean identities.
• Trigonometric circle, angles in standard position, ratios
trigonometric functions of an angle in standard position, trigonometric ratios
of angles 0°, 90°, 180°, 270°, and 360°; coterminal angles.
• Trigonometric ratios of negative angles; reduction to the first
quadrant.
• Trigonometric identities of the sum and difference of angles.
• Trigonometric functions.