National 5
Applications of Mathematics · National 5
Everyday maths in real contexts: finance, statistics, measurement and problem solving, without the algebra of the main course.
What Applications of Mathematics is about
Applications of Mathematics keeps the focus on maths you will actually use: managing money, interpreting statistics, measuring and planning, and solving problems set in everyday and workplace contexts, with far less algebra than Mathematics itself.
What it offers you
It gives practical numeracy and data confidence that employers and colleges ask for, and it pairs well with Business, Geography and the sciences.
Papers & marking schemes
SQA publishes the most recent five years of papers. Older papers and specimen papers live on their site — open Applications of Mathematics National 5 on sqa.org.uk.