These pages provide a sample of solutions to past New South Wales Higher School Certificate examination questions from 2 Unit Mathematics papers.

Their purpose is to present some possibilities for the ways in which such examination solutions may be enhanced by use of new technologies for mathematics teaching and learning, especially the new LiveMath Internet PlugIn for Netscape and Internet Explorer, which is available free from LiveMath.

Sample questions included here are:

• Question 1 from the 1987 2/3 Unit Common paper
• Question 2 from the 1995 2/3 Unit common paper
• Question 3 from the 1996 2/3 Unit common paper

Some of the advantages of this approach lie in the interactive nature of the materials, the fact that they are cross-platform and the potential for multimedia support, which will include graphics and animation.