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Quadratic Properties
'Discover more about the enduring properties of quadratics and their symmetry!' How can you tell from a quadratic function what its going to look like and where its going to be? Are they always symmetrical?...
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Quadratic Links Free
'Use logical deduction to piece this quadratic puzzle together and make lots of quadratic links!' How much information do you need about a quadratic function before you can sketch it? How do you find...
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Dr Who
Recreate this space age animation to explore the mathematics behind it. This task is really easy to explain! Watch the videos below and try to recreate them using dynamic geometry software. Of course,...
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Big & Small Numbers
'What is the biggest number you know? What is the smallest? How can we work with such extreme numbers?' Mathematics knows few limits! We can go on and on describing even bigger and even smaller numbers...
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Exactly
'Explore the role of estimation and rounding in our society - Leading to significant figures' Numbers are a crucial descriptive tool that surround every aspect of our daily lives. How many of the numbers...
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Making Normal
It is a strange thing that the Normal distribution can be used to model so many naturally occuring phenomena, but yet, to create a data set ourselves that has the same properties of a normal distribution...
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Percentage Perception Free
'What do these errors in perception really tell us?' Think about the country you live in. For every 100 people that live in your country, how many of them do you think are Muslim? How many are Christian?...
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SL Presenting Data
This topic is all about these two related tools for helping us look at how a data set is spread out. Learn about filling in cumulative frequency tables, plotting the corresponding curves and using the...
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SL Concept & Notation
This page is an introduction to concept of a function in the context of mathematics. The applicatuions course has a strong focus on modelling which depends much on a through understanding of the concept...
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Modelling World Population Growth Free
Mathematical models are thrown about all over the place but they are often difficult to understand. They actually underpin a huge amount of research and development in our world and it it is great to...