Appreciate and enjoy your calculator, look what your parents had to use and your grandparents!
Specifically Calculator Questions
Thinking of all my Year 11 students preparing for their first Maths calculator paper. Here are 10 questions to practise using your calculator and various methods. or download the file Revision Specifically Calculator Answers
Love it when the students share something!
r = lnθ (-π/11 < θ ≤ 2π) – it looks like the letter ‘e’ Please share any other Polar Coordinates that draw letters. & when you don’t restrict the domain! Thought I’d mention this one, as we were discussing
Good Luck to everyone taking GCSE’s, IGCSE’s & A-Levels
It is that time of year again already, Good Luck to everyone taking GCSE’s, IGCSE’s & A-Levels.
The equation of a circle
OPEN THE BLOG POST FULLY TO READ THE EQUATION PROPERLY A possible question for the new GCSE, The equation of a circle is x2+y2=25, what is the circumference of the circle? (use π=3) Answer below.
Shading Inequalities
Inspired by an amazing student Also see revision notes.
Questions are more important than answers
My Year 11’s are brilliant at proposing questions – for instance yesterday ‘Why do you MULTIPLY probabilitites when it is ‘AND'(e.g. a red AND a green counter), surely it is ADD?’ so impressed they are not just accepting it.