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.
Ada Lovelace
Thank you to my dear friend for sharing this inspirational mathematician from the 19th century. She is credited with creating the first computer program! Wow! before they were even invented. Babbage(another famous mathematician) said of her ‘Forget this world and
Inspiring when a student teaches you something new!
So impressed with my student yesterday teaching me the great way to recall sin and cos of 0°, 30°, 45°, 60° & 90° Also see the revision page and scroll down.
Happy Birthday to Passion4Maths!
Happy Birthday to Passion4Maths, website created on 13th March 2016 – thank you to everyone who has contributed with posts, advice or just visiting.
Maths Questions
Well done to everyone who is using the website Help! page. I am setting up this Blog page to use for immediate comments to any questions.
Exam season fast approaching!
Where has the year gone? Exam season is fast approaching; I am preparing revision notes(GCSE, FP2) & revision classes have started at school. Only five weeks to the Easter holiday and the diary is full! Pleased to say that all
Trigonometry
Great work from my students today, comparing different areas of Trigonometry which we now know is just measuring triangles.