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Y13 Trig Questions – Solutions

Get them here. No sneaking at them first before you’ve really had a go!

Enjoy!

Mr Brewin’s GCSE Stats – Worksheet Answers

Here’s the answers for the worksheets I gave you for Christmas!

Enjoy

Mr Brewin’s Y10 Stats GCSE

As promised, some links you can explore over the weekend to do with reaction times:

http://www.humanbenchmark.com/tests/reactiontime/index.php
This site gives a simple on screen test with the top 100 results recorded.

http://www.sciencejoywagon.com/explrsci/media/reflex.htm
This site provides a simple test for sight and sound.

http://www.break.com/index/sheepshooting.html
This game gives you times based on recognising movement.

http://reflex.sosocial.net/reactionbutton.php
Start/Stop button test

http://getyourwebsitehere.com/jswb/rttest01.html
Traffic Light test. Top 5 scores are available for [...]

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Mr Brewin’s S1 – The Spirit Level

The slides I was talking about are embedded below. They are from a debate between the authors of The Spirit Level (you can buy it here) and their detractors (who have been shown to be wrong, and wanting to dispute the evidence for ideological reasons). The audio of the debate can be found here.
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Mr Brewin’s Y12 S1 – Correlation

The powerpoint on correlation and PMCC can be found here.

The ‘Joy of Stat’s programme I was talking about is on iPlayer here (need to watch it soon as it’ll soon expire) and the ‘More or Less’ podcast can be found on their website too. Well worth listening to.

Year 7 revision questions

Hi year 7,

Here are the revision questions that I set as homework in the lesson today.

Exam revision Jan 2011

And here  are some of the answers to our questions from the lesson

Hope it helps!

C1 – Support for year 12 revision

Dear Year 12,

As you have your exam coming up please have a look at this revision guide that I am putting together. It will include all the new material covered in the C1 course. It has links to really good web sites – The Khan Academy and Exam Solutions – both are really good.

Intro 

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Year 11 Past Papers

Here are some links through to the Edexcel website for you as it can be a tricky site to navigate around!

http://www.edexcel.com/migrationdocuments/QP%20Current%20GCSE/June%202009/1380_3H_que_20090518.pdf

http://www.edexcel.com/migrationdocuments/QP%20Current%20GCSE/June%202009/1380_4H_que_20090601.pdf

http://www.edexcel.com/migrationdocuments/QP%20Current%20GCSE/June09-ms/1380_GCSE_Mathematics_msc_20090714.pdf