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Past calculator papers ( higher paper 6)

These papers were set when there used to be an intermediate paper, so it has more top end stuff. The hardest questions are at the end of the paper. Each pair is a paper and its mark scheme.

https://eiewebvip.edexcel.org.uk/Reports/Confidential%20Documents/0506/5525_06_que_20050615.pdf

https://eiewebvip.edexcel.org.uk/Reports/Confidential%20Documents/0506/5525_06_rms_20050625.pdf

https://eiewebvip.edexcel.org.uk/Reports/Confidential%20Documents/0606/5525_06_que_20060612.pdf

https://eiewebvip.edexcel.org.uk/Reports/Confidential%20Documents/0606/5525_06_rms_20060823.pdf

https://eiewebvip.edexcel.org.uk/Reports/Confidential%20Documents/0711/5525_06_que_20071109.pdf

https://eiewebvip.edexcel.org.uk/Reports/Confidential%20Documents/0711/5525_06_rms_20080116.pdf

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

Year 11 Div 1 sign in here please

Sorry Rachel, you got here before me!!

Predictions for the calculator paper

Dear all,

I hope the first paper went well, it seemed like a good paper with lots of very do-able questions.

I’ve been thinking about the second paper and what topics are likely to come up. The following list is what I think might (and I want to stress the word ‘might’) be in the second paper.  I have [...]

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Yr 11 – Revision Material

Well Done to all those girls who attended the revision session today – As promised here are all the past exam questions and answers. 

NUMBER (Non Calculator) Qs and Ans

NUMBER (Calculator) Qs and Ans

ALGEBRA Qs and Ans

SSM Qs and Ans

DATA HANDLING Qs and Ans

 

Happy Easter and enjoy revising!

Miss D

Maths of the Credit Crunch…

For those wanting to get to the figures behind the news, there’s an excellent article here on the BBC, with a link to a good podcast about the recent financial turmoil. Seems like Mathematicians may be partially to blame /-(

Maths’ Dirty Secret: The Incompleteness Theorems

A brilliant programme looking at Godel’s theorems, which proved once and for all that Mathematics would never be able to exist without paradoxes – results which shocked the academic world to its core.

From the BBC, here.

Polygons and their exterior angles

Here is a website that clearly shows how and why the sum of the exterior angles is always 360 degrees. Try it – it’s really a good one.

angles.html
Hope that it helps.

MW

Mrs Tibble’s Year 11 – Moving Averages

The graph we used in the lesson on moving averages is here to download!

Year 11 Mrs Tibble’s group 2008

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