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Protected: Year 12 and Year 13 – C2 Practice Papers

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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 /-(

Mr Brewin’s Year 12 Stats

Here’s the slides on Regression that we covered today. Becky and Deola – if you could have a look at them and have a go at Ex 7A before next lesson that would be much appreciated.

Also, here’s the worked solutions to the special homework of exam questions on probability. Have a look through them to [...]

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Mr Brewin’s Year 12: Correlation

For those who weren’t there today, and for those who need a copy for notes, I’ve uploaded the presentation here.

Special homework in for Weds, and have a look at Ex 6B too please. Shout here if you need help!

Have a good weekend,

KB

Mr Brewin’s Year 12 – Tree Diagrams and Conditional Probability

The presentation we looked at today is here.

Ex 5E for Friday please. Can someone tell Deola?

Ta,

KB

Year 12 and 13 – ‘More or Less’ BBC Podcast

Excellent weekly radio programme from BBC, looking at the numbers behind the news. This is exactly the sort of stuff that would enrich a university interview, so put it on your podcast list and grab half an hour a week to get smart

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iTunes Podcast

Protected: Year 12 C1 Revision

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Mr Brewin’s Y12 – C1 – Sequences

Here’s the slides from the lesson. Ex 6F please for Weds!

 

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.

Mr Brewin’s Year 12 Stats – C1 Curve Sketching

Great work covering the books

The slides on curve sketching are here. There’s more than you need – goes into the next couple of lessons, so you can read ahead if you like…

Ex 4A and 4B for Friday, plus the special h/w to hand in on paper too.