Maths Resources (page 39)

Place value underpins everything children do when working with number in primary school. Understanding place value means that children are aware of the size of a digit from its place...

What is statistics? Statistics is the use of information (known as data) to make a decision where the outcome is not certain. What type of decision? Well statistics can and is use...

Multiplying two complimentary numbers(numbers which are same except the right most digits and the right most digits add to 10). Some of the complimentary pairs are 23 and 27, 44 and 4...

The triangle of most interest is the right-angled triangle. The three sides of a right angled triangle are, Adjacent,Hypotenuse and opposite. Adjacent is adjacent (next to) to the ...

Differentiation Rule: Bring down the power and reduce the power by 1. y = 14x + 12 Finding turning points (maximum/ minimum values) A turnin...

Binomial Theorem The Binomial Theorem is used to expand out brackets of the form , where n is a whole number. n Coefficients 0 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 3 1 3 3 1...

. Binomial distribution Imagine a situation where an "experiment" is repeated a fixed number (n) of times and where the probability (p) of a "success" remains constant. Then number ...

Revision Topic 6: Transformations The OCR syllabus says that candidates should understand the use of 2×2 matrices to represent certain geometrical transformations in the x-y ...

Colour is an extremely complicated and difficult phenomenon. Here is something that most people don`t understand about colour... Objects don`t have colour! They all have surfaces that...

Why is maths so important to scientists, such as physicists, chemists and biologists? The answer is that everything in both the academic and mundane world involves maths. Every object...