Please post any questions you have regarding final revision for the exam on 4th May. Remember to include the question if possible (or at lest the Q number and year if from a past paper).
All the best for Tuesday.
Mr T
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Watch this:- Homework A is due Friday 15th Homework B is due Friday 22nd Please post any questions/comments below. A reminder that all answers must be completed in ink – no scoring out!
Prelims are coming very soon – especially paper 1! Please post any questions you have here and remember it’s a very good idea to include the question itself in your post as this will allow whoever replies to do so more easily. I’d also recommend checking out some of the links on the right hand side of the blog. In particular the BBC bitesize and maths revision websites. You can also download the last two years’ exam papers from the link to the SQA website. Mr T Test C Part 2 from the back of S4 cubed is due on Thursday. Please post any questions here. Please post any questions or thoughts relating to the current work on trig graphs, trig equations and trig identities below.
Mr T Is due on Friday 18/09/09 post and questions/points for discussion below. Is due 10 September. Please post your questions and comments here. This homework is excellent preperation for your forthcoming test so I’m hoping to see a big effort from you in this first homework of the session! Mr T We are currently studying the nature of quadratic expressions. Please post any comments and/or questions. Mr T Is due:- Friday 19/06 A reminder that work handed in should be in ink and contain no blanks or scoring out. Any questions below please The blog is back! We are currently working on a number of algebraic skills these include: Equations and inequations with brackets Equations and inequations with fractions Algebraic fractions As ever your questions, thoughts and ideas are eagerly anticipated. Mr T
We’ve been beefing up our formulae for right angled triangles. Post any questions about the following below: Area of a triangle Sine Rule Cosine Rule As promised here are a couple of interesting links the first is the blog mentioned in class which includes the podcasts of discussions with interesting mathematicians. Be warned some of the maths is quite high powered but very interesting nonetheless: http://travelsinamathematicalworld.blogspot.com/ The second is a website describing many of the interesting career options for people who study mathematics, you don’t have to be a teacher or stuck in a room on your own with a candle! http://www.mathscareers.org.uk/ Enjoy! and as ever feel free to comment
Common Factor Difference of Squares Trinomials As always post any questions/comment/queries below. Mr T 1) What percentage of £200 is the same as 20% of £500? 2) Per week Heather earns £25 more than Sandy and £40 more than Gavin. Altogether Heather, Sandy and Gavin earn £910. How much does each person earn per week 3) Paul sells kitchens in the A la Carte showroom. His salary each month is calculated using the formula S = 1000 + 0.04K, where S is his salary in £ and K is the value in £ of the kitchens he has sold. a) What percentage commission does he get on the value of the kitchens he has sold? b) In one month he earned a total of £1800. What was the value of the kitchens he sold? 4) A square and a rectangle have the same area. The rectangle has length 48 cm and breadth 12 cm. What is the perimeter of the square? 5) A farmer left his flock of sheep to his sons. Robert received half the flock, Lewis one third and Edward the rest. Edward received 48 sheep. What size was the farmer’s flock? 6) For medical reasons George walks two miles every day. He walks at an average speed of 3 mph. Over a two week period, how long does she spend walking 7) A group of students is going to the leisure centre. Seven of the group walk and the rest travel by mini-bus. The bus has to make three trips, fully loaded each time. On the way back, eighteen students walk and the mini-bus makes only two trips, fully loaded. a) How many students does the mini-bus hold? b) How many students are there in the group? 9) The average weight of the Royal High 1st XV is 96 kg. The weight of the scrum half is 82 kg. Find the average weight of the other fourteen players. 10) Mr Brown makes a Special Blend of coffee by mixing Kenyan beans and Brazilian beans in the ratio 4:7. He has 20 kg of Kenyan beans and 28 kg of Brazilian beans. What is the maximum weight of the Special Blend he can mix? 11) Dr Doolittle has thirty animals in his care. The push-me-pull-ewes have two heads and four legs. The hopping haggises have one head and three legs. He does a head count and finds he has fifty. What’s the leg count? 12) John has been offered a part-time job. He has to choose which method of payment he prefers. Method 1 Method 2 w = 5h w = 3h + 12 where w is the wage in £ and h is the time in hours.
a) Explain in words how much he is paid in each method b) On the same diagram draw graphs to show each method of payment. c) What advice would you give John? Is on February 5th and 6th. The test will contain questions on:-
SIMILAR SHAPES SIMULTANEOUS EQUATIONS TRIGONOMETRY DISTRIBUTIVE LAW STRAIGHT LINE TIME, DISTANCE & SPEED LENGTH, AREA & VOLUME (PYTHAGORAS) PERCENTAGES INTEGERS & SCIENTIFIC NOTATION FRACTIONS CIRCLE PROPERTIES STATISTICS EQUATIONS & INEQUATIONS
From the revision material the non-calculator part of practice paper A is due Tue 20/01 in your handin homework jotters. The calculator part is due Fri 31/01 in homework jotters.
Please post questions here as usual. LAST MINUTE REVISION – find attached a file of the Reasoning stlye starters used this week A useful and vital way to interpret information or so easy to fiddle and fix as to make them nearly worthless? Please post any comments/questions about our current work in the land of boxplots and standard deviations.
A great many of you produced excellent attempts to the first round of these problems. The second round is out now! Copies will be provided early in the new term but for a sneak preview follow this link http://www.wpr3.co.uk/MC/qmid2.html Solutions to the first set of problems can be found here http://www.wpr3.co.uk/MC/sol_m_1.html Enjoy! When are two objects similar? How does it affect their volume and area? All relevant questions and homework queries below. Is due Monday 5th January. Post any comments/questions below. |
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