Patrick Andrews – Page 9

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Maths anxiety?

It turns out that if to recognise and accept that you are anxious about maths, you can deal with the problem and go on to excel in the subject.

Here is one paper which discusses the issue and here‘s a later one.

Can this get any more fun…?

Here is some stuff about the binomial theorem.

This is a good place to grasp exponentiation and marvel at Euler’s formula.

What happens when the rate of change of x depends on the value of x itself?

Discover some answers here.

Even if you have to set up a (free) New York Times account to get access to this example, I think this is an interesting enough reason to do so.

SQA – NQ – Past Papers and Marking Instructions. It’s worth taking a particular look at the rules which examiners have to follow.

Some background material on vectors and matrices.

How can anyone learn anything within an education system which is solely about examinations?

In Hong Kong, the pressure is so great that tutors have become rather sad celebs.

I can’t see this ever happening in Scotland, thank goodness.

Hmm….not sure which government genius thought this one up.

Here is a plan which seems unlikely ever to take off.

What happens when you try to take the square root of -1?

Here are some useful examples.