Showing posts with label Year 10. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Year 10. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Year 10

Hard Coordinate Geometry question solved using geometry

Friday, April 29, 2011

FACEBOOK QUESTION - YEAR 10 AND YEAR 9

Thanks for bringing this question to us. At first I thought it was obvious but........Facebook Question 2

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Calendar


How about that! Apparently this July there are 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. It only happens every 823 years. Am I right? Let me know.

The Monty Hall Problem

My Year 6's have asked me to explain this. The problem goes like this. There are three boxes. Only one of them has a prize. After you have picked a box, the game show host opens one of the other boxes that has nothing in it (the game show host knows what is in each of the boxes). He then gives you the chance to switch boxes or not. What do you do?

The Monty Hall Problem
(Make sure you have watched the YouTube video first)


The Monty Hall Problem -

Year 10 Parabolas

Year 10, this is a good video showing the transformations of a parabola when you change the coefficients (a, b and c). You will need this for week 2.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Year 9 and Year 10

Mixture word problems and time, distance, speed problems from YouTube


Make 24




The second in our Make 24


Rules:


Use each number once only in any order


Use any of the 4 operators (multiplication, division, subtraction, addition)


You may use brackets





1 3 4 6 = 24





The answer is here. Do NOT look until you have tried for awhile!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Year 10


No more excuses kids. Here's the quadratic formula. Learn it off by heart! (Even better try and derive it from completing the square).