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Practice Tasks

1) TRIGONOMETRY: Revision tests, assignments, text exercises Revision Sheet Trigonometry

A typical RAT Question

Help Sites / Tutorials

Handling Data from the BBC Bitesize

• Collecting and Recording Data 1
• Collecting and Recording Data 2
• Representing Data 1
• Representing Data 2
• Representing Data 3
• Measures of Average/Comparing Distributions
• More on Averages
• Probability 1
• Probability 2
• Probability 3

• More advanced tutorials from the BBC on handling data
• S-Cool Tutorials for handling data for the UK exams
• Mean, Median, Mode and Range - definitions, examples and interactive feedback

Sources of Data

What’s in a name?

• BabyNames.com.au & by categories
• NSW Interactive Name Popularity grapher – or popular names from 1995 – 2007

Birth and the numbers of Life

• NSW Births & Deaths statistics (multiple births)
• Consumer Price Index – G2 (xls file) from the Reserve Bank of Australia Stats page
• UCLA Statistics Case Studies
• Stats by categories from Canada (could be compared with ABS Census Data?)
• ABS Tables (Census data by post code)

Interesting Links

BBC Magazine shows how percentages can be used to mislead

• Putting percentages in context
• What the survey didn’t say…
• Just what is average?
• The myth of counting

The links below were collected based on students’ interests. We’re using this handout to focus the activity.

Cars

• Cost of running a car – from the RACV
• Operating Costs of Popular Cars – from the NRMA
• Cost of running a car skyrockets – from News.com.au
• Car insurance calculator – from Bingle
• Cost of running a motorbike (2003) – pdf download (or see others)

VW Kombi Vans

• Kombi vans from CarsGuide – Australia
• Kombi vans from TradingPost – Australia
• Vanagons from the AutoTrader – USA
• VW Vans from eBay – USA

Music

• Hitting the Big Time in the Australian Rock Scene – the Vines & the Avalanches
• How to Create an Awesome Rock Band – from WikiHow
• The Emergence of the Arctic Monkeys – Wikipedia

Buying a House

• Property Guide – from the Sydney Morning Herald
• Finance Calculators – from the SMH
• Dream or nightmare? – True life guide
• An introduction to buying property in Australia – from JustLanded
• The Rent vs. Buy Calculator – java app

Careers & Income

• Ultimate Guide to Video Game Careers
• The Writing School – Freelance Journalism
• Video game players score big money in South Korea
• Average salaries in Australia – from myCareer
• Tradesman, painter & building employees’ awards – NSW
• The Musicians’ (Live Performance) (State) Consolidated Award – Australian Government Workchoices
• In the Sights of Suits – record labels look for next Silverchair
• Hard Acts to Follow – Neon & Vines
• Sony snaps up Dean and Jess – from Australian Idol runner-up to record contract

Here are some interesting links we might look at:

• “Death by Caffeine” – What do you drink? How much do you weigh? How much do you drink? Gulp!
  
• Caffeine in drinks database – compare your “poison”
• Man’s heart stops after Red Bull overdose
• Red Bull Under Investigation

“Life Lessons”

• Drink cost calculator – How much would you spend in a year? How much would you save if you bought from a store, not a machine? Did you know you can buy with your phone?
• Alcohol Poisoning – Watch out for your mates.
• Big Brother or Big Mother? – phone payments provide data tracking.
• Compound Interest Calculator

More About the Environment

• How many plastic bags are used? (12,000/sec in the US)
  
• The Real Cost of Free Plastic Bags
  

  

Use this image (or a closer version) to

SEE-THINK-WONDER

1. What do you see?
2. What do you think about that?
3. What does it make you wonder?

This information comes from this amazing artist.

(you could also try this page)

from the land of the Incas

• The Butterfly Theorem
• Triangles and squares
• The School of Athens

Interactive Tools

• JAVA Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles – from the Geometry Page
• Explorelearning’s Gizo Catalog for College level Geometry

Other cool examples

• Geometry Web page
• Geometry in Action – huge page of links on real world applications of geometry

Welcome to The Infinite! This is where we find out our learning style (Visual, Read/Write etc…), Interisting info on a variety of subjects and can make our own posts.

These sites have some good info:

Chaos Theory

More Chaos Theory

The Mosquito ringtone, which can not to be heard by all adults, is not a question of how old you are but a question of how good you’re hearing is. So when you can’t hear it you arn’t old you’re hearing is just deteriating as it normally does!

What interests you? You can achieve the greatest success by choosing your own topics to explore, developing some expertise in the area, and connecting with people who share the interest. All possible on the web and fron “The Infinite.”

Based on some questions and interest I saw in calss this week, here are some links you might want to explore.

The Mosquito Ring Tone

• My short post on the Mosquitone (AKA “Teen Buzz“)
  
• The Mosquito Ring Tone: This Adult Can Hear It!
• Add to this Wikipedia stub!

Physics and Science

• “Twisted Physics” – from science writer Jennifer Ouellette (appropriate?)
• Why Does E=mc²? – an interesting post from a university professor (at cosmic variance)
• New Scientist – podcasts (like Brain & Games)
• E = mc² Explained – NOVA has 10 experts explain Einstein’s big idea (podcasts)

Enormity & The Infinte

• Nikon’s Universcale
• Stephen Hawking’s Universe
• Official String Theory Page

Gadgets

• What will the cool teen be wearing in three years? – (design your own)
  
• Wired’s Gadget Lab Blog
• Engadget

So Cool!

• Universe, by Jonathan Harris (requires Java Run time)
• Leonardo’s Machines
• Interactive Maths Concepts (shockwave)
• The Elegant Universe

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