Logarithms – when adding is multiplying (Classpad)
This unit aims to provide a simple/useful way to thing about logarithms when first meting them.
We use two examples of “hard” to graph data (due to the extreme range in the values) to alert students to the idea of thinking about a number as its power, as opposed to its absolute value.
The rest of the unit aims to establish a way to think about calculating with logarithms that will set a sound foundation for later on and that builds on their knowledge of ‘indices’ from previous years.
Category:
Replacement Units
Technology:
CLASSPAD 300/330
CP045 Composite Functions
Define f(x) and g(x), then find f(g(1)), graph g(f(x)) and find all h(x) where g(f(x))=g(h(x)).
Category:
'How to' on Classpad/CAS
Technology:
CLASSPAD 300/330, CLASSPAD FXCP400
ClassPad Top Tips for Exams – Collection 1
Using a ClassPad in an examination? Make sure you are familiar with these tips on ClassPad use.
This first collection of tips are:
* Tip #1 – Exact calculation taking too long? Interrupt it and calculate a decimal approximation.
* Tip #2 – Getting numerical results for an algebraic calculation? Clear any numerical values previously assigned to variables.
* Tip #3 – Solve for a parameter using a previously created user defined function
* Tip #4 – Evaluate an ‘improper’ definite integral (integrand not defined at endpoints)
All tips are presented in easy-to-follow video format
This collection also includes a video on how to create user defined function, a very useful approach to frequently performed calculations.
Category:
VCE Resources
Technology:
CLASSPAD 300/330, CLASSPAD FXCP400
Financial Mathematics – Further Mathematics – 2016 and beyond.
Below you can download a set of notes that summarise the professional learning workshop conducted at the MAV offices on October 27, 2015. The workshop aimed to provide support to teachers on new VCCA Further Mathematics course to begin in Victoria in 2016.
Category:
VCE Resources
Technology:
CLASSPAD 300/330, CLASSPAD FXCP400
Numerical Methods, Simulation, Sampling Distributions and the Confidence Interval for p.
These notes, programs and eActivities support the support workshops run in September 2016 in Victoria.
The workshops aimed to provide support for the use of the Casio ClassPad in the teaching and learning of the Bisection method, Newton’s Method, simulation and Sampling Distributions and the Confidence Interval for p, as set out in the VCAA Study Design for Mathematical Methods.
Category:
VCE Resources
Technology:
CLASSPAD 300/330, CLASSPAD FXCP400