Latest Updates on this site...
- 18/08/10 Results Day tomorrow, so here is some info about Grade Boundaries and UMS scores etc.
- 29/04/10 More Mechanics stuff. This time Dynamics
- 27/04/10 Statics from M1 added
- 25/04/10 Added skeleton for C4 pages. Content coming in the next few days
- 21/04/10 Added some stuff on Moments from M1.
- 18/04/10 Having spent most of the mid-Spring break translating a program I wrote from BB4W (a dialect of BASIC) into JavaScript/PHP I have found a bit of time to add Mechanics skeleton pages. The actual content will follow soon - I hope that the pages will be interactive now that I know enough JavaScript.
- 31/03/10 More online tutorials from the Further Maths Network
- 31/03/10 More D2 fun with the Travelling Salesman Problem.
- 26/03/10 D2 Game Theory has started. Bit of linear programming so do.
- 25/03/10 D2 Allocation has arrived, nearly complete.
- 24/03/10 D2 Transportation has arrived. Just waiting to upload clips.
- 23/03/10 My employer has lent me a lappy that I can draw all over the screen on. This makes video clips a whole lot easier.
- 18/03/10 D2 Decision Maths 2 has started.
- 01/03/10 C3 Exponentials & Logarithms stuff added.
- For those at GHS, I will aim to add to this site topics that have been covered in revision sessions at school. See here for details.
- 25/02/10 S1 has begun to take shape. Representation and Summary of Data is the first section added.
- 03/02/10 Added some Further Maths stuff (Complex Numbers)
- 10/12/09 S1 stuff is on its way!!! Not much there yet but at least I've started.
- 16/06/09 Added 2 exam clips to the C3 algebraic fractions section.
- 15/06/09 More stuff (including a clip) on Functions including inverse and composite functions.
- 15/06/09 Added a couple of clips in the Numerical Methods section to help explain iteration. One more clip of exam questions to come.
- 14/06/09 Added C3 Algebra section. Fractions, Functions, Modulus.
- 10/06/09 Added Numerical Methods (C3) section. More soon...
- 09/06/09 Started to add C3 stuff. Will add bits as I teach them to Y12 starting with Numerical Methods
- 27/05/09 Started to Add Book Reviews. This will take a while
- 06/05/09 Added Clip to Linear Programming section
- 06/05/09 Altered Cascading Style Sheets to enable the menu to scroll down when screen resolution doesn't fit it all in
- 04/05/09 Added Flow Charts text and clip to D1 section
The purpose of this website is to provide a one-stop home for A-level Math.
The intention is that, over time, the site develops to include text, videos, executable files, links and anything else that might prove useful in your quest to achieve grade A in Mathematics.
A few years ago I had the idea of producing videos for students to use as part of revision. My PC at home couldn't cope with the processor-intensive video editing software and just crashed whenever I tried to do anything. A few months later came MathsWatch, an exciting development in revision guides offering students worked examples and spoken explanations of GCSE topics on video files. Essentially this is a much better version of what I had tried to do earlier. But my idea was always aimed at A-level. At the time I was in charge of Post 16 courses at Greenford High School so that is where my ideas were focussed.
MathsWatch have been asked whether they intend to produce a GCE version of their GCSE video CD but say that they have no intention of doing so currently. For this reason I will use video wherever possible or appropriate - if MathsWatch A-Level existed then I wouldn't bother trying to improve on their work.
All of this takes time. Lots of it. Anyone who has ever made a short film knows that it's very time-consuming to get things right. Even writing this rubbish is stopping me from catching up with Emmerdale Farm. I won't keep re-recording until I get things perfect, so expect the odd error (not in the maths hopefully but I will probably end up having to correct myself as I go occasionally, rather than starting from scratch).
This site has been written in XHTML strict and should work on any web browser. It has been tested in Firefox v2 and v3 and IE7 and IE8. Details of how I wrote this website will soon be available in the Other\Programming section.
M D Yarnell
March 2009.