Name: Essential Maths Skills for AS/A Level Design and Technology
Price: 21.59 USD
ISBN: 9781510417045

Hodder Education

Peter Warne, Chris Walker

Essential Maths Skills for AS/A Level Design and Technology

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Don't let your students miss out on easy marks, prepare them for those Maths questions with this essential guide.

Written specifically to build students' confidence in maths and to prepare them for the more challenging mathematical requirements which make up 15% of the new DT specifications.

- Improve confidence with structured progression of worked examples, guided and non-guided questions, and worked solutions for every question
- Strengthen students' maths skills and subject understanding with worked examples and
practice questions all embedded in the subject context
- Develop exam confidence with exam-style maths questions
- An essential tool throughout the AS and A Level course with every maths skill mapped to
subject topics, and applicable to every major exam board
- Reviewed by subject and maths expert Glyn Granger (former D&T chief examiner)

Language

English

ISBN

9781510417045

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Contents

Introduction

1 Using numbers and percentages

1.1 Units, powers, standard form and accuracy

1.2 Working with formulae and equations

2 Ratios and percentages

2.1 Ratios and scaling of lengths, area and volume

2.3 Working with percentages

3 Calculating surface areas and volumes

3.1 Properties and areas of two-dimensional shapes

3.2 Surface area of three-dimensional objects

3.3 Volume of three-dimensional objects

3.4 Density and mass of three-dimensional objects

4 Use of trigonometry

4.1 Pythagoras

4.2 Sine, cosine and tangent

4.3 Sine and cosine rules

5 Use and analysis of data, charts and graphs

5.1 Presenting data

5.2 Statistics

5.3 Group data, estimates, modal class and histograms

5.4 Presenting market and user data

5.5 Interpreting and extracting appropriate data

5.6 Interpret statistical analyses to determine user needs

6 Coordinates and geometry

6.1 Coordinates in geometric shapes

6.2 Present accurate two-dimensional and three-dimensional drawings

7 Anthropometrics and probability

7.1 Use data related to human scale and proportion

7.2 Understand dimensional variations in mass-produced components

7.3 Probability of defects in batches and reliability

Appendix

Specification coverage