Description
Book SynopsisCreated to support students and teachers through the OCR Core Maths (MEI) courses and designed to create confident mathematicians able to apply their learning to a wide range of situations. // Written in conjunction with the MEI team to ensure the best possible support for the course. // Covers all components from both specifications: Introduction to quantitative reasoning , Critical maths and Statistical problem solving. // Innovative approach places learning in context throughout and focusses on learning through practice with a large number of questions, exercises, activities and exam-style questions. // Real-world examples are used to give students opportunities to apply their learning to different settings including everyday life and the workplace.
Table of ContentsPart 1; Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning; Probability and risk; Working with formulae and spreadsheets; Percentages; Financial problem solving; Roughly speaking; Working with data; Representing the real world graphically; It's Normal; Working with exponentials; Measures and scaling; Part 2; Critical Maths; Fermi estimates; Probability in medicine and law; Is it for real?; Business and risk; Making decisions; Trialling, sampling and bias; Nearly Normal; Statistical problem solving; Evaluating statistical information; Problem solving with data displays and summaries; Problem solving with the Normal distribution; Problem solving using contingency tables and the chi-squared test; Problem solving with correlation
