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Companion to Advanced Mathematics and Statistics
How the publisher describes it:
“This Companion is an ideal source of reference for students in a variety of subjects, including mathematics. It contains all the essential reference information required during AS and A level courses in mathematics and statistics, as well as many Higher Education and vocational courses, in a single handy volume.The book contains a large number of formulae, explanations of the meanings of terms, statistical tables and other useful information.”
Review by Peter Hall
In brief:
This book is a real treasure. I'm pleased to have found it and will be hoping school can afford to buy some copies of it as soon as possible. This would be a great resource for teachers new to A-level, or for those of us who could do with the odd prompt to help us remember things.
“This book is a real treasure.”
This is an A4-sized reference book which has grown out of the Students’ Handbook written for AS and A-level students of MEI students in 1992. It manages to be an ideal text for students to accompany their studies but also for teachers to have on their shelves as a reference tome and as a quick ready reference volume.
The book covers material from GCSE and the first AS core modules right the way up to Further Mathematics. There are units, constants and Greek letters, symbols and many helpful definitions. Pages are titled with titles like Algebra, Curves, Coordinate geometry and so forth. The curve page includes many beautiful curves like the Folium of Descates and the Trisectix of Maclaurin as well as more traditional shapes like the parabola and ellipse.
Obviously there is much pure mathematics — but also mechanics, statistics and decision maths. The statistics section includes many statistics tables ranging from binomial trough to Mann-Whitney tests.
The book finishes with a page explaining 21 examination instructions that students often struggle with, from ‘write down’ to ‘prove’ — each clearly explained with examples. For this page alone this book would be worth students having access to. Finally a clear flow chart to explain the modelling process.
This book is a real treasure. I’m pleased to have found it and will be hoping school can afford to buy some copies of it as soon as possible. This would be a great resource for teachers new to A-level, or for those of us who could do with the odd prompt to help us remember things.
Peter Hall • AST Mathematics, Imberhorne School, East Grinstead
Companion to Advanced Mathematics and Statistics
A Handbook for Users and Students
Stella Dudzic and others
MEI 2007
ISBN-13 978-0-340-959237
£7.99
