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In general, Applications and Interpretation covers a broad range of materials, but Analysis and Approaches covers a narrower range in greater depth. Below lists the main topics in each course, by color code from 2014-2020 syllabus Studies, SL and HL (including Further HL). New topics are italicized. HL includes all SL topics of the same course. Common topics in all new Math courses: Algebra: scientific notation, arithmetic/geometric progression, compound interest, annual depreciation, exponents/logarithms Functions: lines, graph of a function, domain/range, definition of inverse, identifying extremas, intercepts, symmetry, zeros, asymptotes Geometry/Tr…
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IBS has a system set up which allows you to enter in various bits of code and have them appear as mathematical symbols called Tex tags. For instance, rather than writing x^3, you can write . This is a quick guide explaining how to make this work for some of the more common Maths symbols you need for the IB. It may also come in handy as a way to copy/paste in as graphics for IAs, where relevant. For a more comprehensive overview, please take a look at this site: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Mathematics Additional Links (kindly suggested by Chrypton) Detexify - This site contains a white drawing area where you can draw a math symbol that you don't know the LaTeX c…
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Hello people! I have seen Biology, Chemistry and Physics help threads; I figured I would create one for Mathematics too. I'm willing to help any Mathematics student with their problems or doubts. I am sure there would also be some other helpers, so if you have any Math question just post here unless they are questions regarding IA tasks. Questions regarding IA tasks must be posted in the correct IA threads and not here. Questions from textbooks, worksheets or even past year papers may be asked here no matter whether they are for Math HL, SL or even Studies. Please also include which Math level you are taking so the solution and explanation would be suitable with the exten…
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I haven't seen any IA tips around so I guess I would share some tips gathered from my Mathematics HL teacher's suggestions, some IBSurvival members' suggestions, my own knowledge and my own experiences. Cover Page Unless this is set by your school, I recommend that your cover page includes: • School Name (e.g. Sekolah Tiara Bangsa – ACS) • School Crest, if available • Subject & Level (e.g. Mathematics HL) • Portfolio Type (e.g. Portfolio Type I) • Portfolio Title (e.g. Patterns Within Systems of Linear Equations) • Candidate Name (e.g. Desy Kristianti) • Candidate Number (e.g. 001863-002) • Examination Session (e.g. May 2012) Header and Footer I recommend that your H…
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Here are the links to the notes and sample works for Math subjects that we have on our Files archive. To be able to download files, you have to be a VIP member or a VIP subscriber. Please see the FAQ for information on how to become a VIP or how to buy a VIP subscription. If you want to donate and contribute files to our archive, please see this announcement or this FAQ section. Mathematics Notes Sample HL Internal Assessments Sample SL Internal Assessments Sample Maths Studies Internal Assessments
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Here is some advice that you might want to follow right before and during the Math examination. Although most of these things are common sense, I think that putting it all down in words helps. So, 1) Ensure that you have atleast 2 working pens, a ruler, an eraser, two working pencils and your GDC put into your bag the night before the exam. - The last thing you want to do is forget something small and go around begging people for it/ going home to get it right before the exam. 2) Change the batteries of your GDC the night before the Paper 2 exam. - I know this is kind of extreme but after having used the GDC for so much exam practice [hopefully], the batteries might be ru…
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The growing number of posts, where solutions to internal assessment tasks are given, has unfortunately led me to create a specific rule for this forum. [b]Do not post mathematical solutions to questions about Internal Assessment tasks.[/b] IB rules clearly state that students are not allowed to gain direct help, whether oral or written, in writing their mathematics IA tasks. Thus, even if a student is desperate in proving a statement or finding the correct method to problems, you may not give the answer to him. You may, however, give an answer of general nature (without actual calculation) that will direct a student to the methods required to find a solution. For examp…
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Yup cabso is right...you are truly good at this.!!......I also had a question for you...Becuase I moved a few American schools... and i was never good at maths..actually is the subject i hate coz im really bad at it...but i was wondering if you could still get your IB diploma if you take the lowest Math class.which is Math SL I bet...even tough it was even more confusing with the amercan formula that had a bigger varitey of levels including calculus...and all of that....
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Hello all! I am currently deciding on DP choices and would love some input from more experienced people! I am planning on doing biochem and/or international relations. Because of that, my current choices are as follows: Bio HL Chem HL History HL Mathematics AA/AI SL Italian B SL English A SL What math course applies best? I was leaning toward AI because it seems to work best with Biochem, however I really don’t know. I am alright at math but nowhere near where I need to be for HL. So. Any suggestions?
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I am selling my Revision Village account since I have finished my IB DP program. This membership helped me score a 7 as a final grade in MATH AA HL, and I would recommend it to anyone taking DP Math. The membership is GOLD, meaning it gives lifetime access to all questions and answers. New it costs 200€, but I will price it at 100€ to sell it fast. Message if interested
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I'm selling my revision village with unlimited gold subscription for cheap since I'm done with the IB. Message me if interested.
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I've done research on some universities in the UK to study Veterinary Medicine but none of the ones that I've come across specify if I should take AI or AA, the only requirment being Maths SL and/or the grade (e.g 5 out of 7). Some don't focus on the overal points out of 45 but more on the individual grades of subjects. I've spoken to a few teachers, they said AA would be a better option as it'll give me more opportunities for universities but after receiving my prior knowledge test we did during induction for DP, I did not get a high enough mark and so my maths teacher doesnt recommend AA maths. I'm unsure if I should still take AA maths, I believe that I'm cap…
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Hey everybody! As part of our CAS, a friend and I created an IB Math YouTube channel a few weeks ago: Find it here. It is an open channel (you can send your videos to our email, and we will review them and post them with your credits). Collaborating with us can undoubtedly count towards your CAS activities! Besides, in case you needed to revise for any specific topic that you don’t fully understand, make sure to check out our videos! Any questions, I will be more than pleased to answer them to you as soon as possible. Thank you!
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hi please could you help me with my math ia by filling out this survey. it would take less than a minute. link: https://forms.gle/8ZiKMsaerLYqnoE2A
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I’m a year ahead in math at my school and am taking SL A&A as a Junior. I am testing this year. My teacher told me that my next class would be HL A&A and I would take the class but not test. However, that class is notoriously difficult at my school and I’d rather not take it. I’d much rather take the easier non-IB statistics class. So, is 4 years of an IB math class required if I’ve already tested out? Or could I take a non-IB Stats class and still get the diploma?
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Hello everyone. Hope you are loving the new year. I plan to start HL math AA next year. Does anyone have any advice for me? Also what textbooks are the best? I need one with good explanations and another one with very hard questions even. I actually like books with questions harder than the exam because if you practice those and get good at it, the exam will be easy for you. Anyway thanks and have a great day.
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Hello everyone hope you is are the new year. Does anyone have a PDF copy of the IBID HL math book Analysis and application book. I downloaded this book from Z Library and Ib resources/Ib Repository but the file I downloaded was only about 274 pages. That seems off as the other books like the Cambridge, Haese mathematics and other books are about a thousand pages. Is this the real size of the IBID book? If yes then great but if not, can anyone kindly share the file with me? Thanks and hope you have a great day.
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Hello everyone hope everyone are enjoying the new year. Does anyone have a PDF copy of the IBID HL math book Analysis and application book. I downloaded this book from Z Library and Ib resources/Ib Repository but the file I downloaded was only about 274 pages. That seems suspicious as the other books like the Cambridge, Haese mathematics and Pearson are about a thousand pages. Is this the real size of the IBID book? If yes then great but if not, can anyone kindly share the file with me? Thanks and hope you have a great day.
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Hi, I choose game theories in auctions for my mathematics investigation, but it is really hard for me to choose my objective, can you please help me?
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Hi, so i chose prediction of solar and lunar eclipses for my math ia topic but i cant seem to find much information of mathematical models of this online. is it too complicated from me to do as an ia? if anyone has any information on this topics, pls pls help me out.
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I haev several ideas for a Math AA HL IA, but I'm not sure what application of these ideas I can use. I also take Physics, so I was thinking about doing something with differential equations in Physics. - Taylor series - Differential equations - Integrating non continuous functions (such as 1/x) - Different methods of solving the basel problem I would prefer to do something that focuses on pure math instead of an application, but as I understand most IAs are applications of Math into the real world. Thanks!
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I want to study Business in university so I was recommended to do Math AI but at my school they only have it at SL. For AA they have both HL & SL. Which math should I pick
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Hi, I've had to change my topic for my IA heaps of times now and it is due next week. The current topic I was thinking about doing was how GPS works. I get that it works on trilateration, but I saw somewhere that someone did a HL math IA on it. So I was wondering what kind of concepts do I use if I did my IA on this and how would I make it HL? I'm doing math aa hl btw. Thank you so much!
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Hey, I know IB exams are coming up for some of you guys and I still have my revision village unlimited gold account that expires on August 2022. So I decided to lend the account for $10 to students who need it to study for their IB math exams. If you're interested, message me on discord: DarkWind#0643
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This is a question for the DP not the career program. What should be the deciding factor between taking IB Math Analysis or IB Math? I know that math analysis is definitely a newer course, however, which one would be better if I am looking to go into medicine?
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Use literature to study mathematics what?
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hey! are there any major differences, apart from the page limit, to the IAs in the new Maths curriculum, compared to the old one?
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Hello! I am doing my IA on the correlation between May 2020 predicted & final grades. If any of you had any subject assessed in May, could you please fill your predicted and final grades into this questionnaire? It would save my ass since I barely have any data https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfocR31aAysQuTVN5zmwyYNrFpbYSmh2MW8U4-IstZqNJwo3g/viewform?usp=sf_link
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I have been using this questionbank for AA recently. It has loads of questions including paper 3 ones. https://www.ibtaskmaker.com
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Hello Guys, Which book would you recommend to study for maths application and interpretation HL. There are very few books available. Therefore, recommendations would be helpful. Furthermore, are there any other online resources other than "revision village" I can look at ?
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Hi, I am in need for more ideas about my Maths IA (Maths A&I SL). I investigate the relationship between sleeping hours and working hours. I already performed chi-square test, regression analysis and I created box n' whisker plot, but my teacher thinks that it requires further analysis. Thank you in advance!!! 😊
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Hi everyone. I'm having a little trouble with my Math IA., I would like to do the topic "The Mathematics behind Medical Testing", where I would speak about false positives / false negatives and the probability of getting them. However, I don't know where to get data from. Am I supposed to make up a hypothetical situation / disease and then make fake numbers for it ? Is that even allowed..? I would be using conditional probability to find the probability of a student testing positive for the XYZ disease, actually having the disease. I would be using the conditional probability formula, but I'm finding that the math is very limited (there's not much to do).…
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Hi everyone! I am an IB senior and was just finishing up the first draft of my extended essay. My topic is based around models on forecasting the stock market, specifically comparing two models and their effectiveness in terms of accuracy on forecasting the stock market. However, I was running into a few issues when trying to sort out my calculations. As I was working through my calculations I realized that a few of my data crunching calcs needed to be done in R/Rstudio. I was wondering if R is permitted to be used in Math EE's as long as there are significant physical calculations for the methods used in R. Any assistance would be great!
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anyone can suggest any good site for revision during this quarantine period?
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Hey! I was wondering if anyone has done a Maths IA (exploration) connected with sport and calculations around it, can be both HL or SL. I have to write an essay in Maths (for a competition) which is somehow similar to IA (but it's not really about IA), so that's why it doesn't have any specified level of Maths required. I was thinking of calculating something with skiing (or figure skating) cause I'm interested in that and I think I could find some Maths in it. However, I'm not sure how to tackle the topic (I'm in Y1 so we haven't started our IAs yet) and what it could possibly be about. If anyone has done an IA (or another Maths essay) in any of these topics, …
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Hello there, I have two questions one is that how much do IB expect from us to write in EE math, since it is really difficult to write up to 3500. second one is that how do plagiarism really works. In math we cannot really change a proof of a theory, so if I took it from a source does it really counts as plagiarism or rephrasing it and citing it counts.
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Hey guys, Can y'all please fill out this form. I need it for my Math IA. Thank you so much :)) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1h2PMQU_eEtCJ18dGXlWn87RqaMyICTCMPrYBKEMT5Es/edit
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What are your thoughts on the new IB Mathematics subjects i.e. MAthematics Analysis and Approaches and MAthematics Applications and interpretations . Which textbook is your school using and which one do you think is the best ? Appreciate the replies !
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Hi! I am doing my math IA on logarithms and I want to focus on pH (chemistry) and arrhenius equation. I was wondering if you could help me with what exactly to investigate, I wrote my introduction and realized that I do not know what to write in the body and further on. Any help is well-appreciated! Thank you
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I am planning to study medicine and I am currently doing HL chem and bio. I am currently in a mixed class for math and have the choice to do either AA SL or AI HL. Which new math course should I take for medicine?
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For the math IA/Exploration, I am using chicago style for the citation/bibliography, is there a certain citation style (like the APA, MLA) that I have to use for my IA? Or can the citing be anything.
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I am about to finish writing my Math IA, but since I did a lot of research, I made the font quite small and made the margins and spacing shorter so that I could fit my research into the 6~12 page restriction. Isnt it ok to make your font, spacing and margins however small/big you want it, as long as the page number is between 6~12? There is no set rule, would I get marked down if I cram too many words for my IA?
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AA or AI for engineering? I am planning to take SL English Lang and Lit SL Mandarin ab initio SL Chemistry HL Physics HL Math AI HL Business Management
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Hi, my math teacher told us that we need to choose a topic for our math IA, that was one month ago and i still dont have a topic. I like aviation but i cant think of anything of aviation that can be applied to math. PLEASE HELP ME!!!, any ideas are welcome.
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I really really hate math. I am terrible at it, but I just had to take math at school. Therefore, I have to do IA. What is the easy topic for IA in math? I want a good grade in it. The full score is 20, right? Please help. Any ideas?
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I am in grade 11 right now and am taking math SL. I am really struggling. In the winter mock exams we had, I got a 2/7 for P1 and a 2/7 for P2. My recent in-class test was not that much better either (3 but 1 point from a 2). I am worried that I might not pass with SL math at all. Should I move down or is it too late? Do you guys think I will get better grades if I work more / get more tutoring?
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Hello, I am an 8th grade student who has recently been accepted into the Pre-IBDP program. I will go to Colonel By Secondary School in Ottawa next year. So we don't have a lot of course choices next year. For math, however, I can choose either MPM1DE (which is the accelerated pre-ib math course that leads to either HL or SL Math in grade 11) or MPM1D (which is the regular academic course in math which leads to SL Applications & Interpretation Math in grade 11). I want to be able to take HL Math in grade 11, but I hear it is an advanced course that consists of two years while SL Applications & Interpretation Math take only one year. Can you give me an explanation o…
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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeziMipjpK-QDxEafD0wzOuGgdN6ZCcQwMgOsCWfrSolbQtzA/viewform?usp=sf_link please do this survey i need for my IA. Thank you so much.
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I have no idea why I am in Maths SL, but, some how, I am. So, I am having some problems with my Maths SL IA project and I just want to score a 4. Does anyone have any tips or advice to help me score easy points?
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