Tuesday 26 February 2013

Revision : Standard Form


Get these Angles Grammar right

Acute Anglean angle that is less than 90°
Right Anglean angle that is 90° exactly
Obtuse Anglean angle that is greater than 90° but less than 180°

Revision on Sets


Introduction to Quadratic Equation


Solution in Finding Gradient


TONGUE TWISTER II


Denise sees the fleece 
Denise sees the fleece,
Denise sees the fleas.
At least Denise could sneeze
and feed and freeze the fleas.

Felt 
Of all the felt I ever felt I never felt felt that felt like that felt felt.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood in a truck?
As much wood as a woodchuck could if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

I slit the Sheet
I slit the sheet,
The sheet I slit
and on the slitted sheet I sit.

Peter Piper 
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

TONGUE TWISTER

A Canner Can
A canner exceedingly canny
one morning remarked to his granny
"a canner can can
anything that he can
but a canner can't can a can, can he?"
(Carolyn Wells)

A Tutor
A tutor who tooted the flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot
Said the two to the tutor
"Is it tougher to toot Or to tutor two tooters to toot?"

Beebee and Phoebe
A certain young fellow named Beebee
Wished to marry a lady named Phoebe
"But," he said. "I must see What the minister's fee be
Before Phoebe be Phoebe Beebee

RIDDLES


Three Guys at A Hotel Riddle

Three guys rent a hotel room for the night. When they get to the hotel they pay the $30 fee, then go up to their room. Soon the bellhop brings up their bags and gives the lawyers back $5 because the hotel was having a special discount that weekend. So the three lawyers decide to each keep one of the $5 dollars and to give the bellhop a $2 tip. However, when they sat down to tally up their expenses for the weekend the could not explain the following details:
Each one of them had originally paid $10 (towards the initial $30), then each got back $1 which meant that they each paid $9. Then they gave the bellhop a $2 tip. HOWEVER, 3 • $9 + $2 = $29
    The guys couldn't figure out what happened to the other dollar. After all, the three paid out $30 but could only account for $29.
Can you determine what happened?
There are many ways of explaining/thinking about this truly brain bending riddle! It all boils down to the fact that the lawyers's math is incorrect. They did NOT spend $9 • 3 + $2.
They spent exactly $27 dollars. $25 for the room and $2 for the tip. Remember they got exactly $3, in total back.
Another way to think about the answer to this riddle is to just pretend that the bellhop refunded $3 to the lawyers (rather than giving them $5 and receiving $2 back). If the lawyers get $3 back and each takes $1. They they spent exactly $27 dollars.

Three Brothers on a Farm

Three brothers live in a farm. They agreed to buy new seeds: Adam and Ben would go and Charlie stayed to protect fields. Ben bought 75 sacks of wheat in the market whereas Adam bought 45 sacks. At home, they split the sacks equally. Charlie had paid 1400 dollars for the wheat. How much dollars did Ben and Adam get of the sum, considering equal split of the sacks?

MATH JOKES


If you had 8 apples in one hand and 5 apples in the other, what would you have?
(Really big hands!)

What is a mathematician's favorite dessert?
(Pi!)

How can you make seven even?
(Take away the "s"!)

What has eight legs and eight eyes?
(Eight pirates!)

SETS


Definition

What is a set? Well, simply put, it's a collection.
First you specify a common property among "things" (this word will be defined later) and then you gather up all the "things" that have this common property.
For example, the items you wear: these would include shoes, socks, hat, shirt, pants, and so on.
I'm sure you could come up with at least a hundred.
This is known as a set.
Or another example would be types of fingers.
This set would include index, middle, ring, and pinky.
So it is just things grouped together with a certain property in common.

Notation

There is a fairly simple notation for sets. You simply list each element, separated by a comma, and then put some curly brackets around the whole thing.
Set
The curly brackets { } are sometimes called "set brackets" or "braces".
This is the notation for the two previous examples:
{socks, shoes, watches, shirts, ...}
{index, middle, ring, pinky}

Monday 25 February 2013

Average formula: 
Let a1,a2,a3,......,an be a set of numbers, average = (a1 + a2 + a3,+......+ an)/n

Fractions formulas: 
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Converting a mixed number to an improper fraction:

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Converting an improper fraction to a mixed number:

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Formula for a proportion: 

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In a proportion, the product of the extremes (ad) equal the product of the means(bc), 

Thus, ad = bc

Percent: 
Percent to fraction: x% = x/100

Percentage formula: Rate/100 = Percentage/base

Rate: The percent. 
Base: The amount you are taking the percent of.
Percentage: The answer obtained by multiplying the base by the rate

Consumer math formulas: 

Discount = list price × discount rate

Sale price = list price − discount

Discount rate = discount ÷ list price

Sales tax = price of item × tax rate

Interest = principal × rate of interest × time

Tips = cost of meals × tip rate

Commission = cost of service × commission rate

Geometry formulas: 
Perimeter:

Perimeter of a square: s + s + s + s 
s:length of one side

Perimeter of a rectangle: l + w + l + w
l: length
w: width

Perimeter of a triangle: a + b + c
a, b, and c: lengths of the 3 sides

Area:

Area of a square: s × s 
s: length of one side

Area of a rectangle: l × w
l: length
w: width

Area of a triangle: (b × h)/2
b: length of base
h: length of height

Area of a trapezoid: (b1 + b2) × h/2
b1 and b2: parallel sides o
r the bases
h: length of height

volume:

Volume of a cube: s × s × s 
s: length of one side

Volume of a box: l × w × h
l: length
w: width
h: height

Volume of a sphere: (4/3) × pi × r3
pi: 3.14
r: radius of sphere

Volume of a triangular prism: area of triangle × Height = (1/2 base × height) × Height
base: length of the base of the triangle
height: height of the triangle
Height: height of the triangular prism

Volume of a cylinder:pi × r2 × Height
pi: 3.14
r: radius of the circle of the base
Height: height of the cylinder

MATH SHAPE FORMULA

Shapes
Formula
Rectangle:
Area = Length X Width
A = lw

Perimeter = 2 X Lengths + 2 X Widths
P = 2l + 2w
Parallelogram
Area = Base X Height
a = bh
TriangleArea = 1/2 of the base X the height
a = 1/2 bh
Perimeter = a + b + c
(add the length of the three sides)

Trapezoid

Perimeter = area + b1 + b2 + c
P = a + b1 + b2 + c
Circle Try the Online tool.
The distance around the circle is a circumference. The distance across the circle is the diameter (d). The radius (r) is the distance from the center to a point on the circle. (Pi = 3.14) More about circles.
d = 2r
c = pd = 2 pr
A = pr2
(p=3.14)
Rectangular Solid
Volume = Length X Width X Height
V = lwh
Surface = 2lw + 2lh + 2wh
Prisms
Volume = Base X Height
v=bh
Surface = 2b + Ph (b is the area of the base P is the perimeter of the base)
Cylinder
Volume = pr2 x height
V = pr2 h
Surface = 2p radius x height
S = 2prh + 2pr2
Pyramid
V = 1/3 bh
b is the area of the base
Surface Area: Add the area of the base to the sum of the areas of all of the triangular faces. The areas of the triangular faces will have different formulas for different shaped bases.
ConesVolume = 1/3 pr2 x heightV= 1/3 pr2h 
Surface = pr2 + prsS = pr2 + prs 
=
pr2 + pr
SphereVolume = 4/3 pr3V = 4/3 pr3
Surface = 4pr2S = 4pr2

BASIC MATH SYMBOLS


SymbolSymbol NameMeaning / definitionExample
=equals signequality5 = 2+3
not equal signinequality5 ≠ 4
>strict inequalitygreater than5 > 4
<strict inequalityless than4 < 5
inequalitygreater than or equal to5 ≥ 4
inequalityless than or equal to4 ≤ 5
( )parenthesescalculate expression inside first2 × (3+5) = 16
[ ]bracketscalculate expression inside first[(1+2)*(1+5)] = 18
+plus signaddition1 + 1 = 2
minus signsubtraction2 − 1 = 1
±plus - minusboth plus and minus operations3 ± 5 = 8 and -2
minus - plusboth minus and plus operations3 ∓ 5 = -2 and 8
*asteriskmultiplication2 * 3 = 6
×times signmultiplication2 × 3 = 6
∙ multiplication dotmultiplication2 ∙ 3 = 6
÷division sign / obelusdivision6 ÷ 2 = 3
/division slashdivision6 / 2 = 3
horizontal linedivision / fraction\frac{6}{2}=3
modmoduloremainder calculation7 mod 2 = 1
.perioddecimal point, decimal separator2.56 = 2+56/100
a bpowerexponent23 = 8
a^bcaretexponent
2 ^ 3 = 8
asquare root
a · a  = a
√9 = ±3
3acube root3√8 = 2
4aforth root4√16 = ±2
nan-th root (radical)for n=3, n√8 = 2
%percent1% = 1/10010% × 30 = 3
per-mille1‰ = 1/1000 = 0.1%10‰ × 30 = 0.3
ppmper-million1ppm = 1/100000010ppm × 30 = 0.0003
ppbper-billion1ppb = 1/100000000010ppb × 30 = 3×10-7
pptper-trillion1ppb = 10-1210ppb × 30 = 3×10-10

FORM 4 MATH TOPICS


Sunday 3 February 2013

MATH FACTS

  • The word 'mathematics' comes from the Greek máthēma, which means learning, study, science.
  • What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
  • Different names for the number 0 include zero, nought, naught, nil, zilch and zip.
  • Zero ( 0 ) is the only number which can not be represented by Roman numerals.
  • The name 'zero' derives from the Arabic word sifr which also gave us the English word 'cipher' meaning 'a secret way of writing' .
  • Do you know the magic of no. nine (9)? Multiply any number with nine (9 ) and then sum all individual digits of the result (product) to make it single digit, the sum of all these individual digits would always be nine (9).
  • Here is an interesting trick to check divisibility of any number by number 3.A number is divisible by three if the sum of its digits is divisible by three (3).
  • The = sign ("equals sign") was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations.

MATH JOKES


Halloween

Q: What do you get if you divide the circumference of a jack-o-lantern by its diameter?
A: Pumpkin Pi


Mathematicians at the beach

Q: Why do you rarely find mathematicians spending time at the beach?
A: Because they have sine and cosine to get a tan and don't need the sun



Zero said to eight

Q: What does the zero say to the the eight?
A: Nice belt!


Fear

Q. Why is the number six scared of seven?
A. Because seven eight nine (7 ate 9)!


MATHEMATICIAN QUOTES


Archimedes of Syracus (287-212 B. C. E)

  • Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth.
  • Eureka, euraka!
  • Don't spoil my circles! (or Do not disturb my circles!)
  • There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

Geoge Cantor (1845-1918)

  • The essence of mathematics is its freedom.
  • I see it, but I don't believe it.
  • Mathematics is entirely free in its development, and its concepts are only linked by the necessity of being consistent, and are co-ordinated with concepts introduced previously by means of precise definitions.
  • In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
  • every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

  • So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality.
  • I don't believe in mathematics.
  • God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
  • Nature to him (Newton) was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
  • Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.
  • Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I assure you that mine are greater.

Friday 1 February 2013




Hey so I realize this is lame but I was out of ideas okay....and I had to do something so hehehe this is it...no judging! Anyway, enjoy?