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Finding Your Feet



Whether you are starting A Levels, Highers, International Baccalaureate, or another higher maths qualification, it might take a while to find your feet.

These problems use familiar ideas from Stage 4 to help you to find a way in.

Between
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Between

Age
16 to 18
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If you know some points on a line, can you work out other points in between?
Name that graph
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Name that graph

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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How can you work out the equation of a parabola just by looking at key features of its graph?
Which fraction is bigger?
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Which fraction is bigger?

Age
16 to 18
Challenge level
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Given two algebraic fractions, how can you decide when each is bigger?
Paired parabolas
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Paired parabolas

Age
16 to 18
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Some parabolas are related to others. How are their equations and graphs connected?