IB Maths Resources from Intermathematics
IB Maths Resources: 300 IB Maths Exploration ideas, video tutorials and Exploration Guides
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHeOrISYWDA Spotting fake data with Benford's Law In the current digital age it's never been easier to fake data - and so it's never been more important to have tools to detect data that has been faked. Benford's Law is an extremely useful way of testing data - because when people fake data they tend... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs2M7gWSbTg Simulating a Football Season This is a nice example of how statistics are used in modeling - similar techniques are used when gambling companies are creating odds or when computer game designers are making football manager games. We start with some statistics. The soccer stats site has the data we need from the 2018-19... Continue Reading →
Could Trump be the next President of America? There is a lot of statistical maths behind polling data to make it as accurate as possible - though poor sampling techniques can lead to unexpected results. For example in the UK 2015 general election even though labour were predicted to win around 37.5% of the... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcfQkxwz4Oo Quantum Mechanics - Statistical Universe Quantum mechanics is the name for the mathematics that can describe physical systems on extremely small scales. When we deal with the macroscopic - i.e scales that we experience in our everyday physical world, then Newtonian mechanics works just fine. However on the microscopic level of particles, Newtonian mechanics... Continue Reading →
Reaction times - How fast are you? Go to the Human Benchmark site and test your reaction times. You have five attempts to press the mouse as soon as you see the screen turn green. You can then see how your reaction times compare with people around the world. According to the site over there... Continue Reading →
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1uJD1O3L08 Medical Data Mining It's worth watching the video above, where Derren Brown manages to flip 10 heads in a row. With Derren being a professional magician, you might expect some magic or sleight of hand - but no, it's all filmed with a continuous camera, and no tricks. So, how does he achieve something... Continue Reading →