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New IB teacher and IB student resources added
I’ve just added a lot of new free content to support both students and teachers in the IB Mathematics course. This includes:
Paper 3
Paper 3 resources: 13 full exploration questions with full markschemes. This is a selection of the Paper 3 investigations I’ve made over the years. Many of these bridge between Paper 3 practice (exposure to novel or new mathematical ideas) and the Exploration coursework. All of these could be easily adapted to make some very interesting coursework submissions.
Exploration coursework
Exploration Guides: 3 completely free guides covering all aspects of the coursework process. You can download some comprehensive exploration guides that I’ve written to help students get excellent marks on their IB maths coursework. These guides are suitable for both Analysis and also Applications students.
Starter puzzles
Starter puzzles: 14 starter puzzles for beginning lessons with enrichment ideas. I have designed a number of IB Maths starters – these are intended to enrich and (hopefully!) stimulate. Some are aimed at strong HL students and could be developed to interesting coursework tasks, and others are more general access for all classes.
Intermathematics
If you are a teacher and find these useful, then please also visit my new site: intermathematics.com for over 3000+ pages of content for teaching IB mathematics including worksheets, mock exams, investigations, enrichment tasks, technology guides, exploration support and investigations.
(Header image generated from here).
ECDSA: Elliptic Curve Signatures
This is the second post on this topic – following on from the first post here. Read that first for more of the maths behind this! In this post I’ll look at this from a computational angle – and make a simple Python code to create and verify Elliptic Curve Signatures.
Why Elliptical Curve Signatures?
Say I create 100 MATHSCOINS which I sell. This MATHSCOIN only has value if it can be digitally verified to be an original issued by me. To do this I share some data publicly – this then allows anyone who wants to check via its digital signature that this is a genuine MATHSCOIN. Once you understand this idea you can (in theory!) create your own digital currency or NFT – complete with a digital signature that allows anyone to check that it has been issued by you.
Python code
This code will revolve around solutions mod M to the following elliptical curve:
We can run a quick Python code to find these solutions for a defined M:
This Python code then needs to use the algorithms for repeated addition of the base pair. It then needs to store all the coordinate pairs in a list (one list for the x coordinates and one for the y coordinates). These can then follow the algorithm for creating the digital signature. Note that we need to define the mod of the curve (M), the starting base pair (a,b), the order of the base pair (n), our data to digitally sign (z1), our private key (k1) and a public key (k2).
The full code for digital signatures
Running this code
I have put this code online at Replit.com here – so you can see how it works. It should look something like this:
Checking a digital signature is genuine
We might also want to work backwards to check if a digital signature is correct. The following code will tell us this – as long as we specify all the required variables below. Note we need the digital signature (s1, s2) as well as (r1,r2) – which is worked out by the previous code.
Running this code
You can run this code here – again on Replit.com. You should see something like this:
Try it yourself!
To create your own digital signatures you need to find a mod M and a base pair with order n, such that both M and n are prime. Remember you can use this site to find some starting base pairs mod M. Here are some to start off with
(1)
M = 907. Base pair = (670,30). n = 967
(2)
M = 79. Base pair = (60, 10). n = 67
(3)
M = 97. Base pair = (85, 92). n = 79
(4)
M = 13. Base pair = (8,8). n = 7
Can you run the code to create a digital signature, and then run the verification code to check that it is indeed genuine?
I’ve just made a big update to both the teacher and student resources sections:
These now have some great free resources for students to help them with the IB maths course – including full course notes, formula books, Paper 3s, an Exploration guides and a great mind-map. Make sure to check these all out to get some excellent support for the IB maths course.
These now have over 25 worksheets, investigations, paper 3s, treasure hunts and more resources – both with question pdfs and markscheme pdfs. I’ve added a lot of enriching activities that would support explorations and paper 3 style problems and also put a selection of some excellent other resources from IB teachers too.
So be sure to check these both out!
Getting a 7 in IB Maths Exploration Coursework
I’ve teamed up with Udemy – the world’s leading provider of online courses to create a comprehensive online guide to the exploration. It includes 9 tutorial videos of essential information designed to ensure you get the best possible grade. You will also get a 60 page pdf Exploration Guide (worth $7.50) for free.
The IB Maths coursework is worth 20% of the final grade – but many students score poorly on this, and sometimes because of poor advice. Gain the inside track on what makes a good coursework piece from an IB Maths Examiner as you learn all the skills necessary to produce something outstanding. The video tutorials will cover
1) The tools required to pick an excellent topic,
2) Looking at how to gain a deep understanding of the criteria points,
3) Non calculator technique to demonstrate thorough understanding,
4) Exploring top tips for making beautiful graphs and modeling using Desmos,
5) Comparing “good” versus “bad” examples of coursework.
6) Achieving a Level 7 – what you need to do to hit the top criteria levels.
There is more than 140 minutes of video tutorial content as well as a number of multiple choice quizzes to aid understanding. There are also a number of pdf downloads to support the lesson content – such as a criteria checklist, examples of topics to research in more detail, a initial submission sheet and also some data to use in Desmos graphing.
See the free preview here.
If you are a teacher then please also visit my new site: intermathematics.com for over 2000+ pdf pages of resources for teaching IB maths!
Volume optimization of a cuboid
This is an extension of the Nrich task which is currently live – where students have to find the maximum volume of a cuboid formed by cutting squares of size x from each corner of a 20 x 20 piece of paper. I’m going to use an n x 10 rectangle and see what the optimum x value is when n tends to infinity.
First we can find the volume of the cuboid:
Next we want to find when the volume is a maximum, so differentiate and set this equal to 0.
Next we use the quadratic formula to find the roots of the quadratic, and then see what happens as n tends to infinity (i.e we want to see what the optimum x values are for our cuboid when n approaches infinity). We only take the negative solution of the + – quadratic solutions because this will be the only one that fits the initial problem.
Next we try and simplify the square root by taking out a factor of 16, and then we complete the square for the term inside the square root (this will be useful next!)
Next we make a u substitution. Note that this means that as n approaches infinity, u approaches 0.
Substituting this into the expression gives us:
We then manipulate the surd further to get it in the following form:
Now, the reason for all that manipulation becomes apparent – we can use the binomial expansion for the square root of 1 + u2 to get the following:
Therefore we have shown that as the value of n approaches infinity, the value of x that gives the optimum volume approaches 2.5cm.
So, even though we start with a pretty simple optimization task, it quickly develops into some quite complicated mathematics. We could obviously have plotted the term in n to see what its behavior was as n approaches infinity, but it’s nicer to prove it. So, let’s check our result graphically.
As we can see from the graph, with n plotted on the x axis and x plotted on the y axis we approach x = 2.5 as n approaches infinity – as required.
An m by n rectangle.
So, we can then extend this by considering an n by m rectangle, where m is fixed and then n tends to infinity. As before the question is what is the value of x which gives the maximum volume as n tends to infinity?
We do the same method. First we write the equation for the volume and put it into the quadratic formula.
Next we complete the square, and make the u substitution:
Next we simplify the surd, and then use the expansion for the square root of 1 + u2
This then gives the following answer:
So, we can see that for an n by m rectangle, as m is fixed and n tends to infinity, the value of x which gives the optimum volume tends to m/4. For example when we had a 10 by n rectangle (i.e m = 10) we had x = 2.5. When we have a 20 by n rectangle we would have x = 5 etc.
And we’ve finished! See what other things you can explore with this problem.
Essential Resources for IB Teachers
If you are a teacher then please also visit my new site. This has been designed specifically for teachers of mathematics at international schools. The content now includes over 2000 pages of pdf content for the entire SL and HL Analysis syllabus and also the SL Applications syllabus. Some of the content includes:
- Original pdf worksheets (with full worked solutions) designed to cover all the syllabus topics. These make great homework sheets or in class worksheets – and are each designed to last between 40 minutes and 1 hour.
- Original Paper 3 investigations (with full worked solutions) to develop investigative techniques and support both the exploration and the Paper 3 examination.
- Over 150 pages of Coursework Guides to introduce students to the essentials behind getting an excellent mark on their exploration coursework.
- A large number of enrichment activities such as treasure hunts, quizzes, investigations, Desmos explorations, Python coding and more – to engage IB learners in the course.
There is also a lot more. I think this could save teachers 200+ hours of preparation time in delivering an IB maths course – so it should be well worth exploring!
Essential Resources for both IB teachers and IB students
1) Exploration Guides and Paper 3 Resources
I’ve put together a 168 page Super Exploration Guide to talk students and teachers through all aspects of producing an excellent coursework submission. Students always make the same mistakes when doing their coursework – get the inside track from an IB moderator! I have also made Paper 3 packs for HL Analysis and also Applications students to help prepare for their Paper 3 exams. The Exploration Guides can be downloaded here and the Paper 3 Questions can be downloaded here.
If you are a teacher then please also visit my new site: intermathematics.com for over 2000+ pdf pages of resources for teaching IB maths!
Projective Geometry
Geometry is a discipline which has long been subject to mathematical fashions of the ages. In classical Greece, Euclid’s elements (Euclid pictured above) with their logical axiomatic base established the subject as the pinnacle on the “great mountain of Truth” that all other disciplines could but hope to scale. However the status of the subject fell greatly from such heights and by the late 18th century it was no longer a fashionable branch to study. The revival of interest in geometry was led by a group of French mathematicians at the start of the 1800s with their work on projective geometry. This then paved the way for the later development of non-Euclidean geometry and led to deep philosophical questions as to geometry’s links with reality and indeed just what exactly geometry was.
Projective geometry is the study of geometrical properties unchanged by projection. It strips away distinctions between conics, angles, distance and parallelism to create a geometry more fundamental than Euclidean geometry. For example the diagram below shows how an ellipse has been projected onto a circle. The ellipse and the circle are therefore projectively equivalent which means that projective results in the circle are also true in ellipses (and other conics).
Projective geometry can be understood in terms of rays of light emanating from a point. In the diagram above, the triangle IJK drawn on the glass screen would be projected to triangle LNO on the ground. This projection does not preserve either angles or side lengths – so the triangle on the ground will have different sized angles and sides to that on the screen. This may seem a little strange – after all we tend to think in terms of angles and sides in geometry, however in projective geometry distinctions about angles and lengths are stripped away (however something called the cross-ratio is still preserved).
We can see in the image above that a projection from the point E creates similar shapes when the 2 planes containing IJKL and ABCD are parallel. Therefore the Euclidean geometrical study of similar shapes can be thought of as a subset of plane positions in projective geometry.
Taking this idea further we can see that congruent shapes can be achieved if we have the centre of projection, E, “sent to infinity:” In projective geometry, parallel lines do indeed meet – at this point at infinity. Therefore with the point E sent to infinity we have a projection above yielding congruent shapes.
Projective geometry can be used with conics to associate every point (pole) with a line (polar), and vice versa. For example the point A had the associated red line, d. To find this we draw the 2 tangents from A to the conic. We then join the 2 points of intersection between B and C. This principle of duality allowed new theorems to be discovered simply by interchanging points and lines.
An example of both the symmetrical attractiveness and the mathematical potential for duality was first provided by Brianchon. In 1806 he used duality to discover the dual theorem of Pascal’s Theorem – simply by interchanging points and lines. Rarely can a mathematical discovery have been both so (mechanically) easy and yet so profoundly
beautiful.
Brianchon’s Theorem
Pascal’s Theorem
Poncelet
Poncelet was another French pioneer of projective geometry who used the idea of points and lines being “sent to infinity” to yield some remarkable results when used as a tool for mathematical proof.
Another version of Pascal’s Theorem:
Poncelet claimed he could prove Pascal’s theorem (shown above) where 6 points on a conic section joined to make a hexagon have a common line. He did this by sending the line GH to infinity. To understand this we can note that the previous point of intersection G of lines AB’ and A’B is now at infinity, which means that AB’ and A’B will now be parallel. This means that H being at infinity also creates the 2 parallel lines AC’. Poncelet now argued that because we could prove through geometrical means that B’C and BC’ were also parallel, that this was consistent with the line HI also being at infinity. Therefore by proving the specific case in a circle where line GHI has been sent to infinity he argued that we could prove using projective geometry the general case of Pascal’s theorem in any conic .
Pascal’s Theorem with intersections at infinity:
This branch of mathematics developed quickly in the early 1800s, sparking new interest in geometry and leading to a heated debate about whether geometry should retain its “pure” Euclidean roots of diagrammatic proof, or if it was best understood through algebra. The use of points and lines at infinity marked a shift away from geometry representing “reality” as understood from a Euclidean perspective, and by the late 1800s Beltrami, Poincare and others were able to incorporate the ideas of projective geometry and lines at infinity to provide their Euclidean models of non-Euclidean space. The development of projective geometry demonstrated how a small change of perspective could have profound consequences.
Essential Resources for IB Teachers
If you are a teacher then please also visit my new site. This has been designed specifically for teachers of mathematics at international schools. The content now includes over 2000 pages of pdf content for the entire SL and HL Analysis syllabus and also the SL Applications syllabus. Some of the content includes:
- Original pdf worksheets (with full worked solutions) designed to cover all the syllabus topics. These make great homework sheets or in class worksheets – and are each designed to last between 40 minutes and 1 hour.
- Original Paper 3 investigations (with full worked solutions) to develop investigative techniques and support both the exploration and the Paper 3 examination.
- Over 150 pages of Coursework Guides to introduce students to the essentials behind getting an excellent mark on their exploration coursework.
- A large number of enrichment activities such as treasure hunts, quizzes, investigations, Desmos explorations, Python coding and more – to engage IB learners in the course.
There is also a lot more. I think this could save teachers 200+ hours of preparation time in delivering an IB maths course – so it should be well worth exploring!
Essential Resources for both IB teachers and IB students
1) Exploration Guides and Paper 3 Resources
I’ve put together a 168 page Super Exploration Guide to talk students and teachers through all aspects of producing an excellent coursework submission. Students always make the same mistakes when doing their coursework – get the inside track from an IB moderator! I have also made Paper 3 packs for HL Analysis and also Applications students to help prepare for their Paper 3 exams. The Exploration Guides can be downloaded here and the Paper 3 Questions can be downloaded here.
If you are a teacher then please also visit my new site: intermathematics.com for over 2000+ pdf pages of resources for teaching IB maths!
Modeling hours of daylight
Desmos has a nice student activity (on teacher.desmos.com) modeling the number of hours of daylight in Florida versus Alaska – which both produce a nice sine curve when plotted on a graph. So let’s see if this relationship also holds between Phuket and Manchester.
First we can find the daylight hours from this site, making sure to convert the times given to decimals of hours.
Phuket
Phuket has the following distribution of hours of daylight (taking the reading from the first of each month and setting 1 as January)
Manchester
Manchester has much greater variation and is as follows:
Therefore when we plot them together (Phuket in green and Manchester in blue) we get the following 2 curves:
We can see that these very closely fit sine curves, indeed we can see that the following regression lines fit the curves very closely:
Manchester:
Phuket:
For Manchester I needed to set the value of b (see what happens if you don’t do this!) Because we are working with Sine graphs, the value of d will give the equation of the axis of symmetry of the graph, which will also be the average hours of daylight over the year. We can see therefore that even though there is a huge variation between the hours of daylight in the 2 places, they both get on average the same amount of daylight across the year (12.3 hours versus 12.1 hours).
Further investigation:
Does the relationship still hold when looking at hours of sunshine rather than daylight? How many years would we expect our model be accurate for? It’s possible to investigate the use of sine waves to model a large amount of natural phenomena such as tide heights and musical notes – so it’s also possible to investigate in this direction as well.
Essential Resources for IB Teachers
If you are a teacher then please also visit my new site. This has been designed specifically for teachers of mathematics at international schools. The content now includes over 2000 pages of pdf content for the entire SL and HL Analysis syllabus and also the SL Applications syllabus. Some of the content includes:
- Original pdf worksheets (with full worked solutions) designed to cover all the syllabus topics. These make great homework sheets or in class worksheets – and are each designed to last between 40 minutes and 1 hour.
- Original Paper 3 investigations (with full worked solutions) to develop investigative techniques and support both the exploration and the Paper 3 examination.
- Over 150 pages of Coursework Guides to introduce students to the essentials behind getting an excellent mark on their exploration coursework.
- A large number of enrichment activities such as treasure hunts, quizzes, investigations, Desmos explorations, Python coding and more – to engage IB learners in the course.
There is also a lot more. I think this could save teachers 200+ hours of preparation time in delivering an IB maths course – so it should be well worth exploring!
Essential Resources for both IB teachers and IB students
1) Exploration Guides and Paper 3 Resources
I’ve put together a 168 page Super Exploration Guide to talk students and teachers through all aspects of producing an excellent coursework submission. Students always make the same mistakes when doing their coursework – get the inside track from an IB moderator! I have also made Paper 3 packs for HL Analysis and also Applications students to help prepare for their Paper 3 exams. The Exploration Guides can be downloaded here and the Paper 3 Questions can be downloaded here.
Cartoon from here
If you are a teacher then please also visit my new site: intermathematics.com for over 2000+ pdf pages of resources for teaching IB maths!
The Gini Coefficient – Measuring Inequality
The Gini coefficient is a value ranging from 0 to 1 which measures inequality. 0 represents perfect equality – i.e everyone in a population has exactly the same wealth. 1 represents complete inequality – i.e 1 person has all the wealth and everyone else has nothing. As you would expect, countries will always have a value somewhere between these 2 extremes. The way its calculated is best seen through the following graph (from here):
The Gini coefficient is calculated as the area of A divided by the area of A+B. As the area of A decreases then the curve which plots the distribution of wealth (we can call this the Lorenz curve) approaches the line y = x. This is the line which represents perfect equality.
Inequality in Thailand
The following graph will illustrate how we can plot a curve and calculate the Gini coefficient. First we need some data. I have taken the following information on income distribution from the 2002 World Bank data on Thailand where I am currently teaching:
Thailand:
The bottom 20% of the population have 6.3% of the wealth
The next 20% of the population have 9.9% of the wealth
The next 20% have 14% of the wealth
The next 20% have 20.8% of the wealth
The top 20% have 49% of the wealth
I can then write this in a cumulative frequency table (converting % to decimals):
Here the x axis represents the cumulative percentage of the population (measured from lowest to highest), and the y axis represents the cumulative wealth. This shows, for example that the the bottom 80% of the population own 51% of the wealth. This can then be plotted as a graph below (using Desmos):
From the graph we can see that Thailand has quite a lot of inequality – after all the top 20% have just under 50% of the wealth. The blue line represents how a perfectly equal society would look.
To find the Gini Coefficient we first need to find the area between the 2 curves. The area underneath the blue line represents the area A +B. This is just the area of a triangle with length and perpendicular height 1, therefore this area is 0.5.
The area under the green curve can be found using the trapezium rule, 0.5(a+b)h. Doing this for the first trapezium we get 0.5(0+0.063)(0.2) = 0.0063. The second trapezium is 0.5(0.063+0.162)(0.2) and so on. Adding these areas all together we get a total trapezium area of 0.3074. Therefore we get the area between the two curves as 0.5 – 0.3074 ≈ 0.1926
The Gini coefficient is then given by 0.1926/0.5 = 0.3852.
The actual World Bank calculation for Thailand’s Gini coefficient in 2002 was 0.42 – so we have slightly underestimated the inequality in Thailand. We would get a more accurate estimate by taking more data points, or by fitting a curve through our plotted points and then integrating. Nevertheless this is a good demonstration of how the method works.
In this graph (from here) we can see a similar plot of wealth distribution – here we have quintiles on the x axis (1st quintile is the bottom 20% etc). This time we can compare Hungary – which shows a high level of equality (the bottom 80% of the population own 62.5% of the wealth) and Namibia – which shows a high level of inequality (the bottom 80% of the population own just 21.3% of the wealth).
How unequal is the world?
We can apply the same method to measure world inequality. One way to do this is to calculate the per capita income of all the countries in the world and then to work out the share of the total global per capita income the (say) bottom 20% of the countries have. This information is represented in the graph above (from here). It shows that there was rising inequality (i.e the richer countries were outperforming the poorer countries) in the 2 decades prior to the end of the century, but that there has been a small decline in inequality since then.
If you want to do some more research on the Gini coefficient you can use the following resources:
The intmaths site article on this topic – which goes into more detail and examples of how to calculate the Gini coefficient
The ConferenceBoard site which contains a detailed look at world inequality
The World Bank data on the Gini coefficients of different countries.
Essential Resources for IB Teachers
If you are a teacher then please also visit my new site. This has been designed specifically for teachers of mathematics at international schools. The content now includes over 2000 pages of pdf content for the entire SL and HL Analysis syllabus and also the SL Applications syllabus. Some of the content includes:
- Original pdf worksheets (with full worked solutions) designed to cover all the syllabus topics. These make great homework sheets or in class worksheets – and are each designed to last between 40 minutes and 1 hour.
- Original Paper 3 investigations (with full worked solutions) to develop investigative techniques and support both the exploration and the Paper 3 examination.
- Over 150 pages of Coursework Guides to introduce students to the essentials behind getting an excellent mark on their exploration coursework.
- A large number of enrichment activities such as treasure hunts, quizzes, investigations, Desmos explorations, Python coding and more – to engage IB learners in the course.
There is also a lot more. I think this could save teachers 200+ hours of preparation time in delivering an IB maths course – so it should be well worth exploring!
Essential Resources for both IB teachers and IB students
1) Exploration Guides and Paper 3 Resources
I’ve put together a 168 page Super Exploration Guide to talk students and teachers through all aspects of producing an excellent coursework submission. Students always make the same mistakes when doing their coursework – get the inside track from an IB moderator! I have also made Paper 3 packs for HL Analysis and also Applications students to help prepare for their Paper 3 exams. The Exploration Guides can be downloaded here and the Paper 3 Questions can be downloaded here.
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If you are a teacher then please also visit my new site: intermathematics.com for over 2000+ pdf pages of resources for teaching IB maths!
This post is inspired by the Quora thread on interesting functions to plot.
- The butterfly
This is a slightly simpler version of the butterfly curve which is plotted using polar coordinates on Desmos as:
Polar coordinates are an alternative way of plotting functions – and are explored a little in HL Maths when looking at complex numbers. The theta value specifies an angle of rotation measured anti-clockwise from the x axis, and the r value specifies the distance from the origin. So for example the polar coordinates (90 degrees, 1) would specify a point 90 degrees ant clockwise from the x axis and a distance 1 from the origin (i.e the point (0,1) in our usual Cartesian plane).
2. Fermat’s Spiral
This is plotted by the polar equation:
The next 3 were all created by my students.
3. Chaotic spiral (by Laura Y9)
I like how this graph grows ever more tangled as it coils in on itself. This was created by the polar equation:
4. The flower (by Felix Y9)
Some nice rotational symmetries on this one. Plotted by:
5. The heart (by Tiffany Y9)
Simple but effective! This was plotted using the usual x,y coordinates:
You can also explore how to draw the Superman and Batman logos using Wolfram Alpha here.
Essential Resources for IB Teachers
If you are a teacher then please also visit my new site. This has been designed specifically for teachers of mathematics at international schools. The content now includes over 2000 pages of pdf content for the entire SL and HL Analysis syllabus and also the SL Applications syllabus. Some of the content includes:
- Original pdf worksheets (with full worked solutions) designed to cover all the syllabus topics. These make great homework sheets or in class worksheets – and are each designed to last between 40 minutes and 1 hour.
- Original Paper 3 investigations (with full worked solutions) to develop investigative techniques and support both the exploration and the Paper 3 examination.
- Over 150 pages of Coursework Guides to introduce students to the essentials behind getting an excellent mark on their exploration coursework.
- A large number of enrichment activities such as treasure hunts, quizzes, investigations, Desmos explorations, Python coding and more – to engage IB learners in the course.
There is also a lot more. I think this could save teachers 200+ hours of preparation time in delivering an IB maths course – so it should be well worth exploring!
Essential Resources for both IB teachers and IB students
1) Exploration Guides and Paper 3 Resources
I’ve put together a 168 page Super Exploration Guide to talk students and teachers through all aspects of producing an excellent coursework submission. Students always make the same mistakes when doing their coursework – get the inside track from an IB moderator! I have also made Paper 3 packs for HL Analysis and also Applications students to help prepare for their Paper 3 exams. The Exploration Guides can be downloaded here and the Paper 3 Questions can be downloaded here.
IB Maths Resources from Intermathematics 