IB Maths Resources from Intermathematics
IB Maths Resources: 300 IB Maths Exploration ideas, video tutorials and Exploration Guides
Maths and Evolutionary Biology Mathematics is often utilised across many fields - lets look at an example from biology, evolutionary biology and paleontology, in trying to understand the development of homo-sapiens. We can start with a large data set which gives us the data for mammal body mass and brain size in grams (downloaded from... Continue Reading →
3D Printing with Desmos: Stewie Griffin Using Desmos or Geogebra to design a picture or pattern is quite a nice exploration topic - but here's an idea to make your investigation stand out from the crowd - how about converting your image to a 3D printed design? Step 1 Create an image on Desmos or... Continue Reading →
Maths of Global Warming - Modeling Climate Change The above graph is from NASA's climate change site, and was compiled from analysis of ice core data. Scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) drilled into thick polar ice and then looked at the carbon content of air trapped in small bubbles in the... Continue Reading →
Plotting Stewie Griffin from Family Guy Computer aided design gets ever more important in jobs - and with graphing software we can create art using maths functions. For example the above graph was created by a user, Kara Blanchard on Desmos. You can see the original graph here, by clicking on each part of the... Continue Reading →