IB Maths Resources from Intermathematics
IB Maths Resources: 300 IB Maths Exploration ideas, video tutorials and Exploration Guides
Cooling Curves: Dead bodies and fridges All the maths behind this fits for cooling bodies - whether objects placed in fridges or dead bodies cooling over time - and this idea is used in CSI investigations to work out the time of death of bodies. I will do this investigation with a Microbit - which... Continue Reading →
Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse This is part 2 in the maths behind zombies series. See part 1 here We have previously looked at how the paper from mathematicians from Ottawa University discuss the mathematics behind surviving the zombie apocalypse - and how the mathematics used has many other modelling applications - for understanding the spread... Continue Reading →
How Infectious is Ebola? Ebola is the latest virus to warrant global fears over a pandemic which infects large numbers of people. Throughout history we have seen pandemic diseases such as the Black Death in Middle Ages Europe and the Spanish Flu at the beginning of the 20th century. More recently we have seen HIV... Continue Reading →
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Real life use of Differential Equations Differential equations have a remarkable ability to predict the world around us. They are used in a wide variety of disciplines, from biology, economics, physics, chemistry and engineering. They can describe exponential growth and decay, the population growth of species or the change in investment return over time. A... Continue Reading →