, GCSE
Maths
Paul Metcalf
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, Contents
Get the most out of your Instant Revision e-book __________iii
Number: __________________________________________1
definitions; directed numbers; indices; significant figures and
decimal places; without a calculator; estimation; fractions,
decimals and percentages; ratio and proportion; standard form;
compound measures; interest; further Number (higher);
rational and irrational numbers; fractional indices; upper and
lower bounds
Algebra: __________________________________________29
expressions, equations and sequences; graphs; quadratic
equations; simultaneous equations; areas and tangents of
graphs (higher); formulae, functions and graphs (higher)
Shape, Space & Measures: ____________________________59
angles and polygons; symmetry; transformations;
constructions; length, area and volume; Pythagoras;
trigonometry; trigonometry and circle properties (higher);
vectors; further Shape, Space & Measures (higher)
Handling Data: ____________________________________93
representing data; central tendency and measures of spread;
scatter diagrams and correlation; probability; histograms and
standard deviation (higher); further Handling Data (higher)
Acknowledgements ________________________________121
iii
Maths
Paul Metcalf
Series Editor:
Jayne de Courcy
,PerfectBound
An e-book from HarperCollins Publishers
77–85 Fulham Palace Road
Hammersmith, London W6 8JB
First published 2001
© HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd, 2001
Paul Metcalf asserts the moral right to be identified as the author
of this work
Acrobat eBook Reader edition v 1. April 2001
ISBN: 0-00-712981-5
All rights reserved. You have been granted a non-exclusive, non-
transferable licence to access and read the text of this e-book on-
screen. Unless expressly authorised no part of this text may
reproduced, stored in an information retrieval system, or trans-
mitted, down-loaded, de-compiled or reverse engineered in any
form or by any means now known or hereinafter invented without
the express prior permission of the publishers.
Design by Gecko Limited
www.fireandwater.com/ebooks
ii
, Contents
Get the most out of your Instant Revision e-book __________iii
Number: __________________________________________1
definitions; directed numbers; indices; significant figures and
decimal places; without a calculator; estimation; fractions,
decimals and percentages; ratio and proportion; standard form;
compound measures; interest; further Number (higher);
rational and irrational numbers; fractional indices; upper and
lower bounds
Algebra: __________________________________________29
expressions, equations and sequences; graphs; quadratic
equations; simultaneous equations; areas and tangents of
graphs (higher); formulae, functions and graphs (higher)
Shape, Space & Measures: ____________________________59
angles and polygons; symmetry; transformations;
constructions; length, area and volume; Pythagoras;
trigonometry; trigonometry and circle properties (higher);
vectors; further Shape, Space & Measures (higher)
Handling Data: ____________________________________93
representing data; central tendency and measures of spread;
scatter diagrams and correlation; probability; histograms and
standard deviation (higher); further Handling Data (higher)
Acknowledgements ________________________________121
iii
