An assistant examiner and teacher explains to students in simple, practical steps how to earn full marks on their individual exploration for HL or SL Mathematics. This book is intended for students taking either "Applications and Interpretation" or "Analysis and Approaches." Please note: if you are graduating in 2020 or before, you should buy the previous edition of this book. This edition is for the new courses--"Applications and Interpretation" and "Analysis and Approaches"--which will be taught beginning in August 2019 with first exams in May 2021.
This book is a step by step guide to help you achieve a full 10/10 marks on the Theory of Knowledge (ToK) presentation for the IB Diploma. Group and topic selection, the journey from real world question to knowledge question and back, linking areas of knowledge (AoKs) with ways of knowing (WoKs), and the importance of the Theory of Knowledge Presentation Planning Document (TK/PPD) are all discussed.
This short step by step guide to earning full marks on the International Baccalaureate science extended essay (including biology, chemistry, and physics) gives guidance and assistance to students to maximize their extended essay marks. Important changes from the previous EE, such as the new form EE/RPPF required at the start of the EE process, are highlighted for advisors as well as students so that nothing stands between a student and their A on their EE.
The original article on using a rover with greenhouses to harvest water from the soil on Mars as part of a manned Mars mission as presented on August 12, 2000 at the 3rd Annual Mars Society Conference and as published in the proceedings--On to Mars: Colonizing a New World. Please note, this book contains just one of the many wonderful articles in On to Mars: Colonizing a New World. 25% of the proceeds received by Rainbowdash Publishers LLC from the sale of this title are donated to the Mars Society.
Analytic combinatorics aims to enable precise quantitative predictions of the properties of large combinatorial structures. The theory has emerged over recent decades as essential both for the analysis of algorithms and for the study of scientific models in many disciplines, including probability theory, statistical physics, computational biology, and information theory. With a careful combination of symbolic enumeration methods and complex analysis, drawing heavily on generating functions, results of sweeping generality emerge that can be applied in particular to fundamental structures such as permutations, sequences, strings, walks, paths, trees, graphs and maps. This account is the definitive treatment of the topic. The authors give full coverage of the underlying mathematics and a thorough treatment of both classical and modern applications of the theory. The text is complemented with exercises, examples, appendices and notes to aid understanding. The book can be used for an advanced undergraduate or a graduate course, or for self-study.
Featuring a wealth of digital content, this concept-based Print and Enhanced Online Course Book Pack has been developed in cooperation with the IB to provide the most comprehensive support for the new DP Mathematics: analysis and approaches HL syllabus, for first teaching in September 2019.
You’re outnumbered, in fear for your life, surrounded by flesheating zombies. What can save you now? Mathematics, of course. Mathematical Modelling of Zombies engages the imagination to illustrate the power of mathematical modelling. Using zombies as a “hook,” you’ll learn how mathematics can predict the unpredictable. In order to be prepared for the apocalypse, you’ll need mathematical models, differential equations, statistical estimations, discretetime models, and adaptive strategies for zombie attacks—as well as baseball bats and Dire Straits records (latter two items not included). In Mathematical Modelling of Zombies, Robert Smith? brings together a highly skilled team of contributors to fend off a zombie uprising. You’ll also learn how modelling can advise government policy, how theoretical results can be communicated to a nonmathematical audience and how models can be formulated with only limited information. A forward by Andrew Cartmel—former script editor of Doctor Who, author, zombie fan and all-round famous person in science-fiction circles—even provides a genealogy of the undead. By understanding how to combat zombies, readers will be introduced to a wide variety of modelling techniques that are applicable to other real-world issues (biology, epidemiology, medicine, public health, etc.). So if the zombies turn up, reach for this book. The future of the human race may depend on it.
Employing a practical, "learn by doing" approach, this first-rate text fosters the development of the skills beyond the pure mathematics needed to set up and manipulate mathematical models. The author draws on a diversity of fields — including science, engineering, and operations research — to provide over 100 reality-based examples. Students learn from the examples by applying mathematical methods to formulate, analyze, and criticize models. Extensive documentation, consisting of over 150 references, supplements the models, encouraging further research on models of particular interest. The lively and accessible text requires only minimal scientific background. Designed for senior college or beginning graduate-level students, it assumes only elementary calculus and basic probability theory for the first part, and ordinary differential equations and continuous probability for the second section. All problems require students to study and create models, encouraging their active participation rather than a mechanical approach. Beyond the classroom, this volume will prove interesting and rewarding to anyone concerned with the development of mathematical models or the application of modeling to problem solving in a wide array of applications.
