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For the last few months I've been volunteering at my daughter's high school to help the 12th graders review for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Maths Standard Level Exam in May 2015. In the process I produced these review notes that I thought could be useful to other students preparing for the exam as well. Review Notes for IB Maths Standard Level I'd be grateful if you email me with any mistakes you find so I can correct them. Best of luck on the upcoming exams.
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This pdf has the math SL tasks for 2012/2013. The tasks are: Type I: Lacsap’s Fractions Circles Type II: Fish Production Gold Medal Heights portofolio tasks for 2012 2013 SL.pdf
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Here they are. Type I: Infinite summation Stellar numbers Type II: Population trends in China G-Force tolerance Population Trends in China.pdf G-Force Tolerance IA.pdf Infinite Summation IA.pdf Stellar Numbers.pdf
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Hello everyone, currently I am writing a new math IA and i decided to write it under the topic of Projectile Motion. What what I want to do is take a video of a setter (in volleyball) and him setting the ball up. I'll take that video and create a graph and will derive that function. The thing is, I think that this is a little to vague, and I really don't have a clue on what to really explore within my topic. For the volleyball idea, I wanted to originally see what's the best place to put the ball in the air to get a good hit in for the spiker. If you have any further suggestions on what else I should do with this topic, I am open to any suggestions. Thank you!
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Hello! I am currently going into my 2nd year of the IB diploma in which I will be needing to do a Math IA (SL AA) in the upcoming months. I am thinking about something to do with - omelettes and eggs as my favorite food - Music (perhaps frequency spectrums) - Currency exchange rates (finance / econ) - Stock market Analysis Are there any specific units that I should avoid or go for in the IA? (Functions, Geometry and Trigonemtry, Calculus, Number and Algebra, Statistics and probability) Thank you.
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Hey so im doing my IA on how the height of a tsunami can be predicted based on an earthquakes magnitude. I was thinking of using the moment magnitude equation and doing something with it but im confused about the rigidity part. Could someone explain the formula, or provide me with a simpler idea for my IA?
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is anyone selling revision village accounts for math? i’m looking please hmu
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Hey guys, so there was a question on the math ib sl exam on this year and I was wondering... according to the markscheme, if a question was over 6 points, and I missed a step and ended up getting the wrong answer, would I get like a 3-4/6? It was the normal of the tangent and I didn't read "normal" and so didn't do m x m1 = -1. Hence, I didn't get the right answer but still recognized all the other steps to take. Thank you
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In this exploration, I want to see how mathematics is used to "predict" price movements by financial traders. This is very interesting to me as I want a career in Finance. Furthermore, I want to explore particular events such as the fall of the Lehman Brothers etc. and view correlations between stock valuation, output and market volatility. I also aim to find out what sort of correlations there are in particular stocks. I will use technical analysis (stats) on a particular stock index to find these price trends. The majority of the maths required in financial markets & trading is probability, statistics & stochastic calculus. The Black-Scholes equation (alth…
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My teacher has already asked for our ia drafts but I have done nothing, I was trying to research about pendulum movement in one of the attractions of an amusement park here in my city, but it seems that pendulums are more related to a physics topic than a math one so I really don't know how to continue. I would be thankful if someone could tell me if it's a good math ia topic or if should I change it. Thanks!! (btw english its not my first language but I'm desperate for help)
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Hello there, I need to submit my IA soon (I know that I am reaaaly late). However I got a confusion now concerning showing my calculations. I'm doing a Math AI SL AI in comparing the performances of two schools. I used for the statistic calculations (p-value, Standard Deviation, t-test, etc.) always the Ti-Nspire GDC software (as I learned in the course). As I wasn't sure how to show this GDC-work in my IA I asked my teacher. My teacher than told me I need to write everything in formulas. This led me completely confused. I do still not know how to show my GDC-work; the only thing I know is that I'm now completely confused whether showing the work in f…
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I need to choose a math IA topic but I wanted to base it off of something with art. We were told not to do the golden rule. anyone got any ideas I could go off of? I am in a IB SL mathematics class.
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Hi I need to calculate how long it would take to reestablish the world from its 2020 polluted atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to its state 100 years back. I used a simple formula (CO2 removal rate (bmt/year) = (initial CO2 emissions - final CO2 emissions) / time period (in years) however, my teacher says it is too little math, the IA needs more. I don't know what formula or calculation I can use. Can someone help me please.
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hi I'm doing my math ia now for math ia sl and I want to do Finding the correlation between the US dollar and Gold prices however all my data is secondary data with no primary data is it ok for my math ia to not have primary data or will it affect my grade.
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We are barely starting our Math IA SL and our teacher told us to come up with something personal. However, I was thinking about doing a probability method in the game go fish to be able to determine and choose the best chances of winning. I'm just kinda stuck how I could work with that since it is the only thing that comes to mind.
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I am writing an IA on the math behind RSA encryption, but I am struggling to find topics in the SL curriculum that I can apply to RSA encryption. I was considering using perms and combs/stats and prob but I can't find that much info on either. Any help or pointers would be much appreciated.
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Hi I am currently a ib myp grade 10 student who is doing a "mini ia" for math class. The topic is quadratic equations application exploration. I am thinking of doing a business optimization one but i am unsure of where i can start from or what topic i can choose. please help me think of what i can explore!!!!!! thanks if you have any other suggestions unrelated to business optimization feel free to tell me as well!!!!!!!!! i would really appreciate it if you want to see the task sheet or rubric of the assignment please let me know and i can send it to you Thanks again!!!!!!!!!
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Hey guys. I am taking Math AASL. I submitted my first draft and everything. My Math IA is based on finding a correlation (if any) between the average speed of 2 the 2 fastest NFL wide receivers per team, and these teams' win rates. I am evaluating only the 17 teams with the highest win rates. I have tried to find a linear regression, and a polynomial regression. However, the teacher said that its all good, she just hasn't marked me full marks in any of the criteria which is fine if they're all marked at least a 5. She also mentioned that maybe i can fit 1 or two more analysis tools. Does anyone have any suggestions for what else I can use to evaluate these two …
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Hey guys, I have a Math IA due on Sunday December 15, which is about 9 days from now. I want to do my topic on the golden ratio because firstly, I'm genuinely interested in it, and secondly, it's extremely risky to change topics at such a late stage. I know some of you will scold me for procrastinating on it but believe me I've legitimately been working on it. However, I'm having trouble finding an original idea based on the golden ratio. I did an introduction where I introduced it and such but I'm having trouble with how to proceed. I know it's supposed to be an exploration on a real-life thing because I looked at past IAs; even my teacher said that my topic is good but…
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Hello, I'm thinking about doing a correlation for my math IA. Would this be a good IA: Find the correlation between screen times and Deppression in the US on Teenagers I could look at 2020 and then look at 2013
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I'm wondering if anybody has IB Math SL AA Paper 1 for Nov 2022 both the question paper and mark scheme.
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would it be possible to do my maths ia for sl on Carmichael numbers and fermats little theorem and simplify it down because i really dont know what other topic to go for i wanted to do on golden ratio of beauty but i heard its overdone so
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Hello fellow IBers, so for my Math exploration I am modeling the population growth of the world. I've done some bits of it but now I'm completely lost. I'm not sure about what else to do. Any idea's about what I could possibly do and discuss in my exploration? Thank you.
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I'm wanting to do my IA on anything to do with voting, i keep hitting roadblocks in my work and i cant decide between a few ideas 1) modelling different systems, and seeing which is the most representative of our population (im running into issues here because i cant find a way to incorporate continuous data, but im not sure if working with discrete data will be a high enough level) 2) predicting the next election (im running into issues because im not sure whether conditional probability will work, i was thinking i could use bayesian stats or binomial distribution but im not sure) i also live in canada so i am dealing with a multi party system if any…
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Hi guys, so I need a bit of help with my math IA topic. It was due like yesterday but I haven't found a concrete topic yet. Initially I thought about social media algorithms, but its is simple division and addition and percentage which is in the portion but not potential for 12 pages. Then I thought about music and trigonometry, but again, seems more physics than maths. And now I am thinking about movies/photos. But I am not sure how to go on about it. If someone could help me as soon as possible with an idea it would be great.
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I searched it up and it says 12-20 pages long but does that include the bibliography, table of contents, and title page or is it 12-20 pages of pure investigation?
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Hi! I am doing my math IA on logarithms and earthquakes, however, I have no idea what to write on this topic as all of the research and formulas have been investigated and found. It is too late to change my topic and so I really need some ideas. How should I structure my IA? Please help!!!!! Thank you!
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Hi, For my math IA, I chose to do traffic flow. So far, I narrowed down my potential questions to: a) How do trucks contribute to traffic jams and b) What causes traffic jams. Do you guys think that one of these is a do-able topic question, or should i change it? How can i structure my IA to get a good mark? Thanks :))
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Hey guys, I really need you help. My IA is about billiard and the trigonomery and geometry in it, and use it to score a perfect match. I'm having some problems in how to organise and exactly what to do, I'm so lost that I dont really understand how to apply it. Anyone has a clue how to apply geometry and trigonometry in billiard. In Internet there is so much information that i dont know how to focus it. Some help would be awesome. THKS
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Hey does anyone have any ideas on what I can do my math ia on? I take Math A&I. I have to do an ia this year and I have no idea what I can do a math ia on.
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(Sorry this is so long but really need urgent help! Draft due next week!) Hi everyone, So I've been stuck on my Maths IA for a while after having to change topics because my old one was too fiddly. I've discussed doing the Birthday Paradox with my teacher, and she said it was a good topic. However, I'm on holidays now and have sent her an email asking about a problem I was having and possible solutions. In her reply she said she was worried I wasn't doing enough maths. What I was previously planning on doing in the IA was: - Discussing the Birthday Paradox itself and the maths behind it (how many people do you need to have in a group so that there is an over 50% p…
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I'm planning on making my math IA about F1 but im struggling a bit with my ideas I first thought of modeling or graphing an circuit using functions but i'm not sure if that's good enough for an IA. I saw a few people mention that they wrote IA's about tire degradation but I'm not entirely sure how they were able to do that. Like what info did they need and what are the steps to do this? Lastly i thought about optimization and was wondering if there is an IA topic related to F1 that i could make. Maybe with the racing line, but still not sure how to approach it. Any insight about a topic (even suggestions to imprive the current ones listed above) is hig…
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Hi! I was wondering how to approach my Math IA in regards to squash, a sport where a player hits a ball against a wall. I was thinking of calculating the serve of a player (me) in a 2D plane, using coordinates. Possibly contrasting two different serve types, overhand and underhand, and seeing how the ball travels in both scenarios. However, I am concerned about the physics involved in this, as I am not very comfortable diving very far into that. I am also looking for other ways I could investigate math in squash, If anyone has done an IA graphing the path of a ball/ or any object along a parabola, or If you have any tips, I would be grateful for any help …
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Hi, so i'm doing my math ia this year and i take aa sl. i was thinking of maybe doing ballet with math as there are a range of topics related such as trig, diffrentiation, golden ratio, etc... however i'm unsure whether it is enough to secure a high grade or not as i'm not sure there is enough math. I could make it more complex by modeling a pirouette/turn but i'm unsure on the maths to do that and how to analyze it. Another idea i had was to maybe do something with diffrentiation or trig as those are my topics of interest but i am struggling to pinpoint a specific question. Any ideas or thoughts would be helpful. Thanks
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Hi Guys, Can you please fill out this form for my math IA. ttps://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SmZ8DgXZ3UGwj2zpJGHrC48mqS2pUTdKkpT_OsD3cbtUNzJaSlo0N0NaQlM5WFVPQVgzVUhNQzJNNi4u
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hello, i've had some doubts about my IA. I am a big fan of anime, and in general i have always been impacted by the property damage in the shows and wondered how much they tallied up to... so mu question would be "how much would be the property damage of (insert anime show) would be in todays currency?" And if you wouldn't mind could you please send in some criticism and if this topic is doable.
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I am looking for a Math IA topic that can potentially involve Chemistry, to incorporate my love for the subject into my IA. My idea would be to use a simulation and look at molecular geometry optimisation, however at first glance it seems a bit far-fetched, out of my league in terms of level. Do you have any alternative recommendations or experience? Thx!
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Greetings, I'm a DP2 student who got stuck in completing the Math IA SL course since I've had lots of unfortunate events happen in the last 2 years, such as changing 4 math teachers and being on lockdown, which slowed me down in terms of completing the IA. Long story short, I've chosen non-Euclidean geometry for my IA and my aim is to examine the role of non-Euclidean geometry in navigation. Do you have any guidance or recommendations for me to follow since I've got 2-3 days to complete the final draft? Thanks in advance.
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This survey is for my math IA and is anonymous. I would really appreciate it if you could fill it out and answer honestly. Thank you in advance!♥ https://forms.gle/Bvd1dJiMi7pH3pbC6
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I'm currently gathering data for my Math IA. My survey is anonymous and only contains two questions about your GPA and Wordle score. If you get the chance to fill it out or send it to your Wordle playing friends, that would be amazing! Thanks everyone. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeFQrsejTs4bk7PhDaq8wxMmT2LeeWp5hB6nSIo2ls8NNFoEA/viewform
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Hey guys, so im doing an ia about the correlation of a players transfer fee and his characteristics and attributes (nationality, buyer/seller club standing, past season player rating etc.) and was wondering if doing graphs with data points, pearsons correlation, r squared is enough. I really would want to do standard deviation or chi square or fishers exact test but dont know how to do them trust me ive watched a lot of videos but my brain isnt functioning. Anyways I hope you guys can recommend me methods to use. Its due tomorrow lol (dont think im gonna submit it tomorrow though) so any feedback would be HIGHLY appreciated. Thanks
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I'm doing an SL Math IA for the first time and I'm really scared. I'm not even sure if my topic is valid or anything, nor has my teacher posted any exemplars to help guide me so I'm literally lost. Does anyone have any tips to format or write or anything? Thank you!
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So i started to work on fractal dimension as my IA topic but a-lot of teachers told me, you won't be able to reach to a particular conclusion for this topic. I explained that, main focus of my IA is investigating the coastline paradox as in how we can't accurately calculate the perimeter of the land because of its roughness and ziz zag lines. So i'll find it's fractal dimension and try to tell about the geography of the land furthermore compare it with other island's dimension. Plsss help me out
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Also if you know any helpful websites or ways to study please tell me.
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Hi guys I have a math Ia due by the end of this week, and I basically am not close to finishing. Im using probability and statistics to find the outcome of a football (Soccer) tournament. I need to find ways on how to do this. So far I used the poisson distribution to predict outcome of matches, but does anyone know how I can use the graphs in my IA (like how should I analyse it). And im also looking for other methods of calculating a match outcome, one where there is only loss or win for the knockout stages. The tournament I am predicting is the Euros 2020. Yes I know it has passed, but I'm trying to see how accurate can I be in predicting it. Any feedback is appreciated…
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Hello just a question what is the maximum page limit in a Math IA because I have around 23 but have a bunch of graphs and data tables.
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Can anyone please help me choose a topic for my Math Internal assessment and preferably about Black jack or a card game.
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So I'm currently working on my IA project and I'm debating between using statistics and probability (AI and AA), calculus (AA), or a mix of both. If you're wondering, last year I had AI math and this year the class did a majority vote for AA (yes I know it's super weird but with covid, AI and AA classes were mixed together and they're pretty similar according to my teacher so). Anyway, my topic is how a cure for Alzheimer's disease would affect mortality rates in the U.S. and what that would that look like on a graph (or whatever math visual). I'm using HIV/AIDs as a reference since dementia can occur with that if it infects the brain. It also has the closest thing to a t…
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Is correlation enough for Maths SL IA? "Correlation between MBTI and genetic inheritance"
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I'm doing my IA on the correlation between MBTI and genetic inheritance, which simply saying about inheriting personality traits, but I'm not sure if it's enough for SL though. My teacher said that if I use sth from math studies IB will like it, cuz it's from different level, so i joined their lessons to learn sth we didn't from statistics, but i've just read somewhere on this forum that correlation is not enough for SL. Is it so? If yes, what could I possibly add or change not to score badly? I've just started my experiment, which you can take part in btw (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5kBERe3yBDE5TUlfjVenmXL3pO_JyQlSJcCLXQZ25HP5-sQ/viewform?c=0&w=1), so…
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It's due in three days and I haven't started. Horrible, I know, but I have full confidence that once I figure out the direction I'll be able to do it. My topic is calculating the length of a road, basically using arc length, polynomial regression etc. But I reallyhave no idea how to go about the math portion. Please help.
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