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January 30th, 2015

1/30/2015

Looked at depreciation questions from section 5.3.
Videos of these examples are on Financial Maths Page
HW: Be able to do questions from 5.1 and 5.2

Financial Maths

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After solving Q.4 of the Sequences and Series Revision Questions we started Chapter 5 Financial Maths (5.1 Compound interest).
We looked at the first two examples and did a question converting AER to MER.

HW Look at remaining examples in Section 5.1 and Try questions from this section.

Financial Maths Page

Financial Maths: Compound Interest Formulae

Students need to be able to convert AER to MER.

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January 27th, 2015

1/27/2015

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Tests returned and looked over Long Question.

HW Try Khan Academy Questions on the Revision page linked below.

2013_p1_q7_sequences.._17-1-2015.pdf
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Sequences and Series Revision

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January 26th, 2015

1/26/2015

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Test on Patterns, Sequences and Series. Solutions and marking Schemes linked below

Q.1 LCHL 2013 P.1 Q.9

Q.2 LCHL 2011 P.1 Q.4 b

Q.3 T&T6 Ex.1 Sec. 4.3

HW: Do questions 1 and 3-6 on Sequences revision page linked below.

Sequences & Series Revision

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January 23rd, 2015

1/23/2015

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Looked at the example from 4.6 Finding the Formula for a Cubic Pattern (as in video).

HW: Ex. 4.6 Q. 2 and 7
Prepare for test on Chapter 4 on Monday

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Sequence and Series Revision

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January 21st, 2015

1/21/2015

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Today we looked at a HW question involving logs from 4.4 then we looked at the 4.5 finding the infinite sum of a geometric series. We used this to write a recurring decimal in fractional form. HW: get ready for test on Monday on Chapter 4. Revision videos, sample questions and Khan academy exercises that you are to do are linked on the 'Sequence and Series' Revision page.

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Sequences and Series Revision

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January 16th, 2015

1/16/2015

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Today we started by looking at logs and the meaning of the log of a number. We then looked at example 5 from section 4.4 Geometric Sequences and a HW question from this section.