Material created by students working with the School of Mathematics, Statistics & Physics E-Learning Unit at Newcastle University over the summer of 2017, to support students making the transition from school to university.

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Chris Graham commented on Match statement to graphs 8 years, 4 months ago

I've turned this from giving all of the statements first (which required much scrolling up and down), to several one-from-a-list parts. I think it's easier to work with. 

The setup of this question was extraordinarily complicated, with dozens of variables. I've removed basically all of them, and added the random names extension.

It's checkpointed below, should anyone wish to revert to the original.

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Chris Graham on Match statement to graphs 8 years, 4 months ago

Saved a checkpoint:

I'm checkpointing this before splitting into parts.

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Straight line equation application: measuring sunflower height 8 years, 4 months ago

Saved a checkpoint:

Looks OK.

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Straight line equation application: measuring sunflower height 8 years, 4 months ago

Gave some feedback: Ready to use

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Christian Lawson-Perfect commented on Straight line equation application: measuring sunflower height 8 years, 4 months ago

Bit of a shame that you didn't set a checkpoint before rewriting Brad's text.

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Chris Graham on Straight line equation application: measuring sunflower height 8 years, 4 months ago

Gave some feedback: Needs to be tested

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Chris Graham commented on Straight line equation application: measuring sunflower height 8 years, 4 months ago

This was originally "watching grass grow". I have changed the context from 1st to 3rd person and changed grass to a sunflower, which seems a much more likely thing to measure.

Also used the random names extension, and as a result I've changed quite a lot of this, so I'm marking needs to be tested.

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Chris Graham commented on Converting between Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions 8 years, 4 months ago

I've changed the status to "should not be used", as this has been split into separate questions.

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Chris Graham on Converting between Mixed Numbers and Improper Fractions 8 years, 4 months ago

Gave some feedback: Should not be used

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Chris Graham on Match statement to graphs 8 years, 4 months ago

Gave some feedback: Has some problems

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Chris Graham commented on Match statement to graphs 8 years, 4 months ago

The layout could be better. I think a single statement followed by multiple choice images may be easier to work with.

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Chris Graham on Finding the highest common factor of two numbers 8 years, 4 months ago

Gave some feedback: Ready to use

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Chris Graham commented on Finding the highest common factor of two numbers 8 years, 4 months ago

I've split off the prime numbers part into its own question and re-used the variables from part a) in b) and c), so that the parts lead on from eachother.

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Chris Graham commented on Prime numbers 8 years, 4 months ago

I've split this from a larger question. I'm not sure how will fit with the other material but we can make a decision on keeping it later.

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Chris Graham on Prime numbers 8 years, 4 months ago

Gave some feedback: Ready to use

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Chris Graham on Geometric Sequence - negative ratio 8 years, 4 months ago

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Chris Graham commented on Geometric Sequence - negative ratio 8 years, 4 months ago

I've renamed the variables to be consistent with the notation used in the question and changed the range of $r$, so that the answer to c) is less likely to be very large.

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Chris Graham commented on Calculate density given mass and volume 8 years, 4 months ago

Looks good.

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Chris Graham on Calculate density given mass and volume 8 years, 4 months ago

Gave some feedback: Ready to use