Essential Maths Skills for AS/A-level Geography
Published on 30. September 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-4718-6355-4 (ISBN)
Description
Exam Board: AQA, OCR, Edexcel, WJEC Eduqas, WJEC
Level: A-level
Subject: Geography
First teaching: September 2016
First exams: Summer 2017 (AS), Summer 2018 (A-level)
Don't let your students miss out on easy marks; help them improve their skills and feel confident about the maths they need for AS/A-level Geography with this essential guide.
If your students struggle with student t-test or Spearman rank correlation, this is the book for them. This textbook companion will improve students' essential maths skills for geography, whichever awarding body specification you're following. You can use it throughout the course, whenever you feel your students need some extra help.
- Develop understanding of both maths and geography using worked examples and questions that are all set within a geography context
- Improve confidence with a step-by-step approach to every maths skill
- Measure progress with guided and non-guided questions that show how students are improving
- Enable students to see where they're going wrong by referring to full worked solutions for every question
- Feel confident with expert guidance from experienced teacher, examiner, and specification developer Helen Harris, reviewed by Steve Brace, Head of Education & Outdoor Learning at the Royal Geographical Society
Level: A-level
Subject: Geography
First teaching: September 2016
First exams: Summer 2017 (AS), Summer 2018 (A-level)
Don't let your students miss out on easy marks; help them improve their skills and feel confident about the maths they need for AS/A-level Geography with this essential guide.
If your students struggle with student t-test or Spearman rank correlation, this is the book for them. This textbook companion will improve students' essential maths skills for geography, whichever awarding body specification you're following. You can use it throughout the course, whenever you feel your students need some extra help.
- Develop understanding of both maths and geography using worked examples and questions that are all set within a geography context
- Improve confidence with a step-by-step approach to every maths skill
- Measure progress with guided and non-guided questions that show how students are improving
- Enable students to see where they're going wrong by referring to full worked solutions for every question
- Feel confident with expert guidance from experienced teacher, examiner, and specification developer Helen Harris, reviewed by Steve Brace, Head of Education & Outdoor Learning at the Royal Geographical Society
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Learning
Target group
College/higher education
Interest Age: From 16 to 19 years
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 211 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4718-6355-4 (9781471863554)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Helen Harris
Content
Introduction Understanding Data - Nominal, ordinal and interval data - Ratios and fractions - Percentages - Densities Measures of central tendency - Mean, median and mode - Frequency distributions Measures of dispersion - Range interquartile range and standard deviation Measures of concentration - Nearest neighbour index - Location quotient - Lorenz curves Measures of correlation - Scatter graphs and lines of best fit - Spearman rank correlation coefficient Testing for differences between data sets - Student's t test - Mann-Whitney U test - Chi-squared test Exam style questions - AS level questions - A Level questions Appendix 1 - Statistical tables Appendix 2 - Choosing statistical methods for geographical fieldwork Appendix 3 - Key terms Appendix 4 - Specification cross-reference