Biology for Cambridge IGCSE™ Maths Skills Workbook with Digital Access (2 Years)

Description

The maths skills workbook helps learners to develop their maths skills in the context of the Cambridge IGCSE™ Biology syllabus. These skills are crosslinked to the coursebook to help students understand how to use them. Practice exercises provide opportunities for learners to practise each maths skill. To support students in acquiring these skills, the exercises gradually increase in complexity. Practice questions provide opportunities for students to practise their skills in an active learning format such as discussion opportunities and pair work. Exam-style questions give students the chance to apply the skills they have learnt in an exam-style context. In the last chapter, students will need to select which maths skills they ought to apply in different contexts, without the structure and guidance provided in each of the chapters, helping them become confident, independent learners.

Key Features

• Written by experts in both biology and mathematics based on research carried out by the Nuffield Foundation and the Association for Science Education (ASE)
• Maths skills are crosslinked to other resources in the series to help students understand how to use them
• Practice exercises gradually increase in complexity to support students in developing maths skills
• Worked examples illustrate the concept, provide a skills-based step-by-step approach to answering a question, helping learners to develop their thinking processes
• The ‘Look out’ feature makes students aware of common misconceptions that might be holding them back
• Exam-style questions require students to select which maths skills they ought to apply in different contexts, without the structure and guidance provided in each of the chapters, helping them become confident, independent learners

Table of Contents

1. How to use this series
2. How to use this book
3. Introduction
4. Skills grid
5. Representing values
6. Using units
7. Choosing the correct unit
8. Using unit symbols
9. Using derived units
10. Representing very large and very small numbers
11. Writing very large numbers in standard form
12. Writing very small numbers in standard form
13. Using unit prefixes and converting units
14. Using powers of ten
15. Using negative powers of ten
16. Using unit prefixes
17. Converting units
18. Exam-style questions
19. Working with data
20. Naming types of data
21. Identifying independent and dependent variables
22. Identifying types of data
23. Collecting data
24. Choosing a suitable measuring instrument
25. Reading the correct value on measuring instruments
26. Using the correct number of significant figures
27. Recording and processing data
28. Designing a suitable results table
29. Calculating the mean
30. Exam-style questions
31. Drawing graphs and charts
32. Drawing bar charts
33. Choosing a suitable scale for the y-axis
34. Drawing histograms
35. Putting the data into classes
36. Drawing line graphs
37. Drawing the axes
38. Plotting the data points
39. Drawing the line or curve of best fit
40. Exam-style questions
41. Interpreting data
42. Interpreting bar charts, histograms and pie charts
43. Identify the categories and describe what the data show
44. Interpreting relationships in graphs
45. Interpreting straight-line graphs
46. Interpreting more complex line graphs
47. Interpreting scatter graphs
48. Reading values from a line graph
49. Interpolation
50. Extrapolation
51. Exam-style questions
52. Doing calculations
53. Calculating percentages
54. Calculating percentages
55. Calculating percentage change
56. Using scale drawings and magnification
57. Interpreting scale drawings
58. Using the magnification formula
59. Understanding ratio and probability
60. Calculating ratio
61. Calculating probability
62. Exam-style questions
63. Working with shape
64. Calculating area
65. Calculating the surface area of a cube and a rectangular block
66. Calculating the area of a circle
67. Exam-style questions
68. Additional questions involving several maths skills
69. Glossary
70. Acknowledgements.