#gcse maths

[archerygun]

Interpretations of Rincewind and Twoflower I drew while reading The Light Fantastic in Maths. Yes my teacher does hate me thanks for asking.

#discworld #rincewind #the light fantastic #the colour of magic #sourcery #interesting times #rincewind the wizzard #twoflower #rincewind and twoflower #terry pratchett #gcse maths

[th3d0nutl0rd]

Dawg I am failing my resit

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel adam #adam hazbin hotel #resit student #i failed the first time round #and the second time round #gcse maths #resit maths #a levels #a level student #but make it realistic #this isn't an aesthetic study blog this is a catalogue of my mental illness #not a study blog

[for-my-mind-to-run-around-free]

Can we take a moment to send love and support to Nick practically having a panic attack during his maths GCSE.

If that was me, I would’ve died right then and there. That was my worst nightmare depicted on screen and I was too stressed out just by watching it.

#nick nelson #kit connor #heartstopper #heartstopper s2 #gcses 2023 #gcse exams #gcse maths

[wweasleyhp]

Forty First Week of Year 10

This week I started my exams. I had two English exams, Language and Literature, and I had a Maths Non Calculator exam. I don't think I did my best for my Language exam but I don't think I did the worst, same for my Maths exam but I'm worried because my Maths teacher expects a grade 7 from us so I don't know whether I'll move down a set. However, I am very confident that I did really good on my Literature exam which rarely happens because I have a low self esteem :)

Anyways, stay tuned for some more posts!

#gcse student #gcse mocks #gcse english #gcse maths

[alilsakurablossom]

our lord and saviour veggietales bob the tomato (hd png download) would not have been pleased with the carrots and tomato question

#gcse 2023 #gcse maths #edexcel i am in your walls #veggietales

[filminah]

a (very rare) math/science post.

hey! so i'm a british student but you'll see me putting things in brackets to help clarify things for my non british readers. so i did my GCSEs (i think the american equivalent is SATs?) back in may and june and one thing about me during my last year of school is i was in some deep shit. so i didn't really do that well. I got a bunch of 6s (B+s) and7 (A) in eng lit. i found i was couple marks off of a grade 7 (A ) in almost all my subjects including math and science. now i can deal with a B in art and a B in sociology because I'm doing them for A levels ( google tells me the americn equivalent is AP examinations) so doing well in them means that my gcse grade will be dismissed since i did better at A level today i asked my math teacher if there was any way i could resit and he cut me the following deal: if i resat my exams in either november or june of next year and got a better grade then he'd cover the fees and same goes for science. now, i just started sixth form/college so i'd have to learn in my own time somehow. i don't have anyone to teach me and i can't afford tutoring but i was offered to sit in the back of lessons during my free period every tuesday and that afterschool i can ask whatever available teacher for help for anything i really really can't teach myself should i go for it? please interact and tell me what you think.

#studyblr #amimi #gcse #student #study blog #study #gcse math #gcse maths #maths #mathstudents #mathsteacher #mathematics #gcse studyblr #gcse student #gcse 2022 #gcse exams #math exam #maths gcse tutor online #math student #mathblr

[gcse-culture-is]

GCSE Culture is your English teacher calling William Wordsworth the daddy of romantic poetry.

#true story #she said it with the emphasis as well #like 3 times too #gcse culture is #quotes from the classroom #gcse english #gcse #culture is blog #gcse languages #gcse maths #gcse science #gcse memes #culture is #secondary school #school memes

[anxiousgryffindor7]

Currently trying to write a draft for my EPQ which is due in 5 weeks!!!!! It is time for panic speed writing!!!!!!

#epq #gcse student #gcse studyblr #study motivation #studyblr #gcserevision #science #study tumblr #studying #aesthetic #gcse biology #catlife #chemistry #gcse maths #history #math studyblr #procrastination #cute cats #a level physics #a level computer science #a level exams #a level revision #a level psychology #quantum physics #quantum computing #computer #quantum entanglement

[armins-main-hoe]

Crying, screaming and dying.

That maths paper was meant to be the easiest out of the three???

Pls end me now.

What was that circle question at the end??

Pls I was sitting there with my hands crossed looking like I’ve aced the exam when in my head I’m cussing myself out for being so dumb.

#gcse #gcses 2022 #gcse student #gcse maths #gcse memes #student #school #obey me #lucifer #obey me luficer #please help #help lol

[further-from-maths]

Hi everyone!! Just wanted to do a little update now that we have our results!

I’m extremely happy with mine! I got a 9 Higher Maths and an 8 in FM!!! I’m so proud that I managed to get so high in FM especially. It’s a tricky course so I’m very pleased :)) My other subjects also went equally well!! :)))

I’m sure all of your grades were amazing :))) If you’re happy, then CELEBRATE! You did SO WELL!!!

If you’re not happy, remember:

7 is an A.

7 is an A!

High achieving schools are insane. Some schools have never seen a 7 in their life. We live in a completely different bubble where a 7 is inadequate. 7s are AWESOME. So are 6s!!!! You should be super duper proud of your results, especially if you put in a whole bunch of work to get there.

Right, enough rambling. With my grades and my subjects next year secure, my plan for this blog from now on is as follows:

- Focus on IB Higher Maths Analysis — if I feel like it, I might put up some stuff about my other subjects, but I want to try to keep this blog pretty maths-focussed.

- Revision session posts — this’ll mainly be to keep me accountable, but studyblr is a whole community on here so I doubt it’ll be tooooo out of place.

- Tutorials on tricky areas — again, mostly for me, but someone else might find it useful :)

- GCSE tuition — BIG maybe, but I would like to use my maths knowledge to help GCSE students prepare for their exams. If that ends up happening, I’ll probably talk about the process of getting all that set up!

- Whatever funny things I think about — …like video games or d&d and how maths relates to those. shut up I can have fun here this is my blog

- Crying over the IB — I’m kidding, I think it’ll be fun. But it is a heavy workload, so I’ll try to give tips on managing everything in a way that’s actually accessible and realistic.

I’ll update my banner and bio when school starts up again because I’m away from home right now wITHOUT MY CALCULATOR , but until then, have a wonderful rest of the summer and best of luck for the coming school year!

Sixth Form, here I come!

- Flash :)

#gcse results #gcse maths #results day #gcse further maths #sixth form #ib diploma #ibdp #study blog #studyblr #ib student #gcse student #gcse #gcse studyblr #ib studyblr #exam season #update

[lauraroseee]

For anyone who is getting their gcse results tomorrow morning good luck 🫶🏻

#charlie spring #heartstopper #nick and charlie #nick nelson #alice oseman #tori spring #lgbtq #i’m bi actually #micheal holden #tao and elle #history #gcse maths #gcses 2023 #24th august 2023 #good luck #gcse student

[uncontrolledfission]

Facts about Pi you probably didn't know

Post #19 on [Maths,] Physics and Astronomy, 16/07/23

I lied, my next post is not about nucleosynthesis in merging neutron stars. I watched a Veritasium video about how Pi was revolutionised and it totally had me encapsulated, so after some extra reading, here I am with some facts about Pi you weren't taught in school! I wish that we were taught about some of the fascinating history behind the maths taught in school. It's interesting as-is, but you'd think students would be a lot more engaged, right?

Pictured: Ludolph van Ceulen, the German-Dutch mathematician responsible for calculating Pi to 35 digits of accuracy by bisecting polygons. In some places in Germany, Pi is sometimes still referred to as the Ludolphine number.

Archimedes of Syracuse is the man [somewhat] known for taking the most iconic bath in history. One day, he slipped into the bathtub and realised that the volume of water displaced was equal to the volume of his own body; realising this, he determined he could work out if a piece of jewellery was made of pure gold based off of its density. He realised the King of Syracuse's crown wasn't made of pure gold, and ran into the streets naked shouting, 'Eureka!' This has nothing to do with bisecting polygons, but it's a fun anecdote I wanted to share.

What he's better known for is being the first documented person to cook up a way to calculate Pi. To do this, he drew a hexagon, then a circle inside, and another hexagon inside that. The following diagram shows this:

Here's the best explanation I can offer of this diagram. You see the circle? Assume its diameter is 1. Since the inner hexagon is equilateral, you can determine that its perimeter is 3 (each side is length 0.5). Using a method that's annoying to explain and essentially akin to early trigonometry, the outer hexagon's perimeter was determined to be 3√2. This already gives us an error interval for the value of Pi:

~3.46 > Pi > 3

Fascinating, right? Safe to say I'd never have thought of that. What's cooler is that, as shown in the diagram, the higher the number of sides in those polygons, the higher the degree of accuracy to which Pi can be worked out.

There comes van Ceulen, aforementioned. He spent 25 years of his life bisecting a polygon with approximately 32,212,254,720 sides, getting Pi to a grand total of... 20 decimals. This was later brought up to 30 decimals. These digits were engraved on his tombstone, rest his soul.

Following this, a great number of formulae to calculate Pi emerged. More commonly known is the infinite series.

This formula also works out the decimals of Pi, and it was devised by Gottfried Leibniz and John Gregory. Pi, being the pinnacle of anarchy in maths, now had a strange sense of order to it. This formula essentially states that (Pi / 4) is equal to 1 minus a third, plus a fifth, and so on so forth. A relatively unproblematic formula could work it out.

It's worth mentioning that the infinite series was derived from calculus, also invented by Leibniz. However, Newton had also independently come up with calculus. A great deal of time was spent arguing over it; but old papers suggest it was an Indian mathematician named Madhava who had come up with it before them.

This formula isn't all too efficient. It took nearly 300 terms of the series to get Pi accurate to 2 decimal places.

However, the popularisation of calculus meant that other formulas had been created to work Pi's decimal places out. Then, it merely became a race of who could get the highest number. Any number of decimal places above 4 was unnecessary; engineers could do their job perfectly with Pi being 3.1415. It seemed as though the young, adventurous mathematicians of the age were concerned less about practicality, and more with the extent of their achievements. For that, I have a lot of respect.

Sources:

Veritasium, the discovery that transformed Pi

Alex's Adventures in Numberland, by Alex Bellos. (Book so I have no link.) Both latter images taken from the book.

#physics #gcse #astronomy #studyblr #astrophysics #engineering #stem #maths #mathematics #pi is so fucking cool #pi #transcendental numbers #mathematiques #gcse maths #I LOVE MATHS #genuinely considering a maths degree icl

[bookobsessedblob]

me now knowing that petrol costs less in wales than it does in spain:

#nah man i made so many mistakes this exam i just know it #blame the cramps not me #gcse #maths #gcses 2022 #gcse maths

[wik-likes-studying-and-films]

Whats does GCSE means?

btw, love your blog!

first of all, tysm!!! you're so kind!!

okay, so GCSE (general certificate of secondary education) is a bunch of exams that british high schoolers do in may - june of year 11 (grade 10). you study between 8-9 subjects over a period of 2 years - i'm doing 11 since i did maths a year early and i'm doing polish as a native speaker.

all students do english language and literature, maths (i'm doing further maths as well), and sciences (you can do combined or triple; i do triple which just means i have more content to cover and it counts as 3 GCSEs rather than 2). you can also choose some subjects yourself, i do economics, spanish, history, and polish outside of school.

every subject has between 2-4 exams, each of which lasts around 1-2 hours. art, music, and design technology (among others) have a practical element as well!

the grading is between 9-1 (9 being equivalent to A++, 8 is A+, 7 is A, 6 is B and etc.) if you get below a 4 (C), you fail that GCSE but you can retake it in November.

in my opinion (compared to the SAT), the course material is more more rigorous and challenging than the american system (pls don't come for me, this is just my impression based on my limited info!!!). also, the grade boundaries are incredibly high, only 5% of students recieve a grade 9 in a subject.

after you do your gcses, you start your a-levels. you'll choose at least 3 subjects (i'll probably do 4, but i'm not sure which yet!). you study these VERY in-depth, and you do your as-levels at the end of year 12 (grade 11). some people drop a subject after their as-levels (if they did more than 3), since an as-level is worth 40% of an a-level. you do your a-levels in may-june of year 13 (grade 12), and these determine what universities you get into (the process is more complicated than that, if you want i'll explain it in a different post)!

i hope this helps, and tysm for your kind words! let me know if you have any more questions!

#studyblr #student #study #studying #notes #revision #writing #students #productivity #studyspo #study methods #study update #study study study #study habits #study tips #gcse maths #gcse #gcse student #gcse studyblr #a level 2022

[thekittyburger]

I don't think the higher maths exam was that bad to be honest, compared to the atrocity that was paper 1

#kitty screams #gcse #gcse maths #edexcel #gcses 2023

[gcsememesarchived]

if I ever see a circle again I WILL spontaneously combust and it’s all edexcel’s fault

#gcse #gcsememes #gcse2022 #gcse maths #gcse edexcel #edexcel #THOSE CIRCLES URGH