Murderous Maths

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a chief examiner for GCSE maths. Brian's a really nice bloke who wears frightening ties and supports his Resources (including past papers and revision notes) prepared by qualified teachers to help students studying for A Level, GCSE, IGCSE and IB exams.

Here are the instructions to draw the diagram pictured on the right. (Photo taken at the North East Maths Fair June 2001)Extremely rare picture of Kjartan Poskitt and Philip Reeve both smiling because they each think the other one is about to pay the restaurant bill. Savage Shapes (previously Vicious Circles and Other Savage Shapes), ISBN 0-439-99747-X (signs in geometric diagrams, Loci, constructions: perpendicular bisectors; dropping perpendiculars; bisecting angles, triangles: similar; congruent; equal areas, polygons: regular; irregular; angle sizes and construction, tessellations and Penrose Tiles, origami, circles: chord; tangent; angle theorems, regular solids, Euler's formula, ellipses, Geometric proof of Pythagoras' Theorem.) Teachers and homeschoolers might be interested in the guide to the maths in the mm books otherwise try the teacher resources or our A-Z guide. CIRCLES: ASAS 49-57, SAVSH 100-120, PSAUS 152-157, The Names of Bits of Circles Quiz, How to find the centre of a circle using a book, How to make a Circle into a Square Everything from basic substitution codes up to the RSA code used for sending credit card details over the internet!

Polygons: ASAS 129-154, SAVSH 56-99, PSAUS 116-126, tan area formula FANG 126-128, The Research Lab Desperate Measures (previously Desperate Measures: Length, Area and Volume), ISBN 0-439-01370-4 (measuring lines: units and accuracy, old measuring systems, the development of metric, the SI system and powers of ten, shapes, measuring areas and area formulas, weight, angles, measuring volume, Archimedes Principle, density, time and how the modern calendar developed.) The Murderous Maths books have been published in over 25 countries. The books, which are aimed at children aged 8 and above, teach maths, spanning from basic arithmetic to relatively complex concepts such as the quadratic formula and trigonometry. The books are written in an informal similar style to the Horrible Histories, Horrible Science and Horrible Geography series, involving evil geniuses, gangsters, and a generally comedic tone. If you don't want to measure everything out yourself, you can just print off the triflexagon template.year-olds (and their parents!) across the UK were moaning about this probability/algebra question in the GCSE maths exams.