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Pascal's triangle and the expansion of (a + b) to the power n for a whole number n. The general term, the middle term or terms, and the term that is free of x.
The sum of the coefficients, the relations among them, and sums that use them. Then finding remainders, proving divisibility and approximating large powers.
The slope of a line and the angle it makes with the x-axis, the angle between two lines, parallel and perpendicular lines, and collinear points. Then the equation of a line in point-slope, two-point, slope-intercept and intercept forms.
The general equation Ax + By + C = 0 and its normal form. The distance from a point to a line and between parallel lines, and which side of a line a point is on. Families of lines through an intersection, and the shift of origin.
Sequences given by a formula or a rule, series and sigma notation, then arithmetic progressions in depth: the nth term, the sum, properties, and the arithmetic mean.
Geometric progressions: the nth term, the sum of n terms and the sum to infinity, the geometric mean, and the relation between the arithmetic and geometric means.
Count choices made one after another with the multiplication principle, separate cases with the addition principle, and meet the factorial.
Arrangements when order matters: the formula for nPr, arrangements with repeated objects, and arrangements under conditions such as letters that must stay together.
Selections when order does not matter: the formula for nCr, its properties, and problems that mix selecting and arranging.
Meet i, write numbers as a + ib, and add, subtract, multiply and divide them. Find powers of i, and the identities that still hold for complex numbers.
Picture complex numbers as points, find their modulus and conjugate and what they mean on the plane, then solve quadratic equations with a negative discriminant and find square roots of complex numbers.
Prove the formula for the cosine of a sum, and build every other formula from it: sums, differences, double and triple angles, and the change of a sum into a product.
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Beyond the textbook: the greatest term and the greatest coefficient, and the coefficient of a power in a product of expansions. Then sums of series with binomial coefficients, the problems that JEE and A-Level Further Maths ask most, with a full timed paper.
Beyond the textbook: the locus of a moving point, the bisectors of the angles between two lines, and the reflection of a point or ray in a line. Then the centres of a triangle and pairs of lines, the straight-line problems that JEE and A-Level Further Maths ask most, with a full timed paper.
The series that JEE, A-Level Further Maths and IB Higher Level ask most: sums of n, n squared and n cubed, arithmetico-geometric series, telescoping sums and the method of differences, with a full timed paper.
The counting problems that JEE, A-Level Further Maths and maths olympiads set most: circular arrangements, distributing objects into groups, the gaps method, and counting by complements and cases, with a full timed paper.
Beyond the textbook: the polar form, multiplication as a rotation, the cube roots of unity, and loci on the Argand plane, the parts that JEE, A-Level Further Maths and IB Higher Level ask about most, with a full timed paper.
What the exams add to this chapter: solving trigonometric equations, the greatest and least values of an expression, and identities in a triangle, each with worked examples, and a full timed paper.