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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.
Define sine and cosine for every angle with the unit circle. Find their signs, values and periods, and draw the graphs of all six functions, with their stretches and shifts.
Turn an angle past 360 degrees, or backwards, and measure it in radians, the natural unit of a circle. Then use radians to find arcs and sectors of wheels, clocks and tracks.
Convert metres to centimetres, and then centimetres to millimetres: two functions, one after the other. Can the two steps be one? Can we go back? In this course we add, multiply and compose functions, we find when a function can be reversed, and we use functions to model real data with Python.
A picture of a function tells you in a moment what a formula hides. In this course we read and draw the graphs of the common functions, we meet the modulus and the greatest integer function, and we learn how to move, stretch and flip a graph. We also learn to see even, odd, increasing and decreasing functions in a picture.
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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.
Can you find a function when you know only how it behaves? If f(x + y) = f(x) + f(y) for all x and y, what can f be? In this course we read three ideas that the main chapter only touches: equations whose unknown is a function, the number of solutions of an equation read from a graph (with the fixed points of a function), and the counting of onto functions. Then we solve harder problems at the level of JEE Advanced, A-Level Further Maths and IB Higher Level, and take an advanced timed test.