Kent Mathematics Project Level Eight

This resource from Ward Lock Educational contains exercises and tests for the Kent Mathematics Project which relate to Level Eight. They are arranged in numerical order and were allocated with reference to the Level Eight Concept Network.

The Kent Mathematics Project was developed to accommodate students' ability rather than focussing on their chronological age. The original Kent Maths Project started in the 1960s, well before the National Curriculum. The material has been reprinted since. The levels refer to the Concept Network. As a guide, level one is designed for the average nine-year-old student while level eight is O level material up to grade A.

Contents include:

• Book 8a - a student's text book covering: Fibonacci and nature • Rationals and surds • Identifying proportion • Moving averages • Mutually exclusive events • Deriving the cosine formula • Geometric properties • Cones • Stretches • Matrix algebra rules • Vectors and transformations • Self-inverse functions • Rearranging formulae. Rates of change • Motif • Headlines • Practical approaches to statistics • Sines and cosines of obtuse angles • Angles and planes • Propositions • Alternate segment theorem • Topology revision • Transformation evidence and proof • Matrices, inverses and equations • Distances, bearings and vectors Difference of two squares • Gradients of curves • Binary operations • Shapes on triangles • Forming quadratic equations • Simple and compound interest • Inverse square law • Getting a six • Double transformations • Completing the square • Distance-time curves • Three-dimensional lattice problem.
• Book 8b - a student's text book covering: Histograms • Sines and cosines of reflex angles • Cones and surface areas • Topological matrices • Invariant properties • Combining simultaneous equations • Solution sets • Errors • Data handling • The trigonometric functions • Hexagonal pyramid calculations • Intersecting chords • Spheres. Transformation areas • Functions and inverses • Factorising quadratics • Graphical solutions • Changing speed • Sprouts • The golden ratio • Calculating the standard deviation • Non-independent events • How many solutions? • Circle problems • Inverse transformations. Resultant velocities • Transforming quadratics • Quadratic equations formula • Areas under curves • Growth rates • Polygon ratios • Real numbers • Using the standard deviation • Transforming trigonometric curves • Geometrical proofs • Duality and Schlegel diagrams • Shears Inverse matrices •Exponential functions • Fractional equations • Functions from data • Relations • Strings.
• Level 8 test book - contains a selection of short tests which relate to the tasks in books 8a and 8b