This page contains links to online resources, and the topics selected are based around frequently occurring queries that students have at our free Secondary School drop-in service.
The material is listed alphabetically, and the headings used (Algebra, Complex Numbers, Logarithms, Percent-Decimal-Friaction, Probability, Sequences and Series, Trigonometry, Volume) are the typical topic headings used in second level mathematics in Ireland.
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Algebraic Fractions
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Inequalities
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Quadratic Equations
Videos:
- Solving Quadratic Equations by Factoring – Basic
- Solving Quadratic Equations by Factoring – Another Example
- Solving Quadratic Equations using the Quadratic Root formula 1
- Solving Quadratic Equations using the Quadratic Root formula 2
- Solving Quadratic Equations using the Quadratic Root formula 3
Handouts:
- Solving Quadratic Equations by Factorising
- Solving Quadratic Equations using the Quadratic Root Formula
Rules of Indices
Videos:
- What are Indices? (Basic Exponent Properties)
- Solving Indices (Intro to Evaluating Exponents)
- Using the Rules of Indices (Applying Rules of Exponents)
- Negative Indices (Negative Exponents)
- Evaluating Indices that are Fractions (Fractional Exponents)
Handouts
Simultaneous Equations
Videos:
- What are Simultaneous Equations used for? (Theory and Examples)
- Solving Simultaneous Linear Equations
- Solving Simultaneous Equations - One Llinear and One Non-Linear
Handouts
Complex Numbers (Leaving Certificate)
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This playlist contains videos covering a range of topics including:
- What are complex numbers?
- Modulus of a complex number
- Complex conjugates.
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of complex numbers.
- Argand diagrams and trasnformations
- Imaginary Roots – Quadratic equations with complex solutions.
- Polar form
- DeMoivre’s theorem.
- Exam Questions OL/HL.
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Logarithms (Leaving Certificate)
Videos:
- Introduction
- Properties of Logarithms
- Change of Base for Logarithms
- Examples 1
- Examples 2
- Examples 3
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Percent to Decimal to Fraction
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This playlist contains videos covering a range of topics including:
- Arithmetic Sequences
- Arithmetic Sequence Exam Questions OL/HL.
- Geometric Series
- Geometric Series – Finding the nth term.
- Proving a sequence is geometric.
- Geometric Series Exam Questions OL/HL.
Videos:
This playlist contains videos covering a range of topics including:
- Sine/Cosine/Tangent ratios.
- How to use Sine/Cosine Rule.
- Proof of Sine/Cosine Rule.
- Graphing Trigonometric Functions.
- Exam Papers (OL/HL) – Solutions explained.
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