Course details
Course highlights
- Define the system
- State what is measured, controlled, omitted and assumed.
- Compare models
- Judge fit, interpretability and limitations rather than choosing by appearance alone.
- Return to context
- Explain what parameters and predictions mean in the original situation.
- Predict first
- Estimate scale, shape and direction before pressing calculate.
- Control the workflow
- Manage data entry, window, regression, distribution and numerical settings.
- Verify output
- Use alternative representations, residuals, units and context.
- Read distributions
- Connect centre, spread, shape and unusual values.
- Separate association and causation
- State confounding, sampling and model limitations.
- Communicate uncertainty
- Match the strength of the conclusion to the quality of evidence.
- Diagnose the failure
- Separate model choice, technology, calculation and interpretation errors.
- Rewrite conclusions
- Connect numerical output to the question with units and limitations.
- Support the exploration responsibly
- Develop data, models and reflection while preserving student decisions and authorship.
Course content
- Number and algebra
- Numerical representation, algebra, sequences, exponentials, logarithms and related reasoning.
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- Approximation and financial mathematics
- Sequences and growth models
- Algebraic methods required for modelling
- Functions
- Representations, features, transformations, equations and modelling.
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- Function interpretation
- Linear, exponential, logarithmic and sinusoidal models
- Regression and model comparison
- Geometry and trigonometry
- Geometry, trigonometry, vectors and spatial relationships.
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- Measurement and trigonometry
- Coordinate and vector methods at the required level
- Applications to spatial contexts
- Statistics and probability
- Data, distributions, probability, correlation and statistical inference.
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- Data description and visualisation
- Probability and distributions
- Correlation and regression
- Statistical inference at the required level
- Calculus
- Limits, differentiation, integration, rates of change and accumulation.
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- Rates of change
- Differentiation and optimisation
- Integration and accumulation
- Numerical and technological approaches
- Assessment
- SL: Paper 1, Paper 2 and exploration; HL: also Paper 3.
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- SL: Paper 1 and Paper 2
- HL: Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3
- Internally assessed mathematics exploration
- The exact duration and weighting depend on subject and SL or HL. Teaching follows the current IB Diploma Programme guide and the student’s registered level.
Pricing
Course fees
4 lessons per month 90 minutes per lessonFees by level
- All levels
- HK$2,000/ 4 lessons