Essential Maths Skills for AS/ A-Level Geography

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Secondary / History and Geography / Essential Maths Skills for AS/ A-Level Geography - 9781471863554

History and Geography

Helen Harris

$26.32

ISBN-13: 9781471863554

Published: 30/09/2016

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Overview

This textbook can be used throughout the course, whenever you feel your students need extra help.
-Worked examples and questions are all set within a geography context
-A step-by-step approach to every maths skill
-Measure progress with guided and non-guided questions that show how students are improving
-Fully worked solutions for every question.

Key Features

Introduction

Understanding Data
- Nominal, ordinal and interval data
- Ratios and fractions
- Percentages
- Densities

Measures of central tendency
- Mean, median and mode
- Frequency distributions

Measures of dispersion
- Range interquartile range and standard deviation

Measures of concentration
- Nearest neighbour index
- Location quotient
- Lorenz curves

Measures of correlation
- Scatter graphs and lines of best fit
- Spearman rank correlation coefficient

Testing for differences between data sets
- Student's t test
- Mann-Whitney U test
- Chi-squared test

Exam style questions
- AS level questions
- A Level questions

Appendix 1
- Statistical tables
Appendix 2
- Choosing statistical methods for geographical fieldwork
Appendix 3
- Key terms
Appendix 4
- Specification cross-reference

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