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1 Indices & Standard FormLight travels 9 460 730 472 580 800 metres in a year; a hydrogen atom's radius is about 0.000 000 000 053 m.Open chapter › 2 Quadratic Equations & GraphsA linear equation has one answer; a quadratic usually has two, and this chapter is about getting both, in the form the paper asks for.Open chapter › 3 Linear InequalitiesAn equation pins a variable to one value; an inequality pins it to a whole range — every seat a bus can still take, every price inside a budget.Open chapter › 4 Graphs of FunctionsEvery curve in this chapter belongs to one small family, and the paper expects you to know each shape on sight.Open chapter › 5 SetsThis chapter is made almost entirely of symbols.Open chapter › 6 MatricesA matrix is information laid out in a rectangle of brackets: the rows mean one thing, the columns another.Open chapter › 7 Congruence & SimilarityTwo shapes are congruent when one is a copy of the other, and similar when one is a photocopy at another zoom.Open chapter › 8 Properties of CirclesA circle's symmetry pays out as nine facts — four about chords and tangents, five about angles — and each one turns a picture into an equation.Open chapter › 9 TrigonometrySecondary Two trigonometry needed a right angle.Open chapter › 10 Arc, Sector & Radian MeasureCut a circle, and the angle at the centre says how much of it you are holding: an arc is that fraction of the circumference, a sector that fraction of the area.Open chapter › 11 Coordinate GeometryGive a point two numbers and geometry turns into arithmetic.Open chapter › 12 Vectors in Two DimensionsSome quantities need a direction as well as a size — "walk 400 m" is not instructions, "walk 400 m north-east" is.Open chapter › 13 Statistical Data AnalysisEighty numbers are unreadable. One number — a median, a mean, an interquartile range, a standard deviation — is readable, and so is one picture.Open chapter › 14 Probability of Combined EventsOne coin, one die, one card — that was Secondary 2.Open chapter › 15 Problems in Real-World ContextsThe last question of Paper 2 announces nothing.Open chapter ›