This unit follows on from the "Powers and Square Roots" unit in the 'first and second years of secondary education' section. In this earlier unit we focused on whole base numbers raised to the power of a positive whole number and examined their properties. In this unit there was also an introduction to the concept of the square root. This unit focuses on numbers raised to whole number and fractional indices and will generalise the rules which were examined in the earlier unit.

This unit deals with some of the basic concepts of homothety (or enlargement) and some formulae connected to Thales' theorem. Rather than rigorous, step-by-step demonstrations, this unit offers the advantage of proving theories and properties in a straightforward manner. To conclude the unit, different examples of similarity in triangles and polygons in general is also focused on, through an interactive approach. There is an introduction to metric relations in a right-angled triangle: the the...

The average speed of a car on a journey is a very familiar concept and can be used to illustrate a very important mathematical concept clearly. This concept is that of the rate of change of a function during an interval. Likewise, the speed at which a car travels at any particular moment is another familiar concept. This piece of information can lead us to the notion of the instantaneous rate of change of a function or a point. The examples and exercises presented in this unit have been taken...

Kepler used as his basis, both the results of his observations and those of his Astronomy professor, Tycho Brahe. You can study his three famous laws here.

The educational resource shows an interactive animation about the change of phase: solids melt when they are heated and liquids evaporate, changing to a gaseous state. If you increase the vibration of the molecules you can see how water changes phase.