I teach this route. It’s a good challenge for those students who find FM1 accessible. It’s interesting but it requires an extremely strong level of calculus. It is also quite short so there is plenty of time to practice and consolidate. Feel free to reach out if you have any specific questions.

Six greetings cards with geometry puzzles drawn on the front.

Today’s project: colouring in some cards for the #MathsConf38 tuck shop @rjs2212.bsky.social

So using change of base?
Shame it’s not officially on the Edexcel spec anymore. (I do still teach it though)

Thanks. We haven’t shared them electronically but printing them off for them just seems weird these days! Can’t believe any centre would be using them for internal assessment now.

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Please can people confirm if we can share electronic copies to the June 2024 papers with our students? Thank you

So it seems I should have looked at more past papers. Q7 from June 2023 has a question too!

Great thanks, so I’ll take that as a yes, it can be tested. I’m just struggling to find any questions (apart from the one you have now given me) for the students to practice with

Teachers of Pearson Further Mechanics 2, do you know if students can be tested on variable density of a solid that isn’t just a pole that has mass per unit length. There’s nothing in the textbook or it’s not clear in the spec but it’s on DrFrost
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I think we should be calling it gravitational acceleration when we teach it rather than just gravity. Perhaps that would help.
Apparently Newton said this…

It’s always tricky for students and even some staff to get their heads around. They think that gravity is what makes an object accelerate. Google doesn’t help clear it for them either

Is gravity a force?

Thanks for the reply. Yeah general centre of mass and circular motion are fine to get it’s just the variable density that is our biggest issue. I might need to try to make some. Eeek

I’m new to Bluesky so apologies for jumping on such an old messsge.
This seems to be the most difficult topic area for my FM2 students to grasp. Fascinating to see them struggle and get to grips.
It’s just frustrating to have such a lack of resources for this and the rest of the FM2 course.

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