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Surfaces Free Course External LinkThe Open University

By The LearningSpace team (The Open University)

18 August 2011

Surfaces are a special class of topological spaces that crop up in many places in the world of mathematics. In this unit, you will learn to classify surfaces and will be introduced to such concepts as homeomorphism, orientability, the Euler...  Read more : Surfaces

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Modelling pollution in the Great Lakes: a review Featuring VideoFree Course External LinkThe Open University

By The LearningSpace team (The Open University)

29 July 2011

This is the fifth and final unit in the MSXR209 series on mathematical modelling. In this unit we revisit the model developed in the first unit of this series on pollution in the Great Lakes of North America. Here we evaluate and revise the original...  Read more : Modelling pollution in the Great Lakes: a review

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Modelling displacements and velocities Free Course External LinkThe Open University

By The LearningSpace team (The Open University)

29 July 2011

In this unit you will see first how to convert vectors from geometric form, in terms of a magnitude and direction, to component form, and then how conversion in the opposite sense is accomplished. The ability to convert between these...  Read more : Modelling displacements and velocities

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Prices Featuring AudioFree Course External LinkThe Open University

By The LearningSpace team (The Open University)

29 July 2011

This unit looks at a wide variety of ways of comparing prices and the construction of a price index. You will also look at the Retail Price Index (RPI) and the Consumer Price Index (CPI), indices used by the UK Government to calculate the percentage...  Read more : Prices

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Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables Free Course External LinkThe Open University

By The LearningSpace team (The Open University)

27 July 2011

This unit is concerned with two main topics. In Section 1, you will learn about another kind of graphical display, the boxplot. A boxplot is a fairly simple graphic, which displays certain summary statistics of a set of data. Boxplots are...  Read more : Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

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Exploring data: Graphs and numerical summaries Free Course External LinkThe Open University

By The LearningSpace team (The Open University)

27 July 2011

This Unit will introduce you to a number of ways of representing data graphically and of summarising data numerically. You will learn the uses for pie charts, bar charts, histograms and scatterplots. You will also be introduced to various ways of...  Read more : Exploring data: Graphs and numerical summaries

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Unscramble the clue to The Code Production team

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University)

27 July 2011

Got your free mathematical puzzle? One of the clues to The Code Treasure Hunt can be found by unscrambling the puzzle on this page.  Read more : Unscramble the clue to The Code

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The Code: Grandmaster of Mosaics  Featuring Activity 

26 July 2011

Deep in the dusty pages of an ancient tome is a legend centuries old that only you can overcome. Do you have the ability to...  Read more : The Code: Grandmaster of Mosaics

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Geometry Free Course External LinkThe Open University

By The LearningSpace team (The Open University)

22 July 2011

Geometry is concerned with the various aspects of size, shape and space. In this unit, you will explore the concepts of angles, shapes, symmetry, area and volume through interactive activities.  Read more : Geometry

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First-order differential equations Free Course External LinkThe Open University

By The LearningSpace team (The Open University)

22 July 2011

This unit introduces the topic of differential equations. The subject is developed without assuming that you have come across it before, but it is taken for granted that you have a basic grounding in calculus. In particular, you will need to have a...  Read more : First-order differential equations

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