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L. Graham, D. Sargent Countdown to Mathematics Volume 1 ISBN 0201 13730 5 A. Graham Teach Yourself Basic Mathematics ISBN 0 340 64418 4 H. Cooke Success with Mathematics ISBN 0415 298 61 X The Actual Course Books Physics Open Mathematics (MU120) Audio Print Video Software Study Packs Stimulating and innovative, these learning materials build confidence and help students to overcome their fear of mathematics by incorporating mathematical ... Find out more» Alternatively you may wish to see the full Course Description for this range of materials or see our full range of Courses and Qualifications available for study. Print More info Print Block C: Growth and Decay, The Ever-Changing World - MU120/12 Focuses on exponential functions and their related inverse functions, logarithms. Uses financial, biological and chemical examples and introduces the important idea of doubling time and half-time, to illustrate how exponential functions are applied. Publication Year: 2003 Pages: 84 ISBN: 9780749257774 Price: £8.50 (£8.50 + £0.00 VAT) Print Block A: Earnings, For Better, For Worse. - MU120/BLK3-02 MU120/BLK3-02 Measures changes in earnings by using mathematical skills. Calculating percentages, averages and the idea of an index. Also concentrates on improving written communication, developing and applying the more general features of statistical problem solving, and representing and interpreting information. Publication Year: 2005 Pages: 80 ISBN: 9780749202934 Price: £8.50 (£8.50 + £0.00 VAT) Print Resource Book A - MU120/RBA-03 MU120/RBA-03 Additional exercises on material in "Mathematics everywhere", "Prices", "Earnings", "Health" and "Seabirds" Publication Year: 2005 Pages: 48 ISBN: 9780749202743 Price: £8.50 (£8.50 + £0.00 VAT) Print Resource Book B - MU120/RBB Additional exercises on material in 'Maps', 'Graphs', 'Symbols' and 'Music'. Publication Year: 2003 Pages: 34 ISBN: 9780749257859 Price: £5.50 (£5.50 + £0.00 VAT) Print Resource Book C - MU120/RBC Additional exercises on material in 'Prediction', 'Movement', 'Growth and Decay', 'Baker's Dozen'. Publication Year: 2003 Pages: 38 ISBN: 9780749257781 Price: £5.50 (£5.50 + £0.00 VAT) Print Resource Book D - MU120/RBD Additional exercises on material in 'Space and Shape', 'Repeating Patterns' and 'Rainbow's End'. Publication Year: 2001 Pages: 29 ISBN: 9780749244682 Price: £5.50 (£5.50 + £0.00 VAT) Print Tapping into Mathematics - MU120/SU Tapping into Mathematics with the TI-83 Graphics Calculator has been written for students who wish to learn how to use this calculator alongside relevant mathematical skills. The book takes a fresh approach to teaching mathematics, placing the Texas Instruments TI-83 machine at the centre of the learning experience. Students will find that learning mathematical principles in this way can be both exciting and fun. Topics covered include basic calculations, statistical analysis, plotting, graphs, functions, simple algebra, trigonometry and modelling. A wealth of examples and practice exercises reinforces the student’s understanding of key concepts, while challenging puzzles and brain-stretchers encourage further exploration. Numerous screendump illustrations and key press instructions provide guidance and reassurance and enable the student to exploit the powerful capabilities of the TI-83. Calculator not included. Publication Year: 1997 Pages: 310 ISBN: 9780201175479 Price: £16.95 (£16.95 + £0.00 VAT) Print Readings - MU120R Contains readings for Units 1-14. Publication Year: 1997 Pages: 74 ISBN: 9780749288549 Price: £8.50 (£8.50 + £0.00 VAT) Video More info Video Taking Off - MU120/01V MU120/01V Societies and environments today are shaped by mathematics. This programme examines aspects of differing cultural and physical experiences, by taking us on a journey from the minting of coins in South Wales to less familiar mathematics in New Zealand – generally considered by topographers to be ‘upside down’ – but where the local inhabitants often draw maps showing it at the top of the world. Publication Year: 1997 Length: 24mins ISBN: 9780749229955 Price: £40.24 (£34.99 + £5.25 VAT) Video The Passionate Statistician - MU120/02V Florence Nightingale campaigned to improve the quality of life of those who were powerless to improve their own lot. This programme illustrates how she helped to change society for the better through her innovative and systematic collection and analysis of health data, and through the presentation of her conclusions visually using existing methods such as line diagrams and pie charts, as well as her own ‘coxcomb’ diagrams. Publication Year: 1997 Length: 24mins ISBN: 9780749229962 Price: £40.24 (£34.99 + £5.25 VAT) Video Asthma and the Bean - MU120/03V MU120/03V Following seven serious asthma outbreaks in adults in Barcelona, Spain in the 1980s, a multi-disciplinary team collected data to demonstrate evidence of geographical clustering of the disorder in districts bordering the harbour and industrial zone. This programme looks at how statistical analysis of the data identified the cause of the problem and enabled action to be taken to resolve it. Publication Year: 1997 Length: 24mins ISBN: 9780749229979 Price: £40.24 (£34.99 + £5.25 VAT) Video The Rainbow - MU120/04V MU120/04V Over the years the rainbow has fascinated theologians and philosophers alike. Both groups have suggested many reasons for its properties. A subtle and often misunderstood phenomenon, this programme shows that it can be explained by using simple optics and geometry. Publication Year: 1997 Length: 24mins ISBN: 9780749229986 Price: £40.24 (£34.99 + £5.25 VAT) Video Caught in Time - MU120/05V The art of juggling fascinates people both as a form of entertainment and as an enjoyable amateur pastime. This programme looks at how mathematical modelling can be used to describe patterns of throwing by employing repeated sequences of cycle time, represented by time lines and ribbon diagrams. It also explores how the ‘mathematics’ of juggling has led to the discovery of totally new patterns. Publication Year: 1997 Length: 24mins ISBN: 9780749229993 Price: £40.24 (£34.99 + £5.25 VAT) Video Deadly Quarrels - MU120/06V MU120/06V During the First World War eight million people were killed and 20 million were wounded. Two people turned to mathematics in the hope that they would be able to prevent such wars happening again. The Quaker, Lewis Fry Richardson generated complex mathematical analyses to show what could happen in uncontrolled arms races, while the engineer Frederick Lanchester used his mathematical skills to predict how battlefield outcomes would change with opponents’ ability to use more long-range weapons. Publication Year: 1997 Length: 24mins ISBN: 9780749230333 Price: £40.24 (£34.99 + £5.25 VAT) Video Building by Numbers - MU120/07V Some of the most beautiful buildings in the world rely on mathematics for their proportions. Filmed in Italy and France, this programme looks at the unexpected ways in which three architects – Palladio, Le Corbusier and Bernard Tschumi – used the mathematics of their day to create buildings that reflected the culture of their times. Publication Year: 1997 Length: 24mins ISBN: 9780749230340 Price: £40.24 (£34.99 + £5.25 VAT) Video A Language for Movement - MU120/08V This programme uses dance to illustrate how symbolic language, known as notation, can be used to both record and recreate dances. It looks at one method of notation, Labanotation, and describes how, 70 years after the original steps in Nijinsky’s ballet Afternoon of a Faun were danced, they were rediscovered, and recreated, after Nijinsky’s own annotated choreographic score had been translated into Labanotation. Publication Year: 1997 Length: 24mins ISBN: 9780749230357 Price: £40.24 (£34.99 + £5.25 VAT) Video DVD for Blocks A, B, C and D - MU120/DVD/01 Contains Band 1: Maths as others see it (Unit 1) Band 2: Women in the workplace (Unit 3) Band 3: Hot spots (Unit 4) Band 4: Four-and-twenty seabirds (Unit 5) Band 5: Getting your bearings (Unit 6) Band 6: Single-track minders (Unit 7) Band 7: Sounds harmonious (Unit 9) Band 8: To catch a falling car (Unit 11) Band 9: A piece of cake (Unit 13) Band 10: Getting things into perspective (Unit 14) Band 11: Showing the way they went (Unit 14) Band 12: The sound of silence (Unit 15) Band 13: The rainbow (Unit 16) Publication Year: 2005 Length: 240mins ISBN: 9780749233839 Price: £40.24 (£34.99 + £5.25 VAT) NEEDED BOOKS FOR STUDY Exploring Psychology DSE212 Book One: Title: Mapping Psychology ISBN: 9780749217697 Cost, pounds Sterling: 27.95 Two bindings Two thirds of the course is in this book. Book Two: Title: Challenging Psychological Issues Edited by Troy Cooper and ?Ilone ?Ruth Makes up the last part of the course Workbook: ISBN: 9780749217693 117 pages Cost, pounds Sterling: 5.50 Set book in Hong Kong, 'Applyig Psychology, edited by Nicola ?Brao and Helen Westcott Auxillery Exploring Psychological Research Methods i.e. five 'method booklets' in Hong Kong ________________________________________________ Creative Writing A215 Title: Creative Writing: A Workbook with Readings Author: Linda Anderson Publisher: Abingdon: Routledge in Association with the Open University 2008 ISBN: 041 (then a five or a three)372437 or 9780415372435 or 0145372429 or 9780415372428 OLC: 225398799 Cost: $36 in US ISBN: 0-415-37243-7 2005 Cost, pounds Sterling: 20.99 Also at: http://books.google.com Amazon: Cost, pounds Sterling: 37.75 Amazon numbers ISBN-10: 0415372437 ISBN-13: 978-0415372435