If you haven’t heard of xkcd (click now and lose three hours), it’s a webcomic run by Randall Monroe focusing on maths, science and computing. Although some of his comics (mostly the coding ones) go over my head, the maths-based ones are hilarious, and some are great for sharing in lessons – with the caveat that some do contain naughty jokes, so check first. Here’s my pick of a few particularly relevant to the A Level syllabus.
Pure
- Newton and Leibniz
- Integration by Parts
- Useless (a good one for Valentine’s Day)
- Height and Depth
- Log Scale
- Matrix Transform
- Polar/Cartesian
- Margin
- Fairy Tales
- Pi vs Tau
- Math Paper
Statistics
- University Website / Baring My Heart / Virus Venn Diagram (Venn diagrams)
- Extrapolating
- Correlation
- Seashell
- P-values / Significant / Null Hypothesis (Hypothesis Testing)
- Monty Hall
- Boyfriend
- Suckville