| Edexcel AS and A Level Modular Mathematics - Mechanics 1 |  | Creators: Ms Susan Hooker, Mr Michael Jennings, Bronwen Moran, Mr Laurence Pateman
Publisher: Heinemann
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Pages: 170
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Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0435519166
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Publication Date: October 3, 2008
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Contains sample exam papers for Edexcel AS and A Level exam preparation. This work also includes a revision planner and checklist as well as a fully worked examination-style paper with chief examiner's commentary.
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 Great book July 26, 2010
Nadir
Edexcel AS and A Level Modular Mathematics - Mechanics 1
Brilliant book very useful. The CD is very informative and takes you through the stages of working out very well.
 Too small, too many misprints June 14, 2010
J. Sloan
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Whilst I think the C1 and C2 books in this range are actually quite good and have good examples, this book is different. There are many misprints - some horrendous - and lots in the Answers, the worst place for them to be. I kept thinking I got it wrong until my teacher told me they were misprints. At the start of each class, he has us correct all the misprints in pencil in the sections we will be covering that day.
There's also a very sharp learning curve. I've noticed that in many exercises, the first question is very easy, and the second question is very hard. It feels like they tried to keep the book to a certain size, the same standard size as the rest of their books. Also, unforgivably, the book gives 2 examples, but then neither example fits the exercise questions.
Chapter 2 is good, but Chapter 3 is rubbish. I couldn't do it because I didn't know what to do in so many situations because they weren't explained, and then at the beginning of Chapter 4 they were explained. 4A needs to be 3A. That's another thing. Often, a question has 3 parts, a b & c, which you're supposed to do in that order, but you can't do b until you do a lot of work in a different direction, and you finally get the answer, and then you read c and it asks you to find something, but that is what you had to find to do b, so you already have the answer now. If this was done deliberately from time to time, to show 'see, you don't always get things in neat and tidy orders in the real world, sometimes it's messy' then I would agree with it, but not on question 2, not when I'm building conidence and skill, and it's shattered by making me think I must have done it backwards by mistake.
And that's yet another thing: the examples! They use special cases ALL THE TIME! Like instead of it being a triangle, it turns out to be an isosclese triangle, and I'm left wondering 'does this only work for isoscles triangles?'. And the examples often use the same number twice, so a distance is 60 but then it turns out that the number of seconds is also 60, and you see them in a formula, and you wonder 'which is the distance and which is the time? Are they always the same?'. Again, If this happened once or twice to make the student think then I would be all for it, but it's like every 2nd or 3rd example, they all use special cases, but not intentionally to make you think, just through poor choice and lack of time and effort put into them.
If anyone knows a better Mechanics book please recommend it here. I recommend a youtube channel called Khan Academy, although it's not great, it's better than nothing, and has someone talking you through the questions.
Edit: I gave an extra star because I found the solutions to each question on the included CD. It doesn't make up for everything but it's a definite step in the right direction.
M1 review June 12, 2010
Nikki (UK)
I recently purchased this book a week before my M1 exam this summer after previously having a complete failure of a teacher. Although i haven't had the results of my exam back yet i am far more confident than i was before. This book was really good at explaining WHY i had to apply certain methods to certain models and was overall the saviour of my M1 module. I strongly recommend this book to anyone else who hasn't got a clue in M1.
 Good for the course November 26, 2009
Mr. A. D. Price (Wales, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Good book with plenty of exercises, but their are mistakes in the answers in the back; though the correct solutions are on the CD, which is invaluable in providing full solutions rather than just answers.
Refreshing August 29, 2009
K. B. Watson
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The layout and coverage is better than in most other books covering the same syllabus, and many students would be able to use this book very effectively with very little teacher or tutor assistance.
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