The Internal Assessment counts as 20% of the your Group 5 grade for the IB diploma. This section will contain general information that will guide you on your journey with the internal assessment.
Exploration Ideas and Topics List
Below you will find good articles that display good mathematical writing that not only talks about mathematics but shows the reader how to do mathematics.
Article 1 - Chasing Imaginary Numbers
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These are the appendices that are attached to the information packet.
Below you will find pdf documents for citing using APA style on certain features. These files were downloaded from the Purdue Online Writing Lab from Purdue University. Click here to go the online website where these pages are located.
Below you will find the checklist that will be used for the Final Draft of the exploration.
Grades will be distributed as follows: 11 items (A+); 9-10 items (A); 7-8 items (B); 5-6 items (C); 3-4 items (D); 0-2 items or grossly under required # of pages (F). Any late final drafts will result in a late grade of 50 out 100.
Below you will find a scoring sheet for the Revised Final Draft of the exploration.
Below you find the self-grading checklist for the exploration.
Every year the boundaries could change slightly but these were the boundaries for the exploration in previous years before the pandemic.
Scale Score # of Marks
7 18-20
6 15-17
5 12-14
4 9-11
3 6-8
2 3-5
1 0-2
The first five samples below got a scale score of either 6 or 7 on the exploration. I have include a sample from each topic area so that you can see a really good version of the expectation for an exploration in that area.
Sample #1 - Number and Algebra [17 marks]
Sample #2 - Functions (and Modelling) [19 marks]
Sample #3 - Geometry and Trigonometry [20 marks]
Sample #4 - Probability and Statistics [19 marks]
Sample #5 - Calculus [18 marks]
Sample #6 - Functions [8 marks]
Sample #7 - Probability and Statistics [15 marks]
Sample #8 - Number and Algebra [10 marks] Comments
Sample #9 - Functions [19 marks] Comments
Sample #10 - Geometry & Trigonometry [15 marks] Comments
Sample #11 - Probability and Statistics [10 marks] Comments
Sample #12 - Calculus [11 marks] Comments