The first of a series of four books, Pure Mathematics for Cape Volume 1 is an ideal textbook for students of the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) in Pure Maths, both for use in the classroom and for self-study. Volume 1 covers the complete syllabus for Unit 1, while Volume 2 covers the complete syllabus for Unit 2.
Some Key Features
- Each chapter takes a topic of the syllabus and explores it by means of investigations, explanations, worked examples and exercises on each subtopic.
- The approach and layout are user-friendly.
- Highlighting of definitions, rules to be learnt, and useful hints.
- Worked examples are taken step by step with explanations of each step.
- Each chapter concludes with an exercise of past CAPE examination questions, and a summary of the main ideas covered in the chapter.
Other features include lists of definitions, symbols and abbreviations, a list of those formulae provided by CXC for the examinations (other formulae are summarized in the chapter summaries), a comprehensive index, and answers to all the exercises.
The second volume, Pure Mathematics for CAPE: Volume 2, will be published in late 2007, and this will be followed by Applied Mathematics for CAPE and Statistical Analysis for CAPE in 2008.
