Mathematics GCSE
Iteration
What Iteration means in Mathematics GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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A method that finds approximate solutions to equations that cannot be solved exactly by repeatedly applying a formula.
A process that takes a starting value and applies the same rule repeatedly, using each output as the next input.
Topics that use Iteration
- Ratio, proportion and rates of change (AQA GCSE)
- Solving equations and inequalities (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Algebraic rearrangement of compound-unit formulae
- Checking solutions by substitution
- Checking the reasonableness
- Chord versus tangent
- collecting like terms
- Comparing quantities of the same kind
- completing the square
- compound interest
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