Read – and re-read – the question carefully. Try to “get involved” in the context of the question – however boring it may be!

• • Imagine what happens to a stone as you throw it from a cliff
  • What would it be like to manage a toy factory?

Draw a diagram –?sketch?a graph of the function being used as the model.

If you are completely stuck try “doing something” with the maths. For example, if there’s a quadratic function – sketch it, factorise it, solve it. Or if?there’s a polynomial – use factor theorem?and?algebraic division?to factorise it.