The book
The IB Math IA
What the examiners’ reports say, and how to write your IA
Most advice on the IB Math IA tells you to pick an impressive topic. The people who moderate explorations say the opposite, every session, in reports almost no student reads.
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This book is built on 31 of those reports, from 2021 to 2025, on the subject guides and on the IB’s own marked examples, and it cites them. It covers Analysis and Approaches and Applications and Interpretation, higher and standard level, for examinations up to November 2028. 100 pages, no filler.
What is inside
- The five criteria in plain words, as the people who mark them explain them.
- Why you do not need a research question.
- Why hard mathematics loses marks in four criteria out of five.
- One ordinary topic treated twice, at 9 out of 20 and at 18, so you can see exactly what changed.
- Twenty short answers to the questions students ask most: word count, page length, grade boundaries, ChatGPT.
- A chapter for parents and a chapter on AI tools and academic honesty.
Pietro Meloni holds a PhD in physics and teaches IB Mathematics and IB Physics to students at international schools.
About the author →Not affiliated with or endorsed by the International Baccalaureate Organization.