Project Maths Junior Cert 2012

Junokevv

Anyone else do it?

I wouldn't exactly call it hard, more just kind of weird..

Meh, didn't do nearly as well I was hoping A B would be good..

orriray59

What's project Maths? Do explain.

Junokevv

A new maths curriculum, only the pilot schools are doing it this year.

This is the first year that anyone has done a full 2 papers of it.

I think the goal is to make maths more accessible and test people's genuine mathematical ability.

To be honest I found it hard to study. We had our Mock paper and one sample paper and that's it. I worked really hard because I wanted an A but things didn't go great today.

Chicken and Cheese

Ahh!! I did it today! Some of those questions were WEIRD, and I found the units and energy one difficult, but I made a good stab at it. Did you see the second part of the last functions question with h=t and h=2t+1 or whatever? And it said express it in terms of t, but it didn't equal anything other than y or h(t) so I fecked that up...

Junokevv

Chicken and Cheese wrote: »

Ahh!! I did it today! Some of those questions were WEIRD, and I found the units and energy one difficult, but I made a good stab at it. Did you see the second part of the last functions question with h=t and h=2t+1 or whatever? And it said express it in terms of t, but it didn't equal anything other than y or h(t) so I fecked that up...

I knew how to do that one but I was kind of rushing so I messed it up and just went on to the last page because I knew I could get that. Did you get the formula in the electricity question? I was clueless. And the first functions one, where the roots were equal? I got K=1 or something like that..

The paper was NOT what I was expecting.

Clayman15

I didnt think it was too bad.. agreed the last functions question was hard but i scraped through it..... id be fairly confident of a B- or B in that paper hopefully a good paper 2 will bring me up to an A.... I heard the papers wont be marked very hard as its project maths' first full jc year and they want it to be a success

iliketwixbars

What's the layout of the paper and what's it like for timing etc. ?

Clayman15

Well there was a recommended time limit on the top of every question, that was pretty helpful.. Ya cant really predict what comes up or the layout cos theres no real past papers.. I was surprised no questions including venn diagrams came up

Chicken and Cheese

Junokevv wrote: »

I knew how to do that one but I was kind of rushing so I messed it up and just went on to the last page because I knew I could get that. Did you get the formula in the electricity question? I was clueless. And the first functions one, where the roots were equal? I got K=1 or something like that..

The paper was NOT what I was expecting.

The formula was terrible! I tried Tn=18n+20 or something... For the roots one, I said it was zero and worked from there. I made a random number up in my head again, as I did in the mocks, and I got full marks there, for some strange reason...!

Clayman15

yea i did something similiar for that one i think let y=0 for a and b because they were on the x axis

Chicken and Cheese

Clayman15 wrote: »

yea i did something similiar for that one i think let y=0 for a and b because they were on the x axis

I could do that one!! It was the one beforehand with the h(t) etc. I can usually do that, but I hadn't a clue how to express a function in terms of t.

Clayman15

Chicken and Cheese wrote: »

I could do that one!! It was the one beforehand with the h(t) etc. I can usually do that, but I hadn't a clue how to express a function in terms of t.

Oh yeah i didnt really know that one and it was the only question i struggled to answer.... eventually i let the two functions with t in them equal each other and then simplified them, i gotta quadriatic expression and then got two values for t.. i could be way off the ball but bound to getta few attempt marks

Chicken and Cheese

Clayman15 wrote: »

Oh yeah i didnt really know that one and it was the only question i struggled to answer.... eventually i let the two functions with t in them equal each other and then simplified them, i gotta quadriatic expression and then got two values for t.. i could be way off the ball but bound to getta few attempt marks

Ooh, that sounds about right. Damn you..!

Junokevv

Asked my teacher today, K=1 I think he said. Or maybe it was -1. Can't remember but I think I got it right. Do you know how you could graph something that has 2 roots?

Chicken and Cheese

Are the roots where the line crosses the x-axis? Possibly, I don't know.

Junokevv

Chicken and Cheese wrote: »

Are the roots where the line crosses the x-axis? Possibly, I don't know.

Yeah, I think so. What are you studying for Paper II?

Chicken and Cheese

Junokevv wrote: »

Yeah, I think so. What are you studying for Paper II?

Just doing a few questions. I suppose most of the formulae are in the tables book, and statistics is just waffle..! Best of luck tomorrow!

The One Who Knocks

ohh sorry, just seen this project maths thread

How'd you's find paper 2?

I thought the co-ordinate geometry was sorta hard, and I would have liked more statistics & trigonometry, but overall it went okay, definitely harder than the mocks though,

probably get a B

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As for paper 1, I kinda liked it...I got pretty much all the functions questions by trial & error

disappointed by the lack of sets & ven diagrams though

Junokevv

Paper 2 was not bad but I actually found area and volume a bit hard!?

And then the trigonometry with the 2 poles?

Last question was easy and and so were stats and probability, some parts of co-ordinate geometry were a bit hard too.

Did you get the one with the poles?

JCert96

Yeah paper1 was fairly wierd now, but paper2 today was fairly straight forward

Oozamine

Yea area and volume threw me off a bit aswell. I heard the old paper 2 was challenging.for the last question i just rambled on a bit but hopefully the examiner can make sense of it all :rolleyes: