Maths Anyone Else Worried?

fontdor

I am so pissed literally. I just don't get this whole project math's thing seriously. And it is vital since if you don't pass it you fail your whole LC. All I can say is I wish it never existed.

Anyone else here worried? And I'm at ordinary level I feel so bad for the HL students here.

spurious

It's not true that if you fail one subject you fail your whole LC.

fontdor

spurious wrote: »

It's not true that if you fail one subject you fail your whole LC.

that's what my math teacher always says.

Leaving Cert Student

spurious wrote: »

It's not true that if you fail one subject you fail your whole LC.

Spurious man, I have to commend your work rate! You're a good egg!

Prodigious

Leaving Cert Student wrote: »

Spurious man, I have to commend your work rate! You're a good egg!

You are such a disrespectful cnut it's not even right.

Neeson

It is effectively true. If you fail maths, say goodbye to getting into 3rd level.

Leaving Cert Student

Prodigious wrote: »

You are such a disrespectful cnut it's not even right.

Can't win with you prodgy can I?

"damned if I do, damned if I don't"

Prodigious

Leaving Cert Student wrote: »

Can't win with you prodgy can I?

"damned if I do, damned if I don't"

Prodgy? I love it

Try not saying anything, it'd improve everyone's view of you immensely.

Copper_pipe

all I want is a D3

Leaving Cert Student

Prodigious wrote: »

Prodgy? I love it

Try not saying anything, it'd improve everyone's view of you immensely.

I am not going to stoop to you're level mate. I am hear to avail of this service, you need to back off. The fact that you think I care about your opinion of me is laughable so please just refrain from petit comments like that.

Prodigious

Leaving Cert Student wrote: »

I am not going to stoop to you're level mate. I am hear to avail of this service, you need to back off. The fact that you think I care about your opinion of me is laughable so please just refrain from petit comments like that.

*your
**here
***petty
****I am not your mate.

Neeson

It's only the LC. Shouldn't you folks be buried in the books though?

11Charlie11

Copper_pipe wrote: »

all I want is a D3

Thats all I want aswell .. but i just found out that it has to be in your top 6 with regards to grade and not points wise .. so now i dont know wheter to drop to ordinary Im weak at irish and will prob only get a C3 and if i get a D3 in maths its 70 points but i will have to count the 60 points from irish!
Dont know if any of that made sense

Canard

Leaving Cert Student and Prodigious, keep your bickering out of this thread and out of all other threads, as you have already been asked to do many times.

fontdor

Prodigious wrote: »

*your
**here
***petty
****I am not your mate.

Hey dude If you're not gonna give your opinion about maths buzz off and stop disrespecting other members.

Leaving Cert Student

Prodigious wrote: »

*your
**here
***petty
****I am not your mate.

The irony of correcting a misspelling of petty on an online forum.

Leaving Cert Student

Canard wrote: »

Leaving Cert Student and Prodigious, keep your bickering out of this thread and out of all other threads, as you have already been asked to do many times.

Fair enough, to be honest he is following me around and it is fairly annoying but I am willing to stay out of his way if he is mine.

As for the topic of maths, I would definitely stick it out, they will be desperate to pass as many people as possible in my opinion!

Prodigious

fontdor wrote: »

I am so pissed literally. I just don't get this whole project math's thing seriously. And it is vital since if you don't pass it you fail your whole LC. All I can say is I wish it never existed.

Anyone else here worried? And I'm at ordinary level I feel so bad for the HL students here.

I'm fortunate in that Maths comes naturally to me, but I am still a bit worried. I hate the way that, despite the fact they are trying to stop people learning stuff off, they still have so many proofs on the course. So much extra time spent on them when we could be practicing real maths.

Prodigious

Leaving Cert Student wrote: »

Canard wrote: »

Leaving Cert Student and Prodigious, keep your bickering out of this thread and out of all other threads, as you have already been asked to do many times.

I am willing to stay out of his way if he is mine.

Ditto. See what I did there?

CookieMonster.x

11Charlie11 wrote: »

Thats all I want aswell .. but i just found out that it has to be in your top 6 with regards to grade and not points wise .. so now i dont know wheter to drop to ordinary Im weak at irish and will prob only get a C3 and if i get a D3 in maths its 70 points but i will have to count the 60 points from irish!
Dont know if any of that made sense

Maths has to be in your top 6 points wise. Like you add your 25 points onto your maths score and if that score is higher than another subject you can include maths. So if you get a D3 which is worth 70 points and 60 from Irish then you count maths.
Hope this makes sense but if I understand you then I think you have been misinformed, so stick at the HL

11Charlie11

CookieMonster.x wrote: »

Maths has to be in your top 6 points wise. Like you add your 25 points onto your maths score and if that score is higher than another subject you can include maths. So if you get a D3 which is worth 70 points and 60 from Irish then you count maths.
Hope this makes sense but if I understand you then I think you have been misinformed, so stick at the HL

Seriously!! Thank you! My friend was telling me she read it in the paper or something and my career guidance teacher is crazy and won't know.. I'm actually so happy now! I was on the verge of dropping

CookieMonster.x

11Charlie11 wrote: »

Seriously!! Thank you! My friend was telling me she read it in the paper or something and my career guidance teacher is crazy and won't know.. I'm actually so happy now! I was on the verge of dropping

Well I'm almost 100% sure on that! People thought that once they did HL they could just add the 25 points on even if the combined points are lower than the other subjects. So stick with it and good luck

11Charlie11

CookieMonster.x wrote: »

Well I'm almost 100% sure on that! People thought that once they did HL they could just add the 25 points on even if the combined points are lower than the other subjects. So stick with it and good luck

Just checked it on the CAO and your right! Thank you so much!!

Copper_pipe

Its the "Any Reasonable attempt -5 marks" that give me hope!

peekachoo

Passed the mocks by 1%, so scared! Attempt marks

randylonghorn

Leaving Cert Student wrote: »

I am willing to stay out of his way if he is mine.

Prodigious wrote: »

Ditto. See what I did there?

Right, gentlemen, consider yourselves lucky Canard got here first!

So, you get yourselves a final chance: stick to the above or get yourselves a time out.

- Ignore one another, do not address one another in any way, good, bad or indifferent.

- No sly sideswipes at one another. If I even *suspect* that this is intended, I won't give any benefit of the doubt, so read each post twice.

- No sideswipes or prodding at anyone else either. The LC starts shortly, people are nervous and stressed, no-one needs any additional aggravation.

There is NO need to respond to this post on thread. In fact, I would strongly advise against it!

Vito Corleone

The next few weeks are going to be interesting on here methinks. Things are already hottin' up!

randylonghorn

Scuid Mhór

Vito Corleone wrote: »

The next few weeks are going to be interesting on here methinks. Things are already hottin' up!

exam pressure yeow

teotihuacan

Maths is fuppin great. Learn to love it. A friend for life it is. A quirky, bollucks of a friend who you'll never fully understand, who will annoy you to point of wanting to nail your scrotum to a tree...but a friend nonetheless.

diarmo06

teotihuacan wrote: »

Maths is fuppin great. Learn to love it. A friend for life it is. A quirky, bollucks of a friend who you'll never fully understand, who will annoy you to point of wanting to nail your scrotum to a tree...but a friend nonetheless.

.. Unnecessarily vivid? :P

user.name

They are so unclear with what they want half the time!

GeminiBaby

It's not that bad... Know ur formulas and ud be ok! And don't feel sorry for the hl, They do hl because they find maths somewhat easy, so be grand xD

Luize

I got 37% in the mocks (higher level) and I'm on the verge of a mental breakdown cause if I don't pass it I can basically say goodbye to any hope of me getting into college.

Anyone have any predictions regarding whether it'll be crazy hard like last year or will they make it easier?

Copper_pipe

Luize wrote: »

I got 37% in the mocks (higher level) and I'm on the verge of a mental breakdown cause if I don't pass it I can basically say goodbye to any hope of me getting into college.

Anyone have any predictions regarding whether it'll be crazy hard like last year or will they make it easier?

I got 37% in the mocks as well, Passing maths is going to be the difference between me going to college and repeating

Luize

Copper_pipe wrote: »

I got 37% in the mocks as well, Passing maths is going to be the difference between me going to college and repeating

Same. It's ridiculous like. What are you doing to prepare? Like I'm just frantically answering all the exam paper questions hoping some of it will stick.

fontdor

You got and girls got better than me I got 15% god damn it.

Luize

Weird how more ordinary level students are failing than higher level students. The failure rate for ordinary level last year was like 11% and for higher only 2.5% . How??

11Charlie11

Luize wrote: »

Weird how more ordinary level students are failing than higher level students. The failure rate for ordinary level last year was like 11% and for higher only 2.5% . How??

The departments attempt at making project maths seem like the best thing ever!

Luize

11Charlie11 wrote: »

The departments attempt at making project maths seem like the best thing ever!

It's the stupidest thing ever. I don't understand it and I never will.

fishmahboi

Luize wrote: »

It's the stupidest thing ever. I don't understand it and I never will.

What exactly is the problem with Project Maths if you don't mind me asking?

Lcstudent2013

I can't wait for this exam to be quite fair!

Leaving Cert Student

I think it is brilliant! Can actually see maths in action better than the old course for sure!

diarmo06

fishmahboi wrote: »

What exactly is the problem with Project Maths if you don't mind me asking?

The problem really is, people just hate maths.
Because they proposed this new 'sexy' method of maths, people feel as though they should see better results, maths is maths and I'd go as far to say these people failing ordinary maths ''because of project maths'' would equally be failing any other maths curriculum devised or conceived.

11Charlie11

fishmahboi wrote: »

What exactly is the problem with Project Maths if you don't mind me asking?

The problem I find with it is that we were given the old course for jc and were expected to adapt to a whole new way of doing maths in two years!

Luize

11Charlie11 wrote: »

The problem I find with it is that we were given the old course for jc and were expected to adapt to a whole new way of doing maths in two years!

Exactly! :P I was fairly good at maths, managed a B in Junior Cert and now.. I can barely pass it

aimzLc2

Hi guys just want to spread some hope if i can , i was never good at maths i did ordinary level for junior cert and leaving cert ordinary level got even worse , i failed class tests, i nearly failed the mock.I didn't practise alot and took the maths paper last year and i got a C2, maybe thats not great for some people here but for others who are afraid of failing ,you will probably do better than you think!

Leaving Cert Student

I think they should have left ordinary maths as it was, the old course and only changed higher level because while making maths more appealing is intiguing for those who enjoy it and are good at it, pass pupils will never appreciate the beauty of maths and will hence be better suited to the old course.

Prodigious

Leaving Cert Student wrote: »

I think they should have left ordinary maths as it was, the old course and only changed higher level because while making maths more appealing is intiguing for those who enjoy it and are good at it, pass pupils will never appreciate the beauty of maths and will hence be better suited to the old course.

The aim is to increase appreciation of Maths though. People who do HL generally enjoy maths to a certain degree already, so only changing the course for them would defeat the purpose of Project Maths.

Leaving Cert Student

Prodigious wrote: »

The aim is to increase appreciation of Maths though. People who do HL generally enjoy maths to a certain degree already, so only changing the course for them would defeat the purpose of Project Maths.

I disagree. The old course wasn't very applicable for those who enjoy maths. This new course is a ot more inspiring. Personally, the question 5's and 6's on paper 1 are the reason I am considering studying maths next year! I find them fascinating.

I just don't think ordinary students are prepared to appreciate it like this because if they did, they would likely be in HL, in my opinion anyway!

David086

Anyone else think they should break up maths like they do with science and business from the JC? Would make it much more appealing and doable!