****Leaving Certificate: Higher Level Maths Discussion****

plmko

So excited for Maths! What's the buzz with ye?

Huell

Cant wait for it hopefully they will be nice to us since its he first full year of PM

yohan the great

Very very scared

plmko

I think it will be harder than last year but not half as hard as 2011/2012! Thank
god!
I wonder what they'all base the Context and Applications questions on?!

FatRat

In context and application I'm expecting a financial maths question, an exponential function/logs question and some sort of calculus question, probably integration orientated.

First 6 questions are fairly obvious.

cggreene

going to go over complex Numbers and financial maths. It's not gonna be good

LC.student2014

I have no idea how to do Rates of Change questions, anyone that could help?

plmko

FatRat wrote: »

In context and application I'm expecting a financial maths question, an exponential function/logs question and some sort of calculus question, probably integration orientated.

First 6 questions are fairly obvious.

Ah I'd love a Financial Maths long question!

plmko

LC.student2014 wrote: »

I have no idea how to do Rates of Change questions, anyone that could help?

Want=GivenxNeed

Hotale.com

Anyone else done nothing for it? Keeping on Geography was a terrible idea.

LC.student2014

I dont really get it want= given + need? how does that work?

peekachoo

Geography and maths together needs to be rescheduled.

JDOC1996

So what do we actually need to know/prove for paper 1?

LC.student2014

Need to know how to construct surd2 and surd3 and prove surd2 is irrational is it?

JDOC1996

LC.student2014 wrote: »

Need to know how to construct surd2 and surd3 and prove surd2 is irrational is it?

That's all I've learned, and how to get the average value of a function too.. Is that it?

Calvin

I had a 7hr maths course on paper 1 last Sunday. Hoping that pays off! Also have geography in the morning.....never good

plmko

@LCStudent2014

Want (what you're looking for) = Given (given in question in written terms so you have to change it to maths terms) multiplied by Need (construct this from the two other parts) kind of hard to explain on this sorry!

Amortisation Formula, De Moivres Theorem for all n is an element of N also.

plmko

Hope we get to construct square root two, handy few marks

LC.student2014

JDOC1996 wrote: »

That's all I've learned, and how to get the average value of a function too.. Is that it?

What do you mean the average value of a function?

Hotale.com

plmko wrote: »

@LCStudent2014

Want (what you're looking for) = Given (given in question in written terms so you have to change it to maths terms) multiplied by Need (construct this from the two other parts) kind of hard to explain on this sorry!

Amortisation Formula, De Moivres Theorem for all n is an element of N also.

Isn't that in the log tables?

Jones82

plmko wrote: »

I think it will be harder than last year but not half as hard as 2011/2012! Thank
god!

The contrast between the 2013 and 2011/12 papers is ridiculous. It would be amazing if it was like last years, but I'm expecting pure filth tomorrow..

2thousand14

How do you prove root 2 is irrational?

LC.student2014

2thousand14 wrote: »

How do you prove root 2 is irrational?

Proof by contradiction

Flickka

Does anyone know if that formula for average value of a function is in the log tables? Also in the 2011 papers, in the question on integration, is that type of question still on the course where you have to make some type of substitution and change the limits etc? I haven't been able to find any reference to it in any of the maths books...
Thanks guys!

Missovoxo

Oh gosh I need a B in maths and it don't think it'll happen tomorrow!

Shane15

What would be the most important things to study if you were literally trying to at least pass?

Missovoxo

Shane15 wrote: »

What would be the most important things to study if you were literally trying to at least pass?

Financial maths! the funny thing is I want to be an Accountant but I suck at it!

Shane15

Missovoxo wrote: »

Financial maths! the funny thing is I want to be an Accountant but I suck at it!

I definitely need to look over this, thanks. :P I used to be so good at maths, I don't know what happened LOL.

Missovoxo

Shane15 wrote: »

I definitely need to look over this, thanks. :P I used to be so good at maths, I don't know what happened LOL.

And complex numbers, and the root of a function and differentiation/integration.

Common sense stuff that should come up would be simultaneous equations, -b formula stuff like that!Fingers crossed!

Shane15

Missovoxo wrote: »

And complex numbers, and the root of a function and differentiation/integration.

Common sense stuff that should come up would be simultaneous equations, -b formula stuff like that!Fingers crossed!

Thanks, and yeah I love simultaneous equations haha.

feckin priests

Who's thinking induction will show its face?