Honours Maths.

Léan · 2006-03-26 14:16:25

I'm begining to worry. We are no where near finished the course. (We didn't even have triginomatry finished for the mocks). Anyway, was wondering, is this the case with most schools or what? It seems like there's loads to do. I know it's an "intense" course, but all the same...

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#32 22-04-2006 04:22PM

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zagaboy wrote:

yeh go look for mates sumwhere else

Zagaboy where are you from? I do have a life too you know. I play golf, soccer and do karate(black belt). This is a maths forum and maths is what is being discussed if you know what i mean.No offence.

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#33 22-04-2006 06:09PM

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This is the Junior Cert forum, not a maths forum, the maths forum is here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=380

afaik China have a very good aptitude for maths, there are special Maths-orientated schools and at a young age Chinese Children take an aptitude test to see if they have any maths skillz, if they do they are put into these schools.

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#34 22-04-2006 10:03PM

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Piste wrote:

This is the Junior Cert forum, not a math's forum, the maths forum is here:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=380

afaik China have a very good aptitude for maths, there are special Maths-orientated schools and at a young age Chinese Children take an aptitude test to see if they have any maths skillz, if they do they are put into these schools.

This is a honours maths thread in a junior cert forum.

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#35 22-04-2006 10:10PM

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I think the point of distinction she's trying to make is that it's a thread, not a forum. Just a small point, though.

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#36 23-04-2006 05:30PM

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One of the problems in some western cultures, not present in the far east, is the concept of eleven and twelve.

1, 2, 3 .... 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 ...

We spend our time counting - One, two, three ..... nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen ...

They count - One, two, three ..... nine, ten, "oneteen", "twoteen", thirteen, fourteen ...

This has a knock on effect of us doing 12x tables instead of 10x tables, which probably puts western students 6-12 months behind their peers.

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#37 25-04-2006 06:13AM

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by hard do you mean that most maths looks like mandrin chinese to a lot of us

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#38 25-04-2006 08:31PM

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Maths is a horrible subject. My teacher is pretty unapproachable, she can be extremely evil, and sets a hell of a lot of homework, then gives out because we don't understand it. However, she was sick for three months around Christmas, and we got a sub who taught us nothing. And so, we are behind in the course. I got a D at Christmas, and I got better with the unapproachable teacher for the mocks, a C.
I find English easier, thats more than likely becasue I am a little bookworm and always have been. I got a B in the mocks.

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#39 05-05-2006 07:39PM

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This has a knock on effect of us doing 12x tables instead of 10x tables, which probably puts western students 6-12 months behind their peers.

Interesting...
12x tables are useful though, as is knowing multiples of 13, 14 etc, 'specially when you don't want to move to get a calculator. On that point, people are relying far too much on calculators in school nowadays IMO.

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#40 05-05-2006 07:46PM

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Isn't the point that 13x tables would equal 10x tables + 3x tables?
Therefore, once you know up to ten, you basically know them all...?

I hope this is right, I have a maths exam tomorrow.

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#41 05-05-2006 07:52PM

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RefulgentGnomon wrote:

Interesting...
12x tables are useful though, as is knowing multiples of 13, 14 etc, 'specially when you don't want to move to get a calculator. On that point, people are relying far too much on calculators in school nowadays IMO.

Oh yes, it is useful, but perhaps also distracting.

Seeing as pounds, shillings & pence and feet & inches (part of the reason we have 12x tables) are a lot less common now, the main block is linguistic.

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#42 21-05-2006 05:37PM

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we finished our course in plenty of time for the mocks but i still failed badly!!!!!!!!!!!

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look at the past papers and pick out the questions that you think are easiest and study them, make sure you understand the topics, then its a lot easier.
its good to have to do one more than neccisary in the exam so that you have something to fall back on.

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#44 01-03-2009 06:28PM

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Overature wrote: »

look at the past papers and pick out the questions that you think are easiest and study them, make sure you understand the topics, then its a lot easier.
its good to have to do one more than neccisary in the exam so that you have something to fall back on.

Where did you even find this thread?

Its from 2006...............

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(Except "Thanks", that is all)

Seriously though, people need to just give a passing glance to the date of the last post!

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Pssh, I dont remember that coming in tbh.

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#49 12-03-2009 08:10PM

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#50 13-03-2009 07:09PM

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We've been done for a while, but our teacher just skims through everything. She says that we can figure the rest our for ourselves, it's really difficult. I go to a grind and I got 50% in the mocks...

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#51 03-04-2009 08:56PM

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if its any help ..... we finished the course by mid sseptember and have gone over the course over and over .most of me class did pretty good in tha mox too:)

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#52 05-04-2009 11:45AM

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We nearly had the course all done but hadn't done the theorems yet. I didn't know this and tried to learn all them without knowing what they meant and still managed to get 64% in my exam.

Now all i have to do is bring it up a little.

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#53 05-04-2009 01:55PM

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I must have a good teacher, he finished the course in January:D

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