YeaaahFaoiSin wrote: » OL is no walk in the park... TROLOLOLOLOL :pac:
randylonghorn wrote: » For many people it's not, maths at any level doesn't suit everybody, or (imho) in many cases they've been put off it early by teachers / parents. In any case, let's not turn this thread into "I'm doing HL Maths, look at the size of my ... schoolbook!"
Patchy~ wrote: » True, but the same could be said of language-y people or even worse, people who speak Irish as their first language and get extra points for it. God that wrecks my head. They do the LC in their mother tongue just like the rest of us and could fail maths had it been in English, but nooo, they did it in Irish so they get more points, the equality is overwhelming me :rolleyes: Also its a bit fair imo - usually extremely mathsy people struggle with languages, and have to do OL Irish and French to matriculate which really eats into their points. I guess applied maths and physics fix them up there but meh, guess it evens out unless you're like some of the geniuses here :P
Mysteriouschic wrote: » Has anyone else been Starbucks recently. It's weird how they ask for your name now. I thought it was only the one in town that asks you now but all of them do now apparently.
Eathrin wrote: » Eh what do you mean by that? I've never been in one, so, do they ask your name when you order a coffee or something Weird...
YeaaahFaoiSin wrote: » Yeah I'm more referring to the people who complain even though they don't study. I'm fairly average at Maths but I've put in a lot of work and the people who haven't and still complain get irritating. Didn't help my teacher managed a grand total of 3 sections in 5th year: The Line, Statistics and Algebra :pac:
Mysteriouschic wrote: » Like they take your order and ask you your name and write it on the cup. I don't know why they started it :S.
Dwellingdweller wrote: » FFS people should just go on Khanacademy and be given tests once a week to help them know where they're at in their studies. 0 euro a year for students to watch videos online -> 30k a year minimum for somebody who 50% of the time can barely teach the subject they're supposed to have done in college. Plus students could actually enjoy school and have the craic with their mates instead of pretending to listen in maths class. Obvs ya could get in the best (like, the best) teachers possible to teach HL maths to people who wanted but paying some dick 30k a year to produce students who don't understand half of what they're supposed to learn is just, stupid!
Eathrin wrote: » Patchy, Patchy, Patchy. You like to believe that everybody else is at an advantage somehow but honestly, you're up there with them, your an intelligent and hard working person. Your strengths alone will earn you a fantastic leaving cert, if you compare yourself with the best of the best you're never going to think you're gifted, but you are.
Eathrin wrote: » I mean I'm hardly going to leave my cuppa sitting there while I take a stroll. Hmm, any name? I shall be Osric henceforth in Starbucks.
YeaaahFaoiSin wrote: » I dunno our teacher hadn't a clue how to teach Project Maths. It's not really fair on the teachers either expecting them to teach material not involved in their degree and without proper guidelines. They were completely unprepared to introduce the new Maths course.
leaveiton wrote: » Are you suggesting that people just get to watch videos from Khanacademy in maths class rather than being taught by a teacher? Or am I misinterpreting you?
Patchy~ wrote: » ^ I KNOW :pac: Alsoooooooo guys for integration, I always thought when the curve crosses an axis you've to do it between x-0 and then 0-y or else some of it would cancel out other bits, but that doesnt seem to be the case. When do you have to split it up, if ever? I know we used to do that.
Dwellingdweller wrote: » Kinda, but not really, I'm suggesting to scrap maths class and be allocated time to watch khanacademy videos and study them themselves. Then, if they feel like they need someone to help them, they can be assigned a tutor who will help them (lol, wtf am I talking about, this is just me thinking out loud). As lots of people say they end up hating maths because of the way it's taught. That happened to me, my teacher for the j.c was a tit and I messed it up badly for the junior thusly, but last summer I would watch a khanacademy video every day and do like 1-2 hours of examples, and my maths is at a good standard now (high B, A OL) nothing amazing, just a good standard. Thing is, with a video you can pause, rewind, replay bits where you might got lost with a teacher (or where a teacher might get impatient), and you can really get what you're trying to learn. Plus it's free. This country doesn't have money to be throwing away on inefficient teachers. btw I'm really not trying to turn this into a discussion about politics but its one of the reasons I think khanacademy is so good. :P He says it himself, some teachers are píssed off by khanacademy because it endangers their jobs.
Togepi wrote: » A friend of mine is doing loads of maths modules in college and he was saying to me recently - why do we spend eight years in national school learning how to add, subtract, divide and multiply, when all of that is just done on a calculator from first year of secondary school onwards? Surely we'd be better off leaning some basic algebra and geometry in national school so that we'd have a slightly higher level of maths leaving primary school!
Dwellingdweller wrote: » Definitely, adding and multiplying and all that stuff doesn't teach you anything. Imagine if kids were able to do simple algebra by 3rd/4th class, they'd be ready to start doing differentiation by 1st/2nd year in secondary school. It'd make things so much easier for people in the long run. I remember in primary school if someone asked if we could learn algebra the teacher would actually be like "No!", really strangely.
leaveiton wrote: » While I do agree that the likes of khanacademy are great, there needs to be a balance. My teacher tries to do that, but fails because she's really terrible. She ends up showing us videos instead of teaching herself - which really isn't a good approach, and just reeks of laziness. What would be a good way to go about it would be for the teacher to take a hands-on approach at first, by teaching and explaining the topic themselves, and then showing a video to help explain the topic further. This is what some of my other teachers (chemistry, biology) do and it really works. No matter how good some videos are (and I'm not disputing that some are really excellent), I don't think they should be used as a replacement for teaching.
Martin_94 wrote: » What is this khanacademy you speak of. Can I acces it for free???
