Adam Carey has a report in The Age today, on Victoria’s declining enrolments in Specialist Mathematics. Which is quite the puzzle. After all, if an “advanced mathematics subject” is a prerequisite for tertiary studies, and if on top of that the subject is well constructed and offers serious and interesting mathematics, then student numbers should be very healthy. Oh, wait. Continue reading “A Special Decline”
To all VCE students, we hope your results were all that you wished for, and that your grand educational plans can now go ahead.
And, you’re done (with VCE maths). We hope it went well.
Continue reading “Secret 2022 Specialist Business: Exam 2 Discussion”
We hope it went well for youse all.
Continue reading “Secret 2022 Specialist Business: Exam 1 Discussion”
Fire away. (Exam 1 discussion is here.)
Continue reading “Secret 2022 Methods Business: Exam 2 Discussion”
We hope the exam went well for all you students, or all your students (tick whichever applies).
We haven’t looked at the exam yet, but in any case we’ll first give others time to comment. Fire when ready.
Continue reading “Secret 2022 Methods Business: Exam 1 Discussion”
Same old thing. Exam 1 discussion is here.
Continue reading “Secret 2022 Further Business: Exam 2 Discussion”
Further Mathematics is not our thing, but it seemed possible that some frequent visitors may want to discuss today’s exam. (We haven’t seen the exam, and don’t plan to seek it out unless something interesting is flagged.)
Have fun.
UDPATE (31/10/22): Exam 2 discussion is here.
Continue reading “Secret 2022 Further Business: Exam 1 Discussion”
Note that our question is not whether smart Victorian students should avoid Methods. Given that Methods is the ugliest, stupidest, most aimless, digitally perverted, anally retentive, error-strewn, little Hitler managed, God forsaken heap of anti-mathematical garbage ever conceived, or even conceivable, of course all students should avoid Methods if they possibly can. The question is, can they?
Continue reading “Can Smart Victorian Students Avoid Mathematical Methods?”
We still haven’t had time to take a proper look at the 2023-2027 VCAA Mathematics Study Design, but it smells very very bad.
A blog-reader has alerted us to a VCAA webinar on Mathematical Methods in the new study design. The video can be viewed here, with transcript here (Word, idiots), and PowerPoint slides here (PowerPoint, idiots). The study design is here (Word, idiots). The previous discussion on this blog can be found here.
The video made us nauseous.