Secret 2022 Specialist Business: Exam 2 Discussion
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Secret 2022 Methods Business: Exam 2 Discussion
Fire away. (Exam 1 discussion is here.)
The Awfullest Australian Curriculum Space Lines
Yes, it is VCE season, but the ACARA show must go on. Continuing with our Best Worst Of series, and following on from Number, Algebra and Measurement, here are the awfullest Space lines, chosen from the Complete Works.
WitCH 85: The Continuation of MAV’s Trials
With Methods exams next week, this one’s kinda important. We try to avoid critiquing, or even being in the same room as, third party VCE practice exams. They are invariably clunky and weird, with plenty to criticise, but they matter infinitely less than the yearly screw-ups of the official exams. Even MAV trial exams we […]
Can Smart Victorian Students Avoid Mathematical Methods?
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, […]
WitCH 84: VCAA’s Design Flaws
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 […]
Tony Guttmann – The National Statements and Profiles
Tony Guttmann is a Very Big Shot. Tony is Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne and he can claim a dozen or so honorary letters: AM, FAA and so on. Tony was a valiant warrior during Curriculum War II, and he was The Hero of Curriculum War I, which was fought out in the […]
WitCH 82: Graphic Evidence
This one is courtesy of frequent commenter, wst. It’s really a PoSWW, but the ideas may be sufficiently unfamiliar for it to be worth encouraging WitCHlike discussion. It comes from the Cambridge textbook General Mathematics 1&2.
GitS 2 : John Friend – A Lack of Confidence
This post, on confidence intervals, is by frequent commenter, John Friend. It is the second of our guest posts; the first, by Anthony Harradine, is here. A version of John’s post is also available as a PDF, here.
Host Requests Posts by Guests
From time to time, I’ve had guest posts on this blog: see here, here, here, here and here. More accurately, these guest posts were pre-written articles that the authors agreed to be republished on the blog. In any case, I’m happy to contemplate more such posts, pre-written or otherwise, and I’m now inviting readers to […]