Advanced Higher Maths 2011-2012 : Discussion and Help

Just solve P = NP and you're fine, mate. <3

Category theory is what you're interested in, iirc?

Category theory is what you're interested in, iirc?

Parabloid, sphere...why can't they all just get along...

Just solve P = NP and you're fine, mate. <3

**** that, man. I remember that. Mathematicians way of saying '**** knows what the point of this is' and giving it a go anyway.

We don't have a differential equation where we can do that, I can't for the life of me remember what the first type that you're talking about are called, but I know what you mean. Where you'd have:

Well it depends on what you meant by "AH related". There are many questions that are solvable using only AH techniques but will never come up in an AH exam (and so is probably of little use for you unless you want a challenge) because they are much more demanding in ability (rather than knowledge) than AH.

Ah, don't worry, you'll pick it up in university

I, on the other hand, has made almost no progress in continuous maths ever since first year when I last had a pure maths lecture.

IMO?

I'm pretty sure I didn't learn any much maths at uni

It's not that the SQA can't put them in the exam (of course they are allowed to test the syllabus in any form of question they want), they just won't because difficult questions that aren't accessible even to most A candidates have little examination value. Not to mention whoever came up, proof-read and then approved that question will never be asked to do those jobs again. So going along with a purely cynical, exam-centric motivation, it's probably best to practice lots of "exam" questions rather than do anything that's more challenging and interesting (although of course investing in the latter will dramatically boost the performance of the former too, it's just more effort).



I'm sure you learnt more than me

I more meant what you were going to challenge this lot to. It has to be said the number of candidates in the country who could tackle it would likely be single figured though.

Well the questions I've posted are much simpler than say STEP for example, and I'm sure there would be many more than ten people, even in Scotland, who could give that a good stab (e.g. look at the number of Scottish mathmos Cam admits every year).

Although I do admit I couldn't help posting questions that are very different in the thinking required for the AH exam, and that's only because I like a question to "teach" and be meaningful so it exposes some interesting relationship that you can then think about, which unfortunately is rather the opposite of what the exam (and much of the AH course) is aiming for.

Just out of interest, how many Scottish mathmos does Cam admit? I'm not aware of any from lectures, and I only know of one other in real life and he graduated last year...

Well the questions I've posted are much simpler than say STEP for example, and I'm sure there would be many more than ten people, even in Scotland, who could give that a good stab (e.g. look at the number of Scottish mathmos Cam admits every year).

Although I do admit I couldn't help posting questions that are very different in the thinking required for the AH exam, and that's only because I like a question to "teach" and be meaningful so it exposes some interesting relationship that you can then think about, which unfortunately is rather the opposite of what the exam (and much of the AH course) is aiming for.

Just out of interest, how many Scottish mathmos does Cam admit? I'm not aware of any from lectures, and I only know of one other in real life and he graduated last year...

I had some peach schnapps last night and I tried to do my statistics coursework, thought coming on here would've helped but noooo.

Are you doing the lengths of words/sentences one? Takes so lonngg

I'm almost done, just have to do the Mann-Whitney test for the sentences and then write a conclusion. I must say though, it's kinda cool to be able to do it with your own data. It's just collecting the stupid data in the first place. Thank goodness for sampling!

Nope, I'm at uni.