Is Advanced Higher Maths worth doing?

Can anyone help me with this i'm thinking of doing Advanced Maths next year and want to do Maths at Uni, but here's the problem i would have to move school to do it, is it worth doing. I want to do it but i don't want to move in 6th year. Is it worth me moving school to do it i know its not necessary for University but it would be helpful. What would be the best thing for me to do?

Do you really have to move school ? I'm very surprised your teachers won't let you self study and or just go that that school for Maths lessons, are you in the middle of nowhere ?

i 100% sure that ill have to move school for it as i would probably be the only one who actually wanted to do it my school is quite small etc and no one would be able to teach me it

I think what he was meaning was that in most circumstances, if you want to study a particular higher or advanced higher but it's not offered due to lack of teachers/lack of interested pupils then you'd normally be able to travel to another school within your local authority which does that subject for the periods that that subject runs. You could ask your guidance teacher about this, they'd probably have more information

i'm not sure about that at all as far as i'm aware i would have to move school completely my maths teacher told me that it has happened before and the person has had to move school and i think there wouldn't be any point in going to a different school just for a few periods a week i'm not sure at all. There are 4 or 5 schools within about a 2 mile radius from where i live so moving wouldn't be a problem in that sense and moving school would probably make sense rather than going to a school for just my Maths periods

Why not just self study? Like actually tell your head teacher that you're going to do it and force them to find a teacher you can go to once or twice a week to get work/help. It is their job to meet your academic needs, so if you want somethinga subject to help you with the course that you want to do the school must help you. Trust me, I managed to get the columns changed just to fit my Adv Higher choices

Why not just self study?

Easier said than done. Self studying an advanced higher would be extremely hard and time-consuming. You would have to have real motivation to do it

You would be surprised. Maths is probably the easiest subject to self-teach in that you can learn the material entirely from a textbook.

I'm self-teaching AH Applied Maths this year, as well as being taught AH Maths, and I've much preferred having the freedom, with Applied Maths, to go through the course at my own pace. I can spend more time on difficult topics and race through the easier topics; something that can't exactly be said for the work we do in class. I was actually able to finish the Applied Maths course by late November this year because there were no confinements as to what work I was expected to do each week. Granted, there are only two units in Applied Maths, but I still got through it substantially quicker than one could expect to do so in class.

If you're intent on studying mathematics at university, I'd definitely recommend studying AH Maths. Where are you thinking of applying? For some universities, an A at AH Maths will be the prerequisite for entry. If you can self-teach, I'd definitely take it into consideration. You'll improve immeasurably and start thinking like a mathematician and asking why the mathematics works; not just splurging out methods like they teach you to do in class.

But, at the end of the day, you're not up for studying the course independently, then just go ahead with the other arrangements. I don't see what the big deal is, to be honest, loads of people go to other schools to do AH courses.

I'm self-studying adv higher maths too! Download the scholar 'textbooks'; some secondary schools have uploaded them onto the Internet

We hope that your self-studying is going well, but please bear in mind that the SCHOLAR PDFs that some schools may have chosen to upload are likely to be rather out of date so you would do better to login to SCHOLAR itself, which also gives you the benefit of being able to use our interactivities, the end of unit assessments and an extensive revision package. Nearly all pupils in Scotland have access to SCHOLAR so if you don't yet have your username and password then please ask a teacher or enquire at the school office.

Unfortunately, I'm at university so I don't get Scholar! And even if I did, you need to be a teacher to get the textbooks :/

Ah, fair enough. Unfortunately we have no plans to make SCHOLAR generally available at Universities at the moment and, like you say, the SCHOLAR PDFs are only officially available to be downloaded by teachers, for the time being. Schools are also able to order printed versions of these PDFs however, which is something that we do hope to make more generally available in the future.

Hopefully, at least some of the others who have posted in this thread will be able to make full use of the resources that we provide on SCHOLAR though...

Personally, I think one of the problems is when I was doing advanced higher maths, we weren't allowed to 'keep' the textbooks, due to the cost we could only borrow them, I think it'd be really useful if you can have online access to them - and it's a real pity you can't get access to them at university!

Personally, I think one of the problems is when I was doing advanced higher maths, we weren't allowed to 'keep' the textbooks, due to the cost we could only borrow them, I think it'd be really useful if you can have online access to them - and it's a real pity you can't get access to them at university!

I assume you're talking about the SCHOLAR textbooks? While not Physical copies, you can download them here if you want a copy.