Further Maths appreciation thread.

S1 is alright.

That sounds so easy. Mine are FP1, M1 and S2 (which some topics are boring). Next year we are going to do FP2, FP3 and M2 (or M2 M3 and FP2 if everyone in my class decides on this).

If you're doing it with edexcel, I'd recommend M3. It's a really nice unit, in my opinion. Much more interesting as well, I found.

I did AS and A2 maths last year, and now doing AS and A2 further this year, this is how I felt about the units I did/am doing:

C1 - boring, basically gcse
C2 - better, but I don't like trig or series so was still pretty dull
C3 - I hate graphs.
C4 - By far the best of the core units, I enjoy calculus a lot.
M1 - Pretty simple, but boring.
M2 - Hard. Hard but interesting.

FP1 - boring, but harder than C1 and C2, which makes it annoying. However better than C1 and C2.
FP2 - Some of it is actually quite fun (integration/differentiation atc.) but graph sketching and polar curve sketching is really dull and sometimes confusing, okay overall.
FP3 - Pretty much love it compared to everything else I've done, Diff equations and groups are great, vectors are a pain but interesting, and complex numbers are coolio if a bit difficult sometimes.
M3 - Why did I even pick this when I need to resit M2?
D1 - OH MY GOD THE MOST BORING UNIT EVER
S1 - Boring and I just hate stats.

I'm on OCR.

So yeah Further >>>>>>> Core!

Well briefly using values found online, and the upper end of neutron star density, a grain of sand equivalent volume would be roughly 38 million kilograms. Or roughly 7000 fully grown male african bush elephants. A mug would hold a lot of grains of sand, it's bloody heavy!

Lol I've spent half of the year not listening or doing homework for D1 that I ended up getting a U in my mock. So I've spent the first week of March learning all of it and now I'm getting As, which kind of pissed me off at how easy and boring it is.

I'd say it s only interesting when you actually use it in real life.

Hoe interesting was M3?

Haha yeah, I never bothered listening or doing work because our teacher was crap. I felt like I didn't understand it at all, so went through the course and did a past paper and now it's pretty simple, just the random questions they throw in about the theory of graphs that get me now...

M3 is more interesting than the other mechanics to be fair, once again the actual content isn't too difficult (bar SHM, that is pretty hard), it's just application that has again become even more difficult over M2

I can do basic rocket science, as a result of M5. Now that's interesting

Haha yeah, I never bothered listening or doing work because our teacher was crap. I felt like I didn't understand it at all, so went through the course and did a past paper and now it's pretty simple, just the random questions they throw in about the theory of graphs that get me now...

M3 is more interesting than the other mechanics to be fair, once again the actual content isn't too difficult (bar SHM, that is pretty hard), it's just application that has again become even more difficult over M2

I might do it instead of S1 for normal maths: I absolutely hate S1 -.-

S2 gets so much more interesting, S1 is the worst​ maths module there is.
Not that I've done M5 (yet)

I'm studying FP1, M1 and D1 for AQA. Finished the syllabus, FP1 and M1 are not too bad, pretty easy tbh. But D1 is so boring. Kmn Anyone else studying AQA?

I do FP1, M1 and D2 for AQA AS Further Maths. My favourite is by far FP1; M1 is alright but can get tedious; D2 is just suicidal.

I do D1 for normal maths and I hate it too lmao

Tell me about it I like FP1 the most out of the three, haven't been doing much revision recently so I'm a bit rusty atm.

What other A-levels are you doing?