Prospective maths students: Don't go to Warwick Unis "Problem solving conference"

Just went to Warwick Uni's "Student maths problem solving conference" and it was a complete waste of time.

Also lmao the maths admissions tutor evaluated $L^2 - L - 1 = 0$ incorrectly and stated that $\displaystyle\frac{-1+\sqrt5}{2}$ is the golden ratio

These things happen ... It does not matter how high you perch you can still make silly mistakes or even blunder. I have no problem with that.

True that, but still,

Although my bias against Warwick is well known, these type of conferences from most universities are a total waste.



These things happen ... It does not matter how high you perch you can still make silly mistakes or even blunder. I have no problem with that.

maybe the chap suffers with "lecture fright" in analogy to "stage fright"

no... you know what was worse.. .it was on the powerpoint (so it was made beforehand)... and when he was going through the lecture he still didnt realise it was wrong and we were all too busy chuckling too tell him

Who was it giving the lecture?

I can't remember what was his name but it was an admissions tutor giving a brief 30 minute talk on 'strategies in problem solving'

Does the name Dave Wood sound familiar? This man: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/people/staff/dave_wood/wood.jpg

Just out of interest, what is your bias against Warwick?

I am too busy to have an in depth conversation in the matter.
Usually I am told that I stir up .... , then I will be attacked and by the end I will be called a troll!

I am too busy to have an in depth conversation in the matter.

Usually I am told that I stir up .... , then I will be attacked and by the end I will be called a troll!

I am too busy to have an in depth conversation in the matter.Usually I am told that I stir up .... , then I will be attacked and by the end I will be called a troll!

Ah, no problems then. If you do get time though, I'd be interested to hear your reasons . I won't attack you or call you a troll or anything .

I thought warwick was on par with Imperial until i went to this course lol
When I went to Imperial in y9 (and i was the oldest in the group, the other people were y8 or 7) they taught the RSA algorithim, parametric equations and game theory lmao... not this "sketch x^2 + 1" trivial junk lmao...
and imperial was nicer as a place as well

Which one do you think is going to be your second choice then? (You're applying to Cambridge right?)

finding how many times 100! divides 10