Australian students stumped by maths question...

Started by Leon, 03 November 2015, 11:16:31 PM

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Ithoriel

To be honest I judged by eye that it was 60o then worked out how you proved that.

Given that, as I said, when it came to sitting Highers the Maths Department suggested I would be better doing French (to be fair the French Department suggested I did Maths but they lost! :) ) it doesn't say much for the teaching of Maths in Australia that this was a problem.

Alas, this seems to me to be one more downside of teaching children to pass exams rather than teaching them the subject.

For my History Higher course the syllabus covered Europe from 1816-1913 and Scotland from the 1600s to the 1800s. Having studied previous papers I prepared four topics in depth, needing to answer three questions. None of them came up!! I was able to get an "A" by giving answers on the boundaries of the Roman Empire, the armies of Gustavus Adolphus and the Code Napoleon because I was taught History not Exams!    

</rant>  :)
There are 100 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who can work from incomplete data

Sean67

Easiest way was flat surface 180 degree two 50 cent coins meeting at the 90 degree so three angles = 60 degree each.
Simples
Sean