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Project Maths Pilot Schools

  • 01-04-2011 5:01pm
    #1
    ciarashauna
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭


    Did everyone else in the pilot schools get your letter from SEC about the Leaving Cert. Or get one from your school for your parents?


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  • #2
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    Isn't this just a dumbing down of LC maths though? All I hear in the papers every june is how a silly number of people fail Ordinary level maths every August.


  • #3
    ciarashauna
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭ciarashauna


    It's only been examined once so far, and that was only Pap 2. I'm pretty sure Project Maths candidates did better aswell, although I think this is purely due to the fact the Dept "looked after them". It's not a dumbing down, it's actually quite a challenging course.


  • #4
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    ciarashauna wrote: »
    It's only been examined once so far, and that was only Pap 2. I'm pretty sure Project Maths candidates did better aswell, although I think this is purely due to the fact the Dept "looked after them". It's not a dumbing down, it's actually quite a challenging course.

    Coventional wisdom tells me otherwise. Besides, if it isn't as hard as the last course, does that not qualify as "dumbing down"? Isn't that the actual aim - Too many people failing LC maths.


  • #5
    ciarashauna
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭ciarashauna


    I never said it wasn't as hard. The aim of Project Maths is to, as far as I can see, is to make maths more real-life and stop rote learning. TBH though it's not really working at all, at least for us in pilot schools, that's judging on mock results. There may be a different story in August though.


  • #6
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    I compared a Project Maths HL paper with a current HL paper. It's obviously easier. Not necessarily easy, but much easier to get on in.


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  • #7
    ciarashauna
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭ciarashauna


    Which paper was it out of curiousty? Yeah I agree the paper looks so much less daunting etc. but it is very hard to get marks unlike the normal paper.


  • #8
    J_E
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,734 ✭✭✭J_E


    It was the 2010 Paper 2 HL I think. I wouldn't say it's easy but parts of it were laughable if you knew what you were doing, i.e drawing an incircle in a triangle, that's JC Maths stuff. I suppose it's easier to pass but a bit harder to hit the A.

    Seems way more focused on statistics and probability.


  • #9
    ciarashauna
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭ciarashauna


    Yeah there is a huge gap of difficulity between certain sections of the paper. The mock paper we got from the Project Maths 'team' contained so much stats. & prob. We have been told to basically ignore that mock paper though as it was too tough.


  • #10
    MathsManiac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭MathsManiac


    Naikon wrote: »
    Conventional wisdom tells me otherwise.

    Conventional wisdom, eh? That proves it, then, beyond a shadow of a doubt.
    ;)


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