Year 12 maths students have scratched their heads through a series of HSC exam papers so tricky that one question alone took Australia’s most famous maths teacher three attempts to solve. The 2024 ...
The number of students taking senior school maths has flatlined over the past 10 years, suggesting mathematics participation has "bottomed out" and universities may need to insist on the subject as a ...
Hysterical maths students have taken their HSC woes to TikTok after exam papers that left them feeling “so cooked”, and even some of the state’s best maths teachers reckon they were a tough ask. Year ...
An extra booklet for Standard maths students at the beginning of the exam befuddled some students while a bizarre extended question about crickets chirping left them utterly confused. This year’s ...
And one in particular has become the subject of intense backlash – and memes – after countless students struggled to answer it at all. The issue arose after the syllabus was tweaked by the NSW ...
1. Make a list of the types of mistakes you typically make. This isn’t to specific questions, but patterns of mistakes. Try ‘codifying’ your errors in a way that makes it impossible to make them again ...
Why do we do this to ourselves? As an educational community, why do we set HSC examinations that do not give students the chance to demonstrate what they have learnt about mathematics? Why do students ...
An extra booklet for Standard maths students at the beginning of the exam befuddled some students while a bizarre extended question about crickets chirping left them utterly confused. This year’s ...