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VCE Stuff => Victorian Education Discussion => Topic started by: Flaming_Arrow on September 06, 2008, 02:52:11 am
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http://www.derrickha.com.au/about_me.html <--- Amazing
he got 50 for methods in year 10 wtf
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He went to school with my brother. Apparently, also seen as a maths god back in his day.
Doesn't mean he makes a good tutor, but I'd have to see him in action to pass judgement on that.
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Wow, that's just remarkable.
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He was our #1 suspect to be AkirA until we saw the fact he did english language :P
Also, is it just me or did anyone else think they were opening a thread about World of Warcraft :(
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lewl he publishes his own revision books nice only the year after yr12...this guy is insanely smart, i have a friend who was in his classes last year.
i like his logo haha. "D"
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Talk about incredible, wow, he's kicked off his future to a nice start. Well done to him. ^_^
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That's incredible! :o
and 50s in five subjects! Wow.
Also, is it just me or did anyone else think they were opening a thread about World of Warcraft :(
Haha yes I thought this too.
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Oh I thought it was a thread about World of Warcraft too rofl x3
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i tricked you guys xD
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i tricked you guys xD
damn you and your tricky capitalisation.
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yes I was wondering why WoW was in VCE discussion xD
this guy is a genius ... *worships*
Doesn't mean he makes a good tutor, but I'd have to see him in action to pass judgement on that.
http://www.derrickha.com.au/endorsements.html all three people can't be wrong ;)
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Yeah, I thought World of Warcraft too
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WoWoW
World of World of Warcraft: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/warcraft_sequel_lets_gamers_play
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That's incredible..5 50's! And imagine entering year 12 with three 50's under your belt!
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derrick is the truth
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OH MY GOD THAT'S AKIRA. AKIRA GOT 48 IN ENGLISH AND ALL OF THOSE OTHER SCORES. WE FOUND AKIRA!
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Yeah. That's what I thought, but I couldn't be bothered checking... he never mentioned that he did English Language did he?
I'm gonna look for this guy at uni and hi-5 him ;)
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Oh wait i don't think he did EL. I'll go hunt through his old posts.
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This guy followed the VCE course plan that I recommended on BoS in that mini-manifesto about how to optimise your ENTER score (multiple English, maths and science for systematically attainable high scores).
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This guy is freakishly good! I would love to know how much study he did to get those scores.
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Bloody hell enwiabe, read before you post :P
OH MY GOD THAT'S AKIRA. AKIRA GOT 48 IN ENGLISH AND ALL OF THOSE OTHER SCORES. WE FOUND AKIRA!
He was our #1 suspect to be AkirA until we saw the fact he did english language :P
Also, is it just me or did anyone else think they were opening a thread about World of Warcraft :(
Akira didn't do EL, and I'm pretty sure he did physics.
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Derrick is amazing. I wish I could attain his mathematical ability. :(
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definately not Akira, he did spec, phys, chem, eng and umep in yr12
50 in spec only scaled to 54.2 last year??
Derrick was probably accelerated from a young age
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the truly amazing goes to uni before anyone else.
/me points at Terrence Tao
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lol my friend showed me Derrick Ha's site in July! lol
He also told me that he saw him at Open day :P :P
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Hmmm, i wonder if this guy has a girlfriend....
If not... ;) hehee
Big $$, successful future and free tutoring...here i come :D
ROFLZ jks jks :P
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the truly amazing goes to uni before anyone else.
/me points at Terrence Tao
+1
That guy is fucking mental. One of my maths lecturers at uni was talking about how even he thought Tao was ridiculous - and this is John Hutchinson, whose groundbreaking paper on fractals released in 1981 has been one of the top ten cited maths papers every year for the last 26 years.
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lol I thought this was a World of Warcraft thread...
I reckon Derrick Ha must have been doing accelerated learning, the type of guy that'll finish Yr 12 Methods in Yr 9 (I mean he got 50 in Yr 10)
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I believe he was doing 3/4 Methods in Year 10.
(such an acceleration program for maths does exist at Haileybury).
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although it's an impressive feat, there are probably many yr 7s out there with the potential to emulate it. They just have to treat maths as
as passion rather than merely a subject [and have a good acceleration program and teachers.]
I remember in yr 7 many of the maths guns didn't enjoy maths, though they worked to get good marks because they were competitive
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I want a maths acceleration program
(or wanted, I'm hopelessly behind now heh :P)
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Hmmm, i wonder if this guy has a girlfriend....
If not... ;) hehee
Big $$, successful future and free tutoring...here i come :D
ROFLZ jks jks :P
Somebody gonna get a hurt real bad.......:P
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uh ohs... please dont hurt me :(
especially when u bite :P
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Hmmm, i wonder if this guy has a girlfriend....
If not... ;) hehee
Big $$, successful future and free tutoring...here i come :D
ROFLZ jks jks :P
Somebody gonna get a hurt real bad.......:P
lmao Russell Peters
that guy is hilarious
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mathematics is not that scary...
first year calculus is very achievable in middle-school if the student has the passion, and the aptitude to handle symbolic manipulations, and all that comes from a solid primary education.
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Speak for yourself MAO
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mathematics is not that scary...
Runs and hides from my awful grades :)
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although it's an impressive feat, there are probably many yr 7s out there with the potential to emulate it.
I reckon my brother does. But he hates anything academic and is the kinda person to do the bare minimum needed to pass (and he's still top of his class)
How do I make him work :( I could have my very own Derrick Ha! :P
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get a chair, throw it at him and tell him to work his ass off because in life, nothing is ever easy.
if that doesn't work, find an opportunity when he has his back turned to you and then run up and jump kick him in the back. hopefully the pain he feels will shake off all that slack.
you might also like to check out a book that i wrote about teens who slack.
it's called 'listen you fucking moron, life is hard and you better start working for it because you are going to fail if you slack. WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT'
RRP $50 at dymocks and borders.
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get a chair, throw it at him and tell him to work his ass off because in life, nothing is ever easy.
if that doesn't work, find an opportunity when he has his back turned to you and then run up and jump kick him in the back. hopefully the pain he feels will shake off all that slack.
great advice
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uh ohs... please dont hurt me :(
especially when u bite :P
dont worry amy, if anyone hurts u i'll hurt them back 10 times as bad :)
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Hmmm, i wonder if this guy has a girlfriend....
If not... ;) hehee
Big $$, successful future and free tutoring...here i come :D
ROFLZ jks jks :P
unfortunately, he does have a girlfriend
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Hmmm, i wonder if this guy has a girlfriend....
If not... ;) hehee
Big $$, successful future and free tutoring...here i come :D
ROFLZ jks jks :P
unfortunately, he does have a girlfriend
*shock* :(
awwws, i'm shattered :P
dont worry amy, if anyone hurts u i'll hurt them back 10 times as bad :)
Hehe thanks Monica :) Your the best !!
And i hope ur directing that at midas_touch :P lol
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W :D W!
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mathematics is not that scary...
first year calculus is very achievable in middle-school if the student has the passion, and the aptitude to handle symbolic manipulations, and all that comes from a solid primary education.
Yeah, years nine and ten mathematics was such a waste of time. I think the idea of solid foundations are taken too seriously. Things like calculus are not difficult, as soon as you learn gradients and polynomials the first time you can get calculus. They just hold it back from you.
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mathematics is not that scary...
first year calculus is very achievable in middle-school if the student has the passion, and the aptitude to handle symbolic manipulations, and all that comes from a solid primary education.
Yeah, years nine and ten mathematics was such a waste of time. I think the idea of solid foundations are taken too seriously. Things like calculus are not difficult, as soon as you learn gradients and polynomials the first time you can get calculus. They just hold it back from you.
actually, it has not been taken seriously enough, particularly in the primary level.
Algebra need to be introduced early! and a solid base in handling symbols need to be established before anyone should learn calculus... otherwise it's just like dummies following procedures...
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I agree, maths is too easy in primary school (was for me at least).
Having said that, one size does not fit all. There should be different maths classes for students with different abilities.
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*shock* :(
awwws, i'm shattered :P
Poor Amy :(
Hehe thanks Monica :) Your the best !!
And i hope ur directing that at midas_touch :P lol
What did I do to receive such unkind treatment? :P
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mathematics is not that scary...
first year calculus is very achievable in middle-school if the student has the passion, and the aptitude to handle symbolic manipulations, and all that comes from a solid primary education.
Yeah, years nine and ten mathematics was such a waste of time. I think the idea of solid foundations are taken too seriously. Things like calculus are not difficult, as soon as you learn gradients and polynomials the first time you can get calculus. They just hold it back from you.
actually, it has not been taken seriously enough, particularly in the primary level.
Algebra need to be introduced early! and a solid base in handling symbols need to be established before anyone should learn calculus... otherwise it's just like dummies following procedures...
Yeah I agree that there needs to be more taught at the primary level, they basically don't go further than the most basic of basics. But I was more referring to the secondary level. I believe a year nine student <i>can</i> handle basic differentiation as long as they understand polynomials, algebra, and ideas about gradients and rates.
Similarly, in year eleven they don't teach you the chain rule, product rule etc. but why not? It's not as if the concept is too difficult to get your head around. You learn antidifferentiation but you don't learn its applications and uses to find area bounded by the graph and the x-axis (btw this is based on Maths Quest 11 Mathematical Methods). I just think that where the course can take that one step further it doesn't. But that's just my opinion.
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Similarly, in year eleven they don't teach you the chain rule, product rule etc. but why not? It's not as if the concept is too difficult to get your head around. You learn antidifferentiation but you don't learn its applications and uses to find area bounded by the graph and the x-axis (btw this is based on Maths Quest 11 Mathematical Methods). I just think that where the course can take that one step further it doesn't. But that's just my opinion.
mmm, in most schools at year 11, you do learn the chain rule, product rule, using antidifferentiation to find areas (and even between graphs)
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Chain and product rule are in MM34
Linear graphs are first introduced in year 9 (and quadratics). Higher degree polynomials come in either year 10 or MM12 (I didn't do year 10 maths)
All I remember about grade 6 maths is lots of doing + - * / by hand. And Bodmas.
However I saw long division for the first time in my life in year 10 :P
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I was told that a lot of primary schools neglect long division, only to bite back come division of polynomials.
(Thankfully, I was taught it! I'm too old!)
Although, I think [b]synthetic division[/b] is a much neater way of doing it.
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my parents + chinese primary school maths textbooks taught me long division xD
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I thought long division was taught in year 4.
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in other countries such as China, Japan etc
i think they kids learn methods 3/4 in year 10, dont quote me though ... but its something like that
edit: or year 9??
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Similarly, in year eleven they don't teach you the chain rule, product rule etc. but why not? It's not as if the concept is too difficult to get your head around. You learn antidifferentiation but you don't learn its applications and uses to find area bounded by the graph and the x-axis (btw this is based on Maths Quest 11 Mathematical Methods). I just think that where the course can take that one step further it doesn't. But that's just my opinion.
mmm, in most schools at year 11, you do learn the chain rule, product rule, using antidifferentiation to find areas (and even between graphs)
lol really? Oh well, I had to go and teach myself, but the fact that it was simple made me believe that it is folly not to include it in the textbooks for year 11s.
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i learnt long division this year.
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I was told that a lot of primary schools neglect long division, only to bite back come division of polynomials.
(Thankfully, I was taught it! I'm too old!)
Although, I think [b]synthetic division[/b] is a much neater way of doing it.
Synthetic division (or a variant thereof) is what I always use to divide polynomials. They taught us how to do long division again in yr10 but I never bothered learning because the way I did it seemed much easier...
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I remember in yr 6 I was doing operations of fractions hw on the bus; a yr 12 student said "shit, i only learnt that stuff in yr 11"
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Whats operations of fractions
you are all making me jealous with how much maths you learnt
I just sit there bored
At least now I can learn 2nd year maths and first year maths both in one year it is fun :D
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addition subtraction multiplicaton division
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but with fractions?
That is year 7-8 stuff!!! :o
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Only a 48 in English??
Haha what a gun. Wouldn't mind a 48 in English myself..
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We need to spend more money on public education in Australia. We are behind the world! :-\
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addition subtraction multiplicaton division
Wha... I remember learning Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision :o
(refer to Heinemann English Language 1/2 Pg 29)
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addition subtraction multiplicaton division
Wha... I remember learning Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision :o
(refer to Heinemann English Language)
/me sadly could pick up that reference without the in brackets comment :(