Question for past year 12s who used an alternative text book

[burbs]

I'd say that if you have Mathsquest, you should get essentials for questions.

If you have essentials, dont use mathsquest for questions. If you're loaded, you can use it for the explanations (of pretty basic questions), but otherwise I don't think there is much use.

I guess my real issue is that I know some teachers at our school were pretty picky about h/w in yr 11, not sure how that translates to yr 12. Now that I think about it at least 10%% of our yr 12s would have used Essentials.

I'm somewhat amazed that a school like MHS is taking a book that is good at explanations over a book with harder questions? I know explanations are of course good, but in a school that has one of the best and strongest cohorts I don't really understand why you wouldn't opt for a teextbook that could challenge students...

You do realise schools have deals with book companies? MHS probably gets a better deal with MQ then Essentials...(or so I was told by Dovey {head of maths} ).

I do realise that, but they also have the ability to change every 3 or so years...

But what incentive do they have? They figure we're MHS nerdy students, we'll go buy whatever book we want - IMO it's about cash and convenience here.

MQ has better explanations apparently. In yr 11 it is sufficient.

[luken93]

Yeh I reckon MQ has better explanations for Spesh

[taiga]

The MHS maths dept is rather mercenary. We used the worst book out (dimensions) for a few years, just because one of the teachers was a writer.

[iNerd]

The MHS maths dept is rather mercenary. We used the worst book out (dimensions) for a few years, just because one of the teachers was a writer.

Bull?

(No, not bullshit, I mean the teacher Bull )

[pi]

The MHS maths dept is rather mercenary. We used the worst book out (dimensions) for a few years, just because one of the teachers was a writer.

Bull?

(No, not bullshit, I mean the teacher Bull )

He was a shit teacher too, don't know how he got to we the 'maths genius' guy in the herald sun footy tipping...

His only good book was the year 9 one, where he did some matrices, other than that, even maths quest trumps his series. Although Dr G (a brilliant teacher for methods and spesh) wrote the spesh one (spesh dimensions), haven't seen it though.

taiga, the pulley part of the yr11 GMA book was interesting though (the general formula).