What are the hardest concepts in specialist mathematics?

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Also, what are the easiest?


Anybody got any ideas?




Thanks!

[pi]

Many people find spesh integration to be quite challenging. Personally, I'm probably worst at vectors.

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Many people find spesh integration to be quite challenging. Personally, I'm probably worst at vectors.

What do you think is the best way of improving the concepts/topic you find to be the hardest?
What's your method of attack/strategy?

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[pi]

Many people find spesh integration to be quite challenging. Personally, I'm probably worst at vectors.

What do you think is the best way of improving the concepts/topic you find to be the hardest?
What's your method of attack/strategy?

Mainly practice. I think it is important to practice from a variety of sources too, if the concept is troubling. It's also important to approach it with a bit of confidence, just so you don't get discouraged if it is hard.

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Many people find spesh integration to be quite challenging. Personally, I'm probably worst at vectors.

What do you think is the best way of improving the concepts/topic you find to be the hardest?
What's your method of attack/strategy?

Mainly practice. I think it is important to practice from a variety of sources too, if the concept is troubling. It's also important to approach it with a bit of confidence, just so you don't get discouraged if it is hard.

Specifically speaking, how would you counteract your difficulties with the integration topics/concepts?
i.e. what study guides would you get? And what practice exams would you do?
Would you only do textbook questions? What exactly are your resources when you say "practice from a variety of sources"?

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[pi]

Many people find spesh integration to be quite challenging. Personally, I'm probably worst at vectors.

What do you think is the best way of improving the concepts/topic you find to be the hardest?
What's your method of attack/strategy?

Mainly practice. I think it is important to practice from a variety of sources too, if the concept is troubling. It's also important to approach it with a bit of confidence, just so you don't get discouraged if it is hard.

Specifically speaking, how would you counteract your difficulties with the integration topics/concepts?
i.e. what study guides would you get? And what practice exams would you do?
Would you only do textbook questions? What exactly are your resources when you say "practice from a variety of sources"?

Well, study guides for spesh are pretty useless. What I mean by 'variety' is to use multiple textbooks, get question from other teachers, scab your friends' tutor questions (or get a tutor yourself), the resources here on VN, etc.

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[tony3272]

Many people find spesh integration to be quite challenging. Personally, I'm probably worst at vectors.

Vector proofs will be the death of me. But honestly it really just depends on where your strongest skills lie. I'm not sure if you're in year 12 yet or not, but you should have a rough idea of your strengths and weaknesses at the moment if you are.

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[jane1234]

I find vectors the most difficult. Those proofs...  :tickedoff:
Integration isn't that hard once you get the hang of the different methods you need to use.
Also a lot of people find differential equations difficult, but with enough practice they become fairly straightforward.

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Many people find spesh integration to be quite challenging. Personally, I'm probably worst at vectors.

What do you think is the best way of improving the concepts/topic you find to be the hardest?
What's your method of attack/strategy?

Mainly practice. I think it is important to practice from a variety of sources too, if the concept is troubling. It's also important to approach it with a bit of confidence, just so you don't get discouraged if it is hard.

Specifically speaking, how would you counteract your difficulties with the integration topics/concepts?
i.e. what study guides would you get? And what practice exams would you do?
Would you only do textbook questions? What exactly are your resources when you say "practice from a variety of sources"?

Well, study guides for spesh are pretty useless. What I mean by 'variety' is to use multiple textbooks, get question from other teachers, scab your friends' tutor questions (or get a tutor yourself), the resources here on VN, etc.

are you about using mulitple textbooks?
I thought they only gave you tedious/repetitive questions? wouldn't this be counter-intuitive?

what sort of questions do you mean? like extended response questions? and do you memorise the methodology in the worked solutions?

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[taiga]

I liked Vector Proofs the most.

As for the concepts which you will have had the least experience with, I think Complex numbers and Vectors Proofs would be the newest.

[jane1234]

I liked Vector Proofs the most.

:uglystupid2:

And complex numbers might be new but I'd say it's one of the easiest topics. It's pretty much just solving basic equations except you need to stick an 'i' here and there.

[JinXi]

Kinematics for me since I didn't do physics and every1 else in my class did so the teacher skipped over the basics. Only sac I really studied for and still scored lower than all my other sacs.

That said, once u get the hang of kinematics it becomes a piece of cake.

[vea]

So far I'm good with all the topics up to Kinematics and Mechanics. I don't do physics so I might find those topics challenging. :S

[jane1234]

So far I'm good with all the topics up to Kinematics and Mechanics. I don't do physics so I might find those topics challenging. :S

Those two aren't overly difficult once you get the hang of it. I don't do physics and hated mechanics in GMA last year, but after doing every question in the chapter I'm fairly confident with this topic. Not doing physics shouldn't be too much of a disadvantage.

[acinod]

Complex Numbers is the hardest for me.
Or maybe it's just Dr He...