I think he's wrong, and think it gives an equivalent fraction, but then again, it's been a while since I have been at school.

Anyway...will sort it out tomorrow.


cheers.

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..You are absolutely correct, and this maths really irks /annoys me , more than you know because it's not precise, it's like expecting an English student to intentionally misspell a word just so it flows well, or looks good in print.  

Thankyou for your help, but there are pages of equations here, and whilst my son is a gifted student and appears to have completed them all, he's up against the best, and even those who's parents spend a fortune giving their children an advantage.  Eg, one of the boys in his class has a father who travels the world for work, and when in Holland, he gave his sons maths assessment to a university maths professor to do, complete with working out, to the tune of 15 pages, and this kid went to school and gloated about how his fathers friend blitzed his assessment for him in his advanced maths class of which was worth 40% of his entire grade.  Very unfair.  

All the other students in my sons advanced maths class have tutors and parents who push their children like you have no idea, where as my son does everything himself al la natural, and has never had a maths tutor, simply because I believe they should only be appointed when  kids are  genuinely struggling,(based on principle)  not so as to gain an unfair advantage over your peers in an already brainy maths class filled with brains. When I was at school, tutoring was for the not-so-clever-kids....now it's for those who's parents want to purchase their kids way into university.

However, now things are getting rather competitive, this is year 10 afterall, I'm beginning to weaken, so will be looking into getting him some professional prep-exam  tutoring, I mean, some of these kids are being handed practice exam papers which are believed to be hot.

Not last years my friend, or the years before, apparently they are 2010's test papers, (if this kids telling the truth of course) of which I think is absolutely bloody disgraceful if she is, given these kids parents are essentially buying their kids grades, so wrong.

I can tell you now, if I decide to acquire a maths tutor for my son, and they even so much as offer to get cheat- exam papers for him, I will demand they leave my house immediately this and will report them to the department of education.   No wonder kids these days lack morals and scruples.

I don't believe they should be completing these sorts of tests/assessments at home to begin with, of which gives them the opportunity to cheat, and I think half the time teachers know this and are happy to let them knowing it stands to make them look better if their advanced students ace tests this oppose to fail them, no thanks to Gillard now planning on paying teachers bonuses to jump through hoops, this and or degrade them via a myschools website.

All this sort of thing does is creates an incentive for more corruption and dishonesty. But are they really learning?

Like I warned my son, once you start cheating, you have set the standard, it's like living a half/cursed life, one that has to be falsely and highly maintained forever more.

It's unnatural, and in the end, those who do it fail themselves intellectually in the long run anyway, due to their brains having dulled the pathways to their own higher order thought processes, ingenuity, and creativity.

It's not the answers , it's how you get them that makes all the difference,  some things just cant be purchased. Brains is one of them.



Here's what I'm going to do....  once this assignments been submitted, and marked...I will post you guys some  of it, it's 8 pages long.... it's worth 30%.

A huge assessment for kids to be taking home due to what it's worth grade wise I think.

In other words, whoever can cheat the best, gets the better grade.

...  My son will not be cheating, if I decide to get him some pre-exam/revision tutoring, I'll be making sure they know how I feel on the subject of cheaters tutoring, and will gage their reactions , use them as an indicator as to whether or not I decide to employ them.

I wont have them cheating him out of reaching his own potential, just so they can get a great reputation as being a fantastic pre-exam tutor locally.

And I will just add, all the kids in his class agree they haven't learned half of it, and or if they did, she only brushed over it very quickly, but unlike them, who gloat.."Oh, that's ok, our tutors will help us complete ours for us" my son had to do his all by himself, without assistance.

The only assistance he had was a website called "Maths on line"...of which covers topics, has tutorials, an online maths program available to every secondary student in Australia free of charge.

http://www.mathsonline.com.au/

mellie wrote on Aug 13^th, 2010 at 8:28am:


Relax, Mellie - they're pretty much all on their own in the exams (except for the few who qualify for disability assistance)...

Our local/regional bookstore has books full of past exam papers and study guides: the whole back wall of the shop is stacked full of them - ranging from pre-school upwards - especially for Yrs10-12...

My Yr10 son and me went there only last week, to flick through some of the books and booklets - so that he could get a better idea of the course content (and associated resources) for all the Yr11/12 subjects he was considering doing...

He told me not to ever bother buying any of the that past exam paper books - as they are now available for free online...

Equitist wrote on Aug 13^th, 2010 at 8:38am:


Equ, please read my response again, you are just not getting it.

THEY ARE NOT PRACTICE TESTS THIS GIRL DOES ON HE TUTORS COMPUTER AND HER TUTOR IS COMPLETING  ASSESSMENTS WORTH 40+% OF THEIR GRADES WEIGHT AT HOME FOR HER WHICH SHE THEN IN TURN SUBMITS AS HER OWN WORK.

THIS GIRL READILY ADMITS HERSELF THAT IF IT WASN'T FOR HER TUTOR COMPLETING HER TAKE-AWAY ASSESSMENTS FOR HER AT HOME SHE WOULD NOT BE IN THE ADVANCED MATHS CLASS NOR WOULD SHE HAVE A SOCIAL LIFE.

To add insult to injury, my sons best friend missed out on being in his advanced maths class with him by one point/seat this year.

If it weren't for these cheats, the kids who genuinely deserve to be in this class with my son would be in there with him.

All graded assessments should be done IN CLASS...  and "homework" correct answers or not should not count towards their overall grade, only their application result.

mellie wrote on Aug 13^th, 2010 at 8:44am:


Dunno about your son's school, Mellie, but....as soon as subject selections are finalised, my son's school intends to separate the kids who are doing advanced/extension maths in Yr11/12 from those who aren't - and to start teaching towards the Yr11/12 curriculum accordingly...

No doubt, a few of the current Yr10 kids, who chose advanced/extension maths in Yr11/12, will drop down before the start of next year...