Easy to understand text books? (1 Viewer)

[treelovinhippie]

Hi

Our teacher can't teach us 4U for shit!

Sure she knows the whole course and probably more maths very well, but when it comes to transferring her knowledge to us (our class of 3) she just cannot do it - she cannot teach it to us in an easy to understand way and also rushes through the work, leaving us with only gaps of understanding on topics.

And this can easily be seen through our 1/2 yearly results which were very crap. I came first with a mark of 30/75 (40%) and the others were 28 and 26.

So I think this is yet another subject (referring to software as well) that I will have to learn myself from the text book.

Though it is pretty damn hard to learn solely from a 4U/Ext2 text book! I have a patel text book, an arnold text book and the excel book. Though they are all very difficult to learn from as I feel they are written in such a complicated way (probably because they've all been written over 3 years ago and never since been revised!). If they were written in an easier to understand way it would be so much better.

So does anyone know of any decent text books or resources that can help me out?

My dad's a maths teacher which is a bonus, but it's almost impossible to find a time when he can help/tutor me.

cheers

 

[shafqat]

yes from tutoring ive found the lack of good 4u teachers a problem
and they're arent any really good 4u books on the market (we weren't able to convince pender to do one last year )
anyway, patels prob best for understanding, arnold + fitzpatrick for questions, coroneos for harder questions
if ur really having trouble, pm me for my msn contact and ill help u out when i have the time

 

[nit]

Pender did say he was working on one didn't he? Whatever it is, he should definitely write a text-book of the calibur of the 3unit/2unit series. That would solve the drought of decent 4u text-books in any case.

 

[shafqat]

did he? ur prob right, hes got tons of decent materials already. remember the circular motion handout, and that hard 4u booklet? that was crazy.

 

[nit]

hard 4u booklet?? I do remember the circular motion hand-out though. That was prepared for a talk at some institution wasn't it? I don't get the impression that he's terribly willing to go through the whole publishing process again. In any case, Coroneos isn't too bad a text-book if you forget for a moment the 8-size font, unintelligible answers and useless ramblings from the old 4u course.

 

[shafqat]

the harder 4u was the handout at the end with all the wallace's product and fundamental theorem of algebra business. we went through it and hardly anybody followed.

yeah coroneos is good, but i dont reckon his explanations are good enough for the average 4u student. cambridge already has a + a, but i reckon they should ditch them for pender

 

[yrtherenonames]

He's only teaching 2Unit maths to 6th form this year...either they thought our year was too stupid to warrant it, or he's busy writing someting, possibly this mythical Pender 4unit maths.

 

[~ ReNcH ~]

Too bad I won't be around to use it by the time it's published (if he is working on one)

On that note...to shafqat, nit + and SGS guys....does he create his own problems for you guys or does he still follow the questions in a textbook?