SoulSearcher
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Nah, it's just been thrown into the Year 12 Cambridge 3 unit.Wooz said:stuff like prob, plane geomety etc has been left out of cambridge
Nah, it's just been thrown into the Year 12 Cambridge 3 unit.Wooz said:stuff like prob, plane geomety etc has been left out of cambridge
Yeah, you would know a lot about itsimonkey said:Don't be put off when ppl say 3U or 4U, SO EASSYYYY
It seems stupid they would put plane geo, probability into yr 12 when most schools teach it in yr 11 and it's in most yr 11 textbooks.SoulSearcher said:Nah, it's just been thrown into the Year 12 Cambridge 3 unit.
Here's the reason they placed those topics into the year 12 book, quoted verbatim from their year 11 3 unit book:Wooz said:It seems stupid they would put plane geo, probability into yr 12 when most schools teach it in yr 11 and it's in most yr 11 textbooks.
That's their reasoning.Cambridge 3 Unit Year 11 said:We have left Euclidean geometry and polynomials until Year 12 for two reasons. First, we believe as much calculus as possible should be developed in Year 11, ideally including the logarithmic and exponential functions and the trigonometric functions. These are the fundamental ideas in the course, and it is best if Year 12 is used then to consolidate and extend them (and students subsequently taking the 4 Unit course particularly need this material early.) Secondly the Years 9 and 10 Advanced Course already develops much of the work on polynomials and Euclidean geometry in Options recommended for those proceeding to 3 Unit, so that revisiting them in Year 12 with the extensions and far greater sophistication required seemed an ideal arrangement.