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Post  Ihita Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:38 am

How many people do we need (who drop maths) to make it not compulsory?
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Post  d3st1nyliang Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:39 am

its usually compulsory
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Post  Ihita Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:50 am

just out of curiosity, if you are dropping maths, can you let us know here?
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Post  chrisk Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:56 am

xD...I'm lost

I always thought maths wasn't compulsory.
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Post  d3st1nyliang Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:59 am

then why are all yr 11's doing it this yr? also its easier to create lines with compulsory maths
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Post  chrisk Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:01 pm

d3st1nyliang wrote:then why are all yr 11's doing it this yr? also its easier to create lines with compulsory maths

That doesn't make it compulsory. From the subject selection booklet: English is the ONLY compulsory subject in the senior school.
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Post  Ihita Thu Jul 09, 2009 12:05 pm

It's not technically "compulsory" but because of the lines and stuff, it pretty much becomes compulsory because not enough people drop it to count. Sad
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Post  simmonsn Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:07 pm

Ihita wrote:It's not technically "compulsory" but because of the lines and stuff, it pretty much becomes compulsory because not enough people drop it to count. Sad

Let me clear this up, although I think you pretty much have it.

Maths is NOT compulsory.

The problem in the past has been that so few choose not to do it that it makes it impossible to put another subject up against it.

The question is not only how many do not want to do maths, but do they all have a subject in common that they want to do?
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Post  I_C_E Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:51 pm

why wouldn't you do maths? =O
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Post  Sharon den Adel Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:56 pm

Because some people hate it
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Post  supersath Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:47 pm

I_C_E wrote:why wouldn't you do maths? =O

And some people aren't good at it....

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Post  NSiriwardena Thu Jul 09, 2009 2:48 pm

supersath wrote:
I_C_E wrote:why wouldn't you do maths? =O

And some people aren't good at it....

Which is consequently why they hate it,
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Post  codieface Fri Jul 10, 2009 6:31 pm

I was under the impression it was possible not to do maths if you took another class with open high school, but I could be wrong (at the very least, that was my plan for getting out of maths for Year 11 & 12)
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Post  Gabi Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:49 am

I_C_E wrote:why wouldn't you do maths? =O

I'm not doing maths and the reasons would be that i hate it and am fairly terrible at it which may stem from the fact that i hate it

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Post  Jaffers Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:25 pm

I think if you want to drop it real bad they can't do anything but I bet they used some scare tactics in this years yr 11 to get no one to drop it :p
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Post  simmonsn Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:37 pm

Jaffers wrote:I think if you want to drop it real bad they can't do anything but I bet they used some scare tactics in this years yr 11 to get no one to drop it :p

You can bet, but you would lose. No "scare" tactics were used.
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Post  khfreakau Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:38 pm

But Mr Simmons, how could you know that none of the other teachers were secretly pushing all their students to do maths?
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Post  Jaffers Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:52 pm

He's a math teacher, he's covering for them :p
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Post  simmonsn Sat Jul 11, 2009 1:57 pm

khfreakau wrote:But Mr Simmons, how could you know that none of the other teachers were secretly pushing all their students to do maths?

The only students we would push to do maths are those who we believed could do well.

Unfortunately we have a lot of students who do not realise how good they actally are at the subject. You see we only see things from our own perceptions, and because our group is so strong at maths, we sometimes perceive that we are rubbish at it.

If you could look at the bigger picture and see how good you are compared to the state, then your perception may well change.

I guess when the final results come out this year you may see that.

However if you really hate maths, then don't select it, it may upset your maths teacher but at the end of the day, nobody wants to see someone doing something they hate, if it can be avoided.

And no, this is not a cover up.
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Post  Sharon den Adel Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:05 pm

I personally believe that everyone in our grade could do extension maths if they bothered to put the extra effort in. Shocked
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Post  PONYTA Sat Jul 11, 2009 2:25 pm

tranquil1ty wrote:I personally believe that everyone in our grade could do extension maths if they bothered to put the extra effort in. Shocked
That's like saying that everyone could do well at any given subject at all if they bothered to put the extra effort in. The fact is, people don't want to because a) they'd rather be doing something else and b) they're under no obligation to.

And from what I surmised from the Year 11 Exam Timetable thing that gave an overview of the numbers of students doing each subject, there was one person not doing maths. Although that could be wishful thinking. Sad
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Post  Sharon den Adel Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:04 pm

PONYTA wrote:
tranquil1ty wrote:I personally believe that everyone in our grade could do extension maths if they bothered to put the extra effort in. Shocked
That's like saying that everyone could do well at any given subject at all if they bothered to put the extra effort in. The fact is, people don't want to because a) they'd rather be doing something else and b) they're under no obligation to.

And from what I surmised from the Year 11 Exam Timetable thing that gave an overview of the numbers of students doing each subject, there was one person not doing maths. Although that could be wishful thinking. Sad

Not really.
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Post  PONYTA Sat Jul 11, 2009 3:36 pm

tranquil1ty wrote:
PONYTA wrote:
tranquil1ty wrote:I personally believe that everyone in our grade could do extension maths if they bothered to put the extra effort in. Shocked
That's like saying that everyone could do well at any given subject at all if they bothered to put the extra effort in. The fact is, people don't want to because a) they'd rather be doing something else and b) they're under no obligation to.

And from what I surmised from the Year 11 Exam Timetable thing that gave an overview of the numbers of students doing each subject, there was one person not doing maths. Although that could be wishful thinking. Sad

Not really.

Oh, okay then. I stand corrected.
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Post  Gabi Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:52 am

PONYTA wrote:That's like saying that everyone could do well at any given subject at all if they bothered to put the extra effort in. The fact is, people don't want to because a) they'd rather be doing something else and b) they're under no obligation to.

And from what I surmised from the Year 11 Exam Timetable thing that gave an overview of the numbers of students doing each subject, there was one person not doing maths. Although that could be wishful thinking. Sad

you can not do maths even if everyone else is doing it buy doing an open high school subject i believe, which is what i plan on doing tongue

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Post  I_C_E Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:10 am

But everyone loves maths! =O
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