New South Wales Higher School Certificate Mathematics Extension 2

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November 9, 2009

Peter Sullivan's Keynote presentation on the national curriculum at the 2009 MANSW Conference:

PPTX file ; PDF file

Towards an Australian Curriculum

October 28, 2009

The website http://www.angelfire.com/ab7/fourunit/index.html has been updated with links to solutions to the HSC exams from 2009.

Also, a new website 4unitmaths.com has been created to now have 200 papers. Don't confuse this with fourunitmaths.com which is just a simple redirect to this website.

September 28, 2009

Submission for the National Curriculum in the Senior Secondary Years Position Paper

September 22, 2009

Video of Structure and Randomness in the Prime Numbers lecture at ANU given by Terry Tao

MP4 file: http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/tv/fora/anu_terrytao_full.mp4

September 16, 2009

Terry Tao's public lecture at UNSW

August 24, 2009

All that effort adds up to a gold medal - SMH article on Sampson Wong

August 20, 2009

Senior Secondary Years Curriculum Position Paper (Submissions due September 30, 2009)

July 19, 2009

Terry Tao's lecture he gave at the 2009 IMO

July 16, 2009

2009 IMO

Congratulations to the Australian team's Andrew Elvey Price and Sampson Wong for their Golds, Aaron Chong for his Silver, Stacey Law and Alfred Liang for their Bronzes and Dana Ma for her Honourable Mention!

July 9, 2009

Elementary proof of the probability integral

Although 4 unit students can understand it, many from other states won't be able to understand it.

ACARA are creating a mess. They are deliberately keeping everything as vague as possible. Also, they are often contradicting themselves. It's becoming a farce.

The BOS said their syllabus is to be implemented in 2010. Now they are saying to use the old syllabus in 2010.

ACARA are saying theirs is for implementation in 2011. But with a 1-year-in-schools-first rule, coupled with the fact the national syllabus won't be ready till the middle of 2010, it is clear it won't be implemented in 2011.

Some have suggested this farce has gone on long enough and have said a new syllabus from the BOS or ACARA will never be implemented.

All we are getting is constant vagueness, contradictions and delays.

June 3, 2009

The NCB have been replaced by ACARA which extends their influence from strictly only curriculum to also now include assessment and reporting, in accordance with the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority Act, 2008. Their new website is www.acara.edu.au

May 6, 2009

The NCB have released the updated shape paper for mathematics and consultation report today.

March 31, 2009

More Delays

The decision taken at the last Board of Studies meeting on March 31 regarding the implementation of new Stage 6 Maths curriculum is as follows.

The Board of Studies agreed:

(i) to endorse the Stage 6 Mathematics syllabuses.

(ii) to advise the Minister not to approve the Stage 6 Mathematics syllabuses for implementation at this time pending the outcomes of the national curriculum development.

(iii) that the Board use the Stage 6 Mathematics syllabuses as the basis of its advice to the National Curriculum Board concerning the national syllabuses.

(iv) that the issue be revisited at its December 2009 meeting to consider progress of the national Stage 6 Mathematics syllabus.

The Office of the Board wanted to hold off implementation indefinitely, pending National Curriculum development, however the teacher reps on the Board opposed this because: The current syllabuses were not reviewed in 1996 as others were and are therefore dated; the new syllabuses are ready and teachers want them – especially new courses; it is unknown when the National Curriculum will be implemented, especially in stage 6.

The result of the debate was that the Board decided to review the decision to implement in December.

March 19, 2009

Correction to Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

In line 7 on page 495 on older versions of the online pdf file, should be replaced with

The file http://users.tpg.com.au/nanahcub/flt.pdf has now been corrected.

It is glaringly obvious, but for some reason has eluded everyone for the 15 years it's been on the net till now!

I thank Andrew Morrow for bringing this to my attention.

February 26, 2009

Submission for the National Mathematics Curriculum Framing Paper

January 1, 2009

The Delay.

The Syllabus was due for release December 2008.

Due to confusion in the Drafts, Bill Pender said in his submission that the only reasonable thing to do is to delay the release of the Syllabus. But of course the Board of Studies in their unreasonableness decided to not delay it. That is, until the Minister told them to delay it. So it will now be delayed.

Practice papers

200 papers

64 papers

Teaching Resources

Barbarians at the Helm, by Derek Buchanan

How NOT to find the surface area of revolution, by Derek Buchanan

Terry Tao's Powerpoint presentation at Sydney University, February 7, 2008

Hard Problems on youtube. This is a trailer of a new movie released on January 8, 2008 about the 2006 IMO.

Johan Wastlund's Elementary Proof of the Wallis Product Formula for pi

Yet another proof of the irrationality of e

DON'T BAN YOUTUBE!

Three Unit Notes 1

Three Unit Notes 2

Alf van der Poorten's 28 online Number Theory lectures (28 mp4's)

Professional mathematics versus amateur mathematics

Syllabus (from boredofstudies server)

Submission for Stage 6 Syllabus Review

New Topics for the Draft Writing Brief and Writing Brief

Extract of Response to the Draft Writing Brief

New draft syllabus

Sample HSC Questions for the Draft Syllabus

Submission for Draft Syllabus

Sixty 4 unit lectures

Mathematics Extension 1 website

A new Mersenne prime, 243,112,609-1 has been found on August 23, 2008 on Edson Smith's computer and is the largest known prime to date and has 12,978,189 digits 316,470,269,...,511 which you can download at http://prime.isthe.com/no.index/chongo/merdigit/long-m43112609/prime-c.html It is the first discovery of a prime with more than 10,000,000 digits and hence the $100,000 prize can thus be claimed. There is another prize for the first discovery of a prime with more than 100,000,000 digits for $150,000. More info on these prizes are at http://www.eff.org/awards/coop More info on this discovery is at http://www.mersenne.org

Also, on Monday, Jan. 15, 2007 the largest known twin primes were found by Eric Vautier. They are 2003663613x2195000±1 both of which have 58711 digits, the smaller of which is at http://users.tpg.com.au/nanahcub/LargestTwinPrime15-1-2007.txt. Add 2 for the larger one (i.e., replace the last digit, 7, by 9).

Summary of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

Online videos on Fermat's Last Theorem: uktv ; msri

Bill Pender's Harder 3 unit inservice

pisquaredonsix.pdf

Wiles' online lecture

Clay Meeting online

Tate's online lecture

Atiyah's online lecture

David Hilbert's radio address

English translation of Hilbert's radio address

SMH HSC Survival Guide 2008

Assignments

International Mathematical Olympiads 1959-2003

International Mathematical Olympiad, 2004, Athens, Greece

International Mathematical Olympiad, 2005, Merida, Mexico

2006 IMO + solutions

IMO 2007, Ha Noi, Vietnam

2008 IMO and YouTube of Australian Team for the 2008 IMO

AIS Maths Focus Day summary

1916 LC, 1989 HSC and 2001 HSC

Another proof of the irrationality of e

2004hsc8bsol.pdf

Alternative solution to 2003 HSC Q3(a)(iv)

Have your pi and e it too.

The General Conic and Dandelin Spheres

The Cubic Formula

The Quartic Formula

Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra

University Mathematics

Harvard University's notes

History

More history

Euclid's elements

Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem

Proof of the Taniyama-Shimura-Weil Conjecture

Poincare conjecture

Proof of Poincare conjecture - part 1

Proof of Poincare conjecture - part 2

Proof of Poincare conjecture - part 3

Perelman on YouTube

The Riemann Hypothesis - Part 1

The Riemann Hypothesis - Part 2

Lagarias Equivalence to the Riemann Hypothesis

Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture

Hodge conjecture

Navier-Stokes equations

Yang-Mills theory

P vs NP

Other websites

MonkeyTeX - an online LaTeX editor - one that doesn't require anything to be installed. Too many philistines are using Word. They should stop being philistines and start using LaTeX. If monkeys can do it, why can't you?

 

Fields medallists

Terry Tao on YouTube

Valentin Vornicu's Mathlinks forum

Number Theory Website

Clay Mathematical Institute

Enoch Lau

Integrals online

Tony van Ravenstein

Higher School Certificate Online

The American Mathematical Society


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Derek Robert Buchanan

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Taylors College, Sydney

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