2016 School Magazine

YEAR 11 MATHEMATICS A

YEAR 11 MATHEMATICS B

It’s not always the case in Maths that you think what you are learning could be used in the real world, but the topics we have learnt so far in Year 11 Maths A are things that can be taken away and applied when we graduate from BGGS. Studying Maths A has not only allowed for the opportunity to bond with our teachers but provided us with the fundamentals to be confident in our mathematical endeavours. Throughout this subject we have studied construction, data collection, finance, statistics and probability. Fully immersing ourselves in these topics is simple as our enthusiastic teachers create an enriched environment that leaves students eager to learn every lesson.

Year 11 Maths B in 2016 has been a packed year filled with both challenges and opportunities. The course has exposed us to a range of concepts, both completely new and those that continue to build upon familiar foundations, from functions and statistical analysis to logs and exponentials. One of the biggest changes from Year 10 maths was the introduction of an Extended Modelling and Problem Solving Task (EMT) each semester. Although they bring their own learning curves, EMTs give us the time and opportunity to tackle larger problems that go beyond the scope of a normal exam question, which is great for developing our cognitive thinking. One of the really important aspects of Year 11 is that it’s formative, so this year in Maths B has essentially had a safety net, giving us the opportunity to adjust to some new aspects, such as the different marking criteria and the EMTs. Together this enables us to be fully prepared to take on Year 12.

KATE BREEDING (11B) AND ELIZA AMOS (11E)

LUCINDA DUKE (11H)

YEAR 11 MATHEMATICS C I have thoroughly enjoyed taking Maths C as a senior subject this year. Maths C enables students to extend their mathematics skills and knowledge far beyond what they have learnt in the junior school. In Year 11 you learn about matrices, vectors and sequences, among other things. The content covered is challenging, but not overly difficult. Personally, I found the work pleasantly intellectually stimulating. I liked learning about impossible numbers, such as the square root of -1 which is known as ‘i’, as these enable you to do many calculations that would not have been previously possible. I also enjoyed the sequences unit and found the Koch Snowflake problem, in which one must find the total area of an ever-growing snowflake, particularly fun to solve. Overall, Maths C is a very engaging and interesting subject to study.

ISABEL PETERS (11M)

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