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Vagabundo posted:For all the furore about that MCAT exam, it should be noted that it generally was at Level 6 of the Achievement Objectives for Mathematics in the NZ Curriculum, even if it was in the high end of things. On another note, the vast majority of the Y11s that sat the exam at my school passed. I was wondering how it had been received. Tbh looking at the questions I didn't think they were that hard? And we've been asking primary school kids to demonstrate their maths knowledge/skills in context like that for like 15 years now.
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Sep 26, 2016 06:05
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Have they been asked to show their arts and creativity as well?
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Sep 26, 2016 08:29
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When I looked at it it didn't seem overly hard, but it did seem quite long. Add in exam pressure and this being the first real exam for a lot of them and I can see where the panic came from.
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Sep 26, 2016 08:39
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National can't teach kids (also that first question was a really rough sucker punch, if you didn't get the trick of the question you'd be absolutely hosed on what is supposed to be the easiest part and I can totally understand getting extremely frustrated and bailing at that point)
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Sep 26, 2016 09:08
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Somfin posted:National can't teach kids Has the real question been posted somewhere?
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Sep 26, 2016 09:49
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/education/news/article.cfm?c_id=35&objectid=11712559Somfin posted:National can't teach kids Christ, I must be thick, that question threw me for ages but you can just factorize and get x-2, right? I've forgotten so much of this stuff.
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Jaguars! posted:Christ, I must be thick, that question threw me for ages but you can just factorize and get x-2, right? I've forgotten so much of this stuff. That part wasn't so tricky for me, but I have no idea what I know about the value of x.
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Sep 26, 2016 13:19
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Yeah that first one isn't /too/ bad, but I am a 40 year old software engineer who did first year math at uni and has more recently tutored teenagers whose first language isn't English. I think the second part of question 1 is a bit mean. I think if I busted out pen and paper I'd be stumped by some of the others that's for sure!
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Sep 26, 2016 15:07
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It's a linear measurement that helps define the length of the sides. If the equation was just area = x², then x would be the length of the sides of a square. If you put it in factorized form, it's an easy way of seeing length of both sides. The long dimension is x+1, and the other is x-2. If you are given a value of x, multiply them together and you get the area. Do I get a merit?  I spent way to long last night with drawing rectangles before I thought back to what we actually did in NCEA 1 maths.
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Sep 26, 2016 21:05
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Also x-2 has to be greater than zero or else it makes no physical sense.
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Sep 26, 2016 21:25
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Nah, then it just exists as antimatter. Be very, very careful with values of x that are close to zero.
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Sep 26, 2016 21:44
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Was someone at the Auckland mayor event at shadows or something that could explain what happened ? I just saw a grainy video on YouTube of a hunch of people yelling and then that serial troll candidate guy Adam Holland yelling alla Akbar wearing a kaftan
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Varkk posted:Also x-2 has to be greater than zero or else it makes no physical sense. Yeah I think what they were going for was some explanation of how you know x is greater than 2
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bike tory posted:Yeah I think what they were going for was some explanation of how you know x is greater than 2 Can't equal 2 or -1, because it's a rectangle and not a line?
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 quote:During September support for National fell for the second straight month, by 4.5% to 41.5% (the lowest support for National in three years since September 2013) now clearly behind a potential Labour/Greens alliance 45.5% (up 5.5%) for the first time in a year – since September 2015 after Prime Minister John Key attended several overseas summits in early September. What's even happened in the past month
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Sep 27, 2016 10:08
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Trump was in the news and the great unwashed saw the parallels. Oh, wait, it decreased. Yeah, I'unno.
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Somfin posted:Can't equal 2 or -1, because it's a rectangle and not a line? Also can't be less than two because you can't have a side of negative length
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WE B Bourgeois posted:
Nothing, those are 5 straight lines with nothing but statistical noise. It's depressing how little those polls shift, at all, ever.
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Sep 27, 2016 10:46
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Good to see the greens doing exactly the same as they have always done for the last like ten years
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Sep 27, 2016 10:48
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I am assuming that this poll is for the party vote?
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WE B Bourgeois posted:
Maybe reality is creeping in temporarily with Key out of the country solving Syria rather than giving reassuring fluff radio interviews or news soundbites.
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Sep 27, 2016 22:22
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The ironic thing is the stuff he has been doing publicly in the US have been fairly good. Making the right noises on Syria and calling out Donald Trump(even though he is a lovely watered down NZ version of Trump) etc. Maybe we can send him off to be our ambassador to the US.
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Sep 28, 2016 00:09
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His nosies on Syria is just that, nosies. I can't believe he is trying to claim the moral high ground again when he only took action after overwhelming public pressure last time he went bashing everyone about it.
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Sep 28, 2016 00:54
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What in the jesus gently caress is happening in Auckland?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFR6QNjYzAg
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Sep 28, 2016 05:25
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Varkk posted:Maybe we can send him off
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Sep 28, 2016 05:39
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Don Brash: Still racist as all hell. http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/84742581/antiseparatist-campaign-launched-against-maori-favouritism-ahead-of-2017-election
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504 posted:What in the jesus gently caress is happening in Auckland?? the gently caress?
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504 posted:What in the jesus gently caress is happening in Auckland?? That ending.
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Sep 28, 2016 06:06
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Do you guys not have mayoral debates in the smaller cities?
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Pararoid posted:Don Brash: Still racist as all hell.
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Sep 28, 2016 06:59
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Adam Holland is that guy who puts himself on every ballot he can supposedly for laughs, but the amount of time he spends on campaign stuff actually going to events and poo poo show that he takes it more seriously and has higher hopes for his chances than he actually lets on.
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Ghostlight posted:Do you guys not have mayoral debates in the smaller cities? We have one guy standing for Mayor so no point having a debate. Or even a vote really.
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504 posted:What in the jesus gently caress is happening in Auckland?? lol
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Hell people belittle my rural lifestyle but at least I don't have to put up with clowns running the infrastructure that I don't even really use. The only thing the council does for me is maintain the road to my property and make sure my animals don't poo poo in the stream. They don't even collect my rubbish, I have to chuck all that in the wetlands  People take this being in charge of roads, letting people build leaky buildings and collecting other people's rubbish job very seriously Moo Cowabunga fucked around with this message at 11:29 on Sep 28, 2016 |
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bike tory posted:Adam Holland is that guy who puts himself on every ballot he can supposedly for laughs, but the amount of time he spends on campaign stuff actually going to events and poo poo show that he takes it more seriously and has higher hopes for his chances than he actually lets on. I have seen this guy do troll runs for various political offices and get his obviously troll quotes in papers and stuff for years now- it definitely is a little pathological and he enjoys it more than a troll wants to let on.
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Nah they just chuck chlorine in
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I joked that I voted for the DHB by going through the booklet and voting for any candidate who didn't state that vaccines cause autism until I got sick of doing it. That's how I've discovered that one of my co-workers believes that vaccines cause autism.
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Jaguars! posted:I joked that I voted for the DHB by going through the booklet and voting for any candidate who didn't state that vaccines cause autism until I got sick of doing it. Amazingly autism causes a belief that vaccines cause autism
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