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Announcement from BOSTES/NESA - 2019 Syllabus Changes for Calculus courses (1 Viewer)

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How about a more substantive change though - rather than tinkering at the edges which seems on the whole what it seems to be?

Like making it more internationally competitive?

Matrices, determinants, cross product, scalar triple product for example!
 
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The criticism is not enough time.

So there is time for what? The other crap they do to make up the units? That's not what they want to do!

Reverse the decision in 1980 to make 4 unit a 1 year course! Go back to the 2 year course.

There are plenty of year 10 students quite capable of doing extension 2 in year 11.

Here are the contents sections of coroneos level 1 (the 2-year course version of extension 2)

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These came out in 1966. Dumbing down happened ever since.

How far behind does Australia need to get before we send ALL our kids overseas to get a proper education?
 
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tywebb said:
The criticism is not enough time.

So there is time for what? The other crap they do to make up the units? That's not what they want to do!

Reverse the decision in 1980 to make 4 unit a 1 year course! Go back to the 2 year course.

There are plenty of year 10 students quite capable of doing extension 2 in year 11.

Here are the contents sections of coroneos level 1 (the 2-year course version of extension 2)

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These came out in 1966. Dumbing down happened ever since.

How far behind does Australia need to get before we send ALL our kids overseas to get a proper education?
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I would love to see the Taylor Series being introduced because that will serve as the root to why we have Euler's identity in complex numbers. Currently, Euler's identity feels separate from the whole thing in the current syllabus.
 
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i found out more info.

Release is due for near the end of term 3 but subject to Minister of Education's approval - so that is the only thing which may make it take longer.
 
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in 2027 there will no longer be common questions in the standard and advanced hsc exams
 
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new syllabuses released

e2: https://curriculum.nsw.edu.au/learning-areas/mathematics/mathematics-extension-2-11-12-2024/overview

e1: https://curriculum.nsw.edu.au/learning-areas/mathematics/mathematics-extension-1-11-12-2024/overview

a: https://curriculum.nsw.edu.au/learning-areas/mathematics/mathematics-advanced-11-12-2024/overview

s: https://curriculum.nsw.edu.au/learning-areas/mathematics/mathematics-standard-11-12-2024/overview

ls: https://curriculum.nsw.edu.au/learning-areas/mathematics/mathematics-life-skills-11-12-2024/overview
 
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new syllabuses released

e2: https://curriculum.nsw.edu.au/learning-areas/mathematics/mathematics-extension-2-11-12-2024/overview

e1: https://curriculum.nsw.edu.au/learning-areas/mathematics/mathematics-extension-1-11-12-2024/overview

a: https://curriculum.nsw.edu.au/learning-areas/mathematics/mathematics-advanced-11-12-2024/overview

s: https://curriculum.nsw.edu.au/learning-areas/mathematics/mathematics-standard-11-12-2024/overview

ls: https://curriculum.nsw.edu.au/learning-areas/mathematics/mathematics-life-skills-11-12-2024/overview
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These new syllabuses start from 2026 right?
 
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tywebb said:
new syllabuses released

e2: https://curriculum.nsw.edu.au/learning-areas/mathematics/mathematics-extension-2-11-12-2024/overview

e1: https://curriculum.nsw.edu.au/learning-areas/mathematics/mathematics-extension-1-11-12-2024/overview

a: https://curriculum.nsw.edu.au/learning-areas/mathematics/mathematics-advanced-11-12-2024/overview

s: https://curriculum.nsw.edu.au/learning-areas/mathematics/mathematics-standard-11-12-2024/overview

ls: https://curriculum.nsw.edu.au/learning-areas/mathematics/mathematics-life-skills-11-12-2024/overview
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They look the same? I thought it was going to change?
 
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apparently euler’s formula has been deleted from the extension 2

do you think that’s a good move, or do you think it is a backward step?
 
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this was in the draft and there was no indication it would be deleted - most people assumed this would remain because the current syllabus and the draft is an improvement on the previous syllabus because in the old one it wasn't thereeuler.png
nesa have a page on the new syllabus at https://educationstandards.nsw.edu....reas/stage-6-mathematics/syllabus-development

in there is the engagement report https://educationstandards.nsw.edu....yllabus-enagement-report-2024.pdf?MOD=AJPERES

and nowhere in that did they say they acted on advice to remove euler's formula

so who made the decision to remove it and why remains a mystery
 
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So will textbooks remove it? Maybe.

However consider this, even though the old syllabus didn't have it, in post #222 the eagle-eyed would notice Coroneos' 1966 book had it anyway:

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so it's kind of been around since the beginning, so some textbooks may decide to keep it in regardless.
 
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even before the hsc started in 1966, in leaving certificate, i have a Coroneos book even older called "A Leaving Certificate Mathematics I Honours Course", 1963 in which he had these 2 questions, and for those lucky enough to have this book, it is on pages 165, 173165.png
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who made the decision to remove it and why remains a mystery
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nothing from nesa says anything about it.

however this was posted recently “The rationale for this is that its use case was not much different from cos x + i sin x anyway, but rather it created some problems whereby students (and teachers alike) naively misunderstood the behaviour of complex valued functions, such as the complex logarithm, complex trigonometric functions, and complex valued differential/integral calculus. These ideas are best reserved for a more qualified and careful treatment at university in a Complex Analysis course. I guess you can say that NESA cut this branch” : https://www.ringomok.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2026_ext2_syllabus_comments.pdf

but it seems yet another excuse for dumbing down based on the idea some teachers are stupid therefore all teachers are stupid and so all the stupid teachers and their stupid students are going to get a dumbed down syllabus. do you like that logic? i don’t.
 
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“its use case was not much different from cos x + i sin x” is also completely wrong

how about

multiplying and dividing complex numbers much more easily

proving de Moivre’s theorem in 1 line

proving compound angle formulae more easily

finding roots of complex numbers in a much more elegant way
 
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