What book are you using?
We got given three... Cambridge, Patel, Fitzpatrick.
What topic your starting with?
Started with complex numbers and we're doing polynomials now.
What pace is your school going at?
WAY too fast for me.. but everyone else seems to be coping okay. I never get the theory stuff in class, we just spend the whole damn period copying out the formulas/examples on the board ) :
I think we're aiming at two or three topics per term.
How are you coping?
This is the only thing that's going to save my ass in the HSC so I don't want to drop it, but it's pretty hard for me. Especially cos we have a teacher who just kinda writes his stuff on the board and doesn't really explain anything - but that's 4U maths, right? You never get time to understand the theory, you just have to do the work given constantly and then you pick up on the patterns... That's what I do anyway. :uhhuh:
How much time you spend on each exercise?
Oh man, I need at least an hour or two IF I UNDERSTAND IT.. If I don't, it takes much, much longer.
At my school all my math classes are separate; 2U School time, 3U Out, 4U Out. How about yours?
Mine are all on-line, as in all of them are during school time (so happy about that!). The other 4U class has afternoon classes though. (we have two 4U classes).
Have you guys had your first assessment for 4U yet? Mine are tomorrow, 15% weighting... I'm so not prepared.