concerns<\/a> that the maths exam is too wordy. This came about as a result of Project Maths, which aimed to use more real-world examples of maths as a way of making it more relevant to students, but has proven controversial. <\/p>\nThe wordiness of the music question will have been tricky for some students, Duddy said. \u201cI have raised these concerns repeatedly with the State Examinations Commission, but, that said, this year\u2019s paper was less wordy than usual,\u201d said Duddy. <\/p>\n
Studyclix.ie mathematics teacher Stephen Begley, who teaches at Dundalk Grammar School, said the short questions in section A were followed by a far more challenging section B. \u201cA superb set of short questions provided an ideal opening,\u201d he said. \u201cStudents were greeted with familiar bread and butter questions on surd equations, the factor theorem, DeMoivre\u2019s theorem, sequences and series, differentiation and integration, alongside elements of financial maths.\u201d<\/p>\n
The long questions in section B were no walk in the park, Begley said. \u201cCareful reading was needed to get into the frame of mind to take on some busy sequences and series in question nine, which closed with a workable substitution and equation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Duddy said that those who gambled on financial maths may have been disappointed in question 2B, while all teachers agreed that the paper was dominated by calculus, algebra and sequences and series.<\/p>\n
\u201cStudents who had neglected sequences and series in particular may have found themselves under pressure, as the topic appeared in multiple questions and could not easily be avoided,\u201d said O\u2019Leary.<\/p>\n
On the ordinary level paper, Jean Kelly, a maths teacher at the Institute of Education, said that students who struggled with the more abstract aspects of senior cycle maths will have found themselves in a comfortable and assured position.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn section A students will have had no issue finding their preferred five questions,\u201d she said. \u201cThere were a few little tricky diagrams without numbers that might throw a more anxious student but they are few and far between.\u201d<\/p>\n
In section B of the paper, students tackled real-world maths applications such as income tax, bus timetables and marathon training. \u201cStudents will be able to see how the skills practiced in the classroom can be applied to everyday life,\u201d said Kelly.<\/p>\n
Every year, some students inevitably leave any exam worried about the difficulty of particular questions, but the marking scheme is always adjusted to account for the level of difficulty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students were generally relieved with an approachable higher-level maths paper one, but the element of choice allowed them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43491,17163,42,3184,43,28205,2055,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-485176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-cao","tag-classroom-to-college","tag-headlines","tag-leaving-certificate","tag-news","tag-second-level","tag-students","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Maths <\/p>\n