Best way to learn Extension 2 yourself? (1 Viewer)

[uncertainty]

Hey any of you tried to learn Mathematics Extension 2 by yourselves?

What books or websites or whatever did you use?

Just wondering what I should do because since I started I heard that only 1 of our maths teachers has actually taught extension 2 before and I'm a bit worried.

Are we allowed to ask here which teachers can actually help me with it?

 

[Drongoski]

Are you in Yr 11 or Yr 12? Are you already doing Ext 2 at your school now?

 

[eyeseeyou]

Ask "why"

 

[uncertainty]

This is for year 12 (can you even do Ext2 in year 11?), at Ruse!

Ask "why"

You mean ask the teachers?

They just make some excuse about stuff not being in the syllabus.

 

[eyeseeyou]

This is for year 12 (can you even do Ext2 in year 11?), at Ruse!




You mean ask the teachers?

They just make some excuse about stuff not being in the syllabus.

Yeah basically ask "why" and "how" and don't accept what you are blindly taught.

Um...get a tutor with a degree in maths (like Drongoski) and ask them

 

[Nailgun]

Hey any of you tried to learn Mathematics Extension 2 by yourselves?

What books or websites or whatever did you use?

Just wondering what I should do because since I started I heard that only 1 of our maths teachers has actually taught extension 2 before and I'm a bit worried.

Are we allowed to ask here which teachers can actually help me with it?

I hear wootube is a good resource (google, its a youtube channel)

 

[eyeseeyou]

Very useful link: https://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/hsc_tips_and_tricks-handbook.pdf

 

[turntaker]

Maths in focus

 

[eyeseeyou]

Just curious to know (to all the 4U students) which 4U topics are easiet to learn? Complex numbers, graphs, polynomials, integration?

 

[si2136]

Just curious to know (to all the 4U students) which 4U topics are easiet to learn? Complex numbers, graphs, polynomials, integration?

Complex Numbers.

 

[eyeseeyou]

If you're strong with physics, does it mean you're going to be good at 3U motion and 4U mechanics?

 

[leehuan]

If you're strong with physics, does it mean you're going to be good at 3U motion and 4U mechanics?

No

 

[eyeseeyou]

No

Do a lot of extension 2 kids struggle with mechanics?

 

[Ambility]

Just curious to know (to all the 4U students) which 4U topics are easiet to learn? Complex numbers, graphs, polynomials, integration?

Complex numbers is a big topic and it requires you to think fundamentally differently about maths more than any other topic, so I'd say it has the steepest of all learning curves. Integration and polynomials are probably of equal difficulty given you have the required 3U knowledge. Graphing is probably the easiest though, you just need to understand what is actually happening when you square root a number, when you square a number, when you take an absolute value etc.

 

[Ambility]

Do a lot of extension 2 kids struggle with mechanics?

I've heard from my teacher that mechanics is the hardest of all topics, but I've not learnt it yet.

 

[Carrotsticks]

I've heard from my teacher that mechanics is the hardest of all topics, but I've not learnt it yet.

Hardly the case.

 

[turntaker]

I've heard from my teacher that mechanics is the hardest of all topics, but I've not learnt it yet.

Harder 3U and conics are pretty hard imo

The rest I found relatively easy, though I didn't practice enough

 

[porcupinetree]

Maths in focus

10/10 would recommend

 

[leehuan]

Harder 3U and conics are pretty hard imo

The rest I found relatively easy, though I didn't practice enough

Mainly the former. Conics is just tackling with algebra

Complex numbers is a big topic and it requires you to think fundamentally differently about maths more than any other topic, so I'd say it has the steepest of all learning curves. Integration and polynomials are probably of equal difficulty given you have the required 3U knowledge. Graphing is probably the easiest though, you just need to understand what is actually happening when you square root a number, when you square a number, when you take an absolute value etc.

What?

Everything in complex numbers was intuitive to me except for loci.

 

[turntaker]

10/10 would recommend

Me too thanks