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Started watching Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War Too much in it to binge. So will stretch it out over 9 days.

Here are the others for ext 2, ext 1, adv, std 1 and std 2: This has all 4 mp3s and pdfs so is much larger than the other one: https://www.mediafire.com/file/8xq2e6g2fco05sr/nesa-presentations-2023hsc.zip/file note that the standard 1 and 2 are combined

Ext. 2 recording: https://www.mediafire.com/file/twgdyon9n6oowot/e2-nesa-presentation-2023hsc.zip/file It comes with mp3 and pdf of slides. I'll put the others up later.

In the absence of any consultation whatsoever the Daily Telegraph took it upon themselves to run a poll and here were their results so far: Maybe the 20% who voted no are maths teachers and the other 80% who voted yes are everybody else who don't want to teach maths! They need to run another...

I also think that when an education minister makes decisions outside the constraints of the Education Act, this exposes the government to legal challenge. If compulsory hsc maths without consultation went ahead in 2026 any student forced to do maths who didn't want to could have grounds for...

The Daily Telegraph beat NESA in getting this info out. So why did it take so long for NESA to respond? In 2019 the government made the announcement of compulsory maths - without consultation. And now the government scrapped it - again without consultation. Constitutionally, the NSW minister...

NESA has a page on it now: https://www.nsw.gov.au/education-and-training/nesa/news/all/nesa-statement-mathematics-year-11-and-12

Some people complained to me they can't see the article from the link. I attached a pdf for it

They can’t get enough qualified maths teachers now let alone then if it became compulsory.

The original plan was to have HSC maths compulsory from 2026. But that is no longer the case. English will remain the only compulsory HSC subject from 2026 onwards...

if hollywood want to make movies about talking animals they should make one about talking parrots like this caution: he may activate your siri-enabled devices!

watching kung fu panda 4 now fake talking animals are a thing in hollywood real talking parrots are a better thing on tiktok 🤣

iOS 17.4 released today has fixed the syncing issue so no need to kill MDCrashReportTool anymore.

Even more insidious is the practice of encouraging students who are amply capable of doing advanced maths to take standard instead to get a higher atar. Regardless of atar this ultimately disadvantages them if they intend to do a maths-dependent degree.

The excuse Sydney uni gave was teacher shortage resulting in low SES schools unable to offer the higher level maths courses. But embracing mediocrity created by inept schools and lowering the standard of the university isn't a solution. It's just going to result in more problems like more...

Well another consequence of this is probably even fewer students taking advanced maths which no amount of bureaucratic spin could argue is a good thing.

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-university-abandons-hsc-prerequisites-in-diversity-push-20240301-p5f918.html Sydney uni are removing advanced maths prerequisites But more bums on seats just leads to more failing students. Also, it sends the wrong message, eg., it doesn’t matter if...

Yesterday I saw Shackleton: The greatest Story of Survival and now I am watching Miller's Girl I think Shackleton: The greatest Story of Survival is much better than Miller's Girl They are very different movies so maybe the comparison is unfair but to justify my claim, imdb has average rating...

Dune Part Two. If you saw it, what did you think?

Since August 21, 2023 there has been an incorrect solution by lpieleanu to intermediate q30 on aops at https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c4h3127970_australian_math_competition_2023 and despite having 120 views since then nobody corrected it. Even without access to the answer key, and...