m.a.[t.h+(k+1/a.s).e+d/s].s

Things are only as difficult as you want them to be.
Maths teachers really like setting difficult questions

Since my previous post was a little boring, i would like to take this opportunity to blog about the maths (horrorible and terrifying and gothic halloweeny) peer tutoring.

sounds boring right?

let me give you abit more boring background:
Students were suppose to turn up on various dates to ask questions about their maths homework. which consisted of many questions. the perr tutees were suppose to hand in their complete solutions to the 38 questions marked with astericks.

firstly, one question takes approximately one hour.

And the questions were not really easy. Many, including myself [who was suppose to be tutoring] were stumped at the FIRST question.

So basically we sat at tables in class rooms. I sat with joe[from 18/06] for the second session [missed the first session hehe]. Was soon joined by the councillor from 18/06 who was also tutoring [think her name is spelled as Anuska... sorry! i can't even pronounce it....]. Sue Xian from 15/06 also joined us [sorry if i spelled another name wrongly].
Not to familiar with them all [esp the names], but horrible maths is a fantastic icebreaker.

After doing some functions questions [with snide comments on the general situation of maths], we graciously asked a teacher to explain an integration question. she began with," ok you start by......" then i lost her. she finished the question in like 5 minutes, which we had been trying to do for an hour. honestly it felt like she was slapping us with her explaination, which literally went right over our heads.

gosh they make things look simple.

So yes, in utter defeat we did the above algebra. Which should be easy to work out.

so on and on we plodded until we reached sequnces and series.

Ah, the need for imagination.

we are still in shock from the questions.. so well.... maths is more than it appeared to be............

yours campbell and reecey,
cisvol