Introduction Back when I took IGCSE Additional Mathematics in Sec 3 and 4, seeing that I had to learn calculus and the idea of it freaked me out. Everybody has always said how challenging it was. When I first started learning it, yes, it was hard, but eventually, it became one of my favorite Maths …
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Math… *sigh* I don’t think I have struggled with Maths as much as I do now up until IB. When I made the decision to take Math HL back in Sec4, I had already anticipated for it to be really challenging, but the level of difficulty exceeded my expectations. MAAHL has been a roller coaster …
“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.” Henry Ford Preparation Some time last year, between late-ish November to early December, the Junior College Mathletes started planning SISMO. SISMO stands for Singapore School Mathematics Olympiad, and is the first ever Mathematics olympiad our school has ever organized. This event was …
It’s the first e-journal of 2020. In this blog, I will be answering TOK questions that Mr Kichan gave us. TOK stands for Theory of Knowledge and it basically questions everything about life and your existence (just like how I’m questioning my life choices being in MAAHL). It questions on how we know the knowledge …
“Math is fun, it teaches you life and death information, like when you’re cold, you should go to a corner since it’s 90 degrees there.” -CoolFunnyQuotes.com Introduction IB Mathematics Analysis and Approaches been a wild ride. MAAH made me question my life decisions multiple times. Maths suddenly became so hard because it is definitely way …
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Introduction What is a function? Function is the relationship between two different sets of elements/variables (for example: x and y) Types of Relation (domain – input, range – output) One-to-one: when one domain corresponds to one range One-to-many: when one domain corresponds to more than one range Many-to-one: when more than one domain corresponds to …
During our iGCSE years, our Maths teacher have probably drawn this diagram when we were studying numbers. We have learned that irrational numbers are numbers like π. But, there is actually more to it. Beyond real numbers, there are imaginary numbers. This is what the diagram would look like. Both real numbers and imaginary numbers …
“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” Lloyd Alexander An inquirer is someone who inquires, or in other words, they ask for information. Being an inquirer is one of the ten IB learner profile. As an inquirer, we learn …
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