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Mathematics subject report · May 2012

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May 2012 extended essay reports Page 1 MATHEMATICS Overall grade boundaries Grade: E D C B A Mark range: 0 - 7 8 - 15 16 - 22 23 - 28 29 - 36 The range and suitability of the work submitted There is still room for much improvement in this domain. The main types of inappropriate subjects are: 1) Subjects not lending themselves to mathematical treatment and therefore having only trivial and negligible mathematical content. ( e.g. mathematics and sports, mathematics and music, mathematics and architecture, mathematics and beauty). 2) Subjects lending themselves (within the framework of an extended essay) to only minimal mathematical treatment, mostly enumeration and trivial arithmetical calculations (e.g. mathematics and blackjack, the Golden Proportion). 3) Statistical subjects which for the most part consist of an ill conceived survey followed by an elementary (and often inappropriate) statistical treatment, again with no real mathematical content. 4) Subjects too difficult for secondary school students (e.g. Fractals, Non Euclidean geometries, Game theory). Occasionally an exceptionally brilliant student may succeed with these subjects but it is quite rare. 5) Subjects in the history of mathematics, which could be quite adequate, are too often treated as a biography of mathematicians full of anecdotes and devoid of mathematical activity and understanding. It must be
File information
Subject
Mathematics
Document type
Subject report
Year
2012
Session
May 2012
Level
Not labelled in the archive
Paper
Not labelled
Examination zone
Not labelled in the archive
Language
English
File size
70 KB
Pages
3
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