Today is dedicated to the maths GCSE
Maths GCSE on Monday Maths and it is the focus of mine and everyone else's revision. It's hard and none of it relevant to later life. 75% of the test is algebra. Now this is not a rant but why the hell do I need to or want to know about algebra or most other maths. When I go shopping I am not going to substitute a Mars bar for X and proceed to find how many parallel vertices's its got; I am not going to work out how many lines of rotational symmetry a box of terry's chocolate orange has got and I won't find the circumference of a Pineapple. It is crazy, in fact way beyond crazy.
Also I'm not particularly delighted by probability. Here is a question from a mock exam I tried earlier: Two dice are thrown. The first is a four-sided die numbered 1 to 4, the second a
six-sided die numbered 1 to 6.
Ali throws the dice and scores the product of the two dice. I DON'T CARE. LET ALI THROW DICE! Firstly I have never seen are four sided dice and then it tells me to complete a table with all the possible outcomes. I am not going to play snakes and ladders with a four sided dice and I am not going to work out all the different out comes with a normal dice.
My personal favorite question is: The total surface area of a right cone with base radius 2cm is 5πcm². Find the slant height of the cone. Now I don't think I am narrow minded but what on earth is this. Its worse than my Portuguese exam. Well I ever do this in life? Well this ever come in handy? Yet I am spending my time learning it.
Well onto my day and I spent my day going to Knaphill Cafe with Kelly and Scotty. The didn't give me my change but the food was nice so I thought oh well. Then it was to Knaphill tournament to watch a girls tournament. It was cold, wet and windy and my legs hurt. I get in and my dad blames me for losing his keys only to find them in his pocket. Then maths revision.
JD
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