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Just out of curiousity.. what textbooks are you guys using at your school?

I'm using Maths in Focus by Margaret Grove - Prelim

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us extention 1 students use maths in focus (+i use fitz as an extra)
2unit students use that jones and couchman book
 

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this has been done b4...
anyway my text is maths in focus book 2 :chainsaw:
u shouldv seen the other thread
someone said margret grove shouldve taken up some other profession like prostitution or something
ROFL...ie. maths in focus sux!
 

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my school uses the ancient coroneous one...it was published in the 70's....
 

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I use only the Cambridge 3 unit book, its very gud but sum of the questions are relly hard like sum are for 4unit ppl
 

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Not hardest perhaps, but one with a great variety of q's which frequently go out of the scope of the syllabus.

I don't really "use" one particular textbook, but "use" a variety of notes from various places including my teacher and myself.
 

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I used jones and couchman...its pretty good but there are some stuff that is just not enough so i use other textbooks such as excel and maths in focus and studymate. I think theyre all pretty good...even the maths in focus!!
 

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I use coroneous. I find it really hard to understand, but the questions are pretty good.
 

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coroneous questions arent all that hard...i find cambridge have much harder...the notes and worked examples befroe each exercise are really good tho...
 

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my class uses maths in focus
as for myself, I don't use a textbook :p
i dont do any 2 unit work :eek:
 
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at school we mostly use jones and couchmann but for some topics such as exponentials and logs, geo app of calculus and locus chapters, we use maths in focus instead. as an extra, i use fitzy and phoenix if i have time.
 

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Oh Maragaret

Unfortunately our school uses Maths in Focus too..I say unfortunately because Margaret often doesn't supply adequate variety in her exercises, and we have the old, non-revised edition, so there are numerous mistakes throughout :chainsaw:
 

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**freakstar87** said:
at school we mostly use jones and couchmann but for some topics such as exponentials and logs, geo app of calculus and locus chapters, we use maths in focus instead. as an extra, i use fitzy and phoenix if i have time.
Same here. Some aspects of the Jones and Couchmann are rather dodgy and they don't give extended answers at the back (e.g. graphs, explanations etc). So we resort to other textbooks such as Fitzpatrick, Maths in Focus and Coroneous. I wouldn't call it good when it comes to explaining concepts, but its good because of its exercises which vary widely in difficulty. It's useful for practice in my opinion.
 

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