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There is a meeting next Tuesday to be held by the NSW/ACT Independent Education Union at 4.30pm-5.30pm at the IEU Head Office at 176-182 Day St, Sydney. Members of the Board of Studies Mathematics Curriculum Committee will be present to receive a submission from the IEU which will be based on...

The IMO for 2008 was held in Madrid, Spain, July 16-17. Question paper: http://www.angelfire.com/ab7/fourunit/imo2008.pdf Website: http://www.imo-2008.es The Australian team is Paul Cheung, Sydney Technical High School, NSW Andrew Elvey Price, Brunswick Secondary College, Vic Giles Gardam...

For 4 unit, you can obtain a copy of <a href="http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/pdf_doc/maths4u_syl.pdf">the syllabus</a> to see if you have covered the requirements of Component A. You can use <a href="http://users.tpg.com.au/nanahcub/texts.pdf">textbooks</a> to assist you in...

I don't think they will use negative marking. It is proposed that there is to be 2 courses for General Maths, called General 1 and General 2.

Sample HSC questions: http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/pdf_doc/maths-sample-hsc-draft-st6.pdf

New draft syllabus documents: General: http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/pdf_doc/mathematics-general-1-stg6-draft.pdf http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/pdf_doc/mathematics-general-2-stg6-draft.pdf...

Other AMC papers with solutions for 1978-2007 are available from http://www.amtt.com.au

It shouldn't have the 0.5 5x32=160 Thanks for the correction. But the correct answer is still C.

Pederson, D.G. & Sommariva, H.M. (eds), AMC Solutions & Statistics 2002, AMT Publishing, 2002, pp. 42-46. And just so it's fair for others on this thread, I've also attached questions 21-30 here:

Official solutions attached.

Terry Tao has just won the $500,000 Waterman Award. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/nsf-ntb040908.php

The Deluxe Edition of the DVD of Hard Problems is now available at https://www.maa.org/ecomtpro/timssnet/books/VIDEO.cfm The full movie is 82 minutes. This edition also includes a pdf of USA and IMO Olympiads + solutions - a well as a shorter classroom version (45 minutes), and 52 minutes of...

Over the last 10 or so years, university maths departments have been decimated in Australia. Now USQ has decided to decimate it's maths department, so Terry Tao has started a petition at http://terrytao.wordpress.com/about/petition-to-support-maths-statistics-and-computing-at-usq/ I signed it...

There will be another opportunity for feedback in 2 forums on the draft syllabus for maths: http://community.boredofstudies.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=16325&d=1207038250 Syllabus development for all subjects are done in accordance with the document...

This document is the draft writing brief for the new calculus courses to be implemented in 2010 and first externally examined in 2011. It has been updated to the new writing brief at http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_hsc/pdf_doc/maths-stg6-writbrief-advext.pdf We are now in Phase...

I really appreciate me121's posts on this issue. I think we are of the same heart and mind on this issue. The view that all solutions should be online is probably a majority view. About 99% of students and teachers expressing a view on the issue have supported that one. So if I were a...

In the HSC you won't have access to solutions - otherwise you'll be accused of cheating and get 0. You have to get used to doing papers without access to solutions. So practicing past papers under exam conditions includes not having access to solutions. 7 years ago when I started the websites...

a⁴+b⁴+c⁴+d⁴=(a+b+c+d)⁴ has infinitely many nontrivial integer solutions. The proof of this was published this month and utilises Mazur's theorem that an elliptic curve has at most 16 rational torsion points. (Note this was also used by...