Announcement from BOSTES/NESA - 2019 Syllabus Changes for Calculus courses (1 Viewer)

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Media release for new draft syllabuses: https://www.nsw.gov.au/education-an...-mathematics-syllabuses-released-for-feedback

and from this we see "syllabuses will be released in 2024 and taught from 2026" which means the first HSC exams for the new syllabus will be 2027.

Here are the new draft syllabuses






So it all starts again. Maybe not. New textbooks? Maybe just new editions.

Looks like an exrecise in tweaking, not an overhaul like last time.

More documents available here: https://www.nsw.gov.au/education-and-training/nesa/news/syllabus-consultations

HSIE and English are also being updated.

Consultation closes Dec 19, 2023

EDIT: the above draft syllabus links are dead now.

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Have a close look at the bottom of page 18 in the extension 2

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Look familiar?

One thing you may have noticed in the 2023 ext 2 hsc Q15b was that the line segments joining midpoints intersected in the same point.
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Coincidence? Not likely! 😈
 
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At least they are bringing in notation for "and": and "or":

3D vectors in Extension 1 - so extension 1 textbooks will have to have a major update to their vectors chapters.

Much talk about skew lines in ext 2 - BUT still no cross product - hence one of the most basic questions about skew lines, minimum distance between skew lines, is conspicuously absent.

It makes it clear that projectile motion with quadratic drag is NOT in the new syllabus.
 
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is there a list of all the changes cuz it seems like only a handful for adv-4u? ill start:


Advanced:
- more detail on the extent of understanding expected of continuity and limits. not necessarily new content.
- 'Graphical transformations' e.g. dilations now moved from Year 12 to Year 11
- Differentiation of trigonometric functions and logarithms now moved from Year 12 to Year 11
- 'Discrete probability distributions' moves from Year 11 to Year 12 in one big topic along with continuous distributions called 'Random Variables'
- Use of cardinality notation for sets e.g. |A|
- Sequences and Series is no longer under 'Financial Mathematics' but is now called 'Recurrence, sequences and series'.
- On top of this, more recurrence relation notation is used. Sigma notation defined.
- more detailed section about the fundamental theorem of calculus and use of reimann sums.
- 'Descriptive Statistics and Bivariate Data Analysis' topic entirely removed.

Extension 1:
- 'further trig identities' moves to Year 12 in same topic area as year 12 trig equations
- pigeonhole principle is missing
- 3d vectors introduced but only in the same scope of depth as 2d vectors e.g. no parametric vector equations
- t-formulae moved to Extension 2
- products to sums moved to Extension 2
- Integration of sin^2 and cos^2 moved to Extension 2
- central limit theorem now explictly stated instead of just a normal approximation

Extension 2:
- explicit mention of squeeze theorem in proofs
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- explicit mention of Cauchy-schwarz inequality, median, and altitude of triangles in vectors.
- specifically said they cant combine pulleys and resisted motion??
 

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It is not really necessary to use equations of line segments, but in that format we may proceed thusly:











 
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They can’t get enough qualified maths teachers now let alone then if it became compulsory.
 

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The Daily Telegraph beat NESA in getting this info out.

So why did it take so long for NESA to respond? In 2019 the government made the announcement of compulsory maths - without consultation. And now the government scrapped it - again without consultation.

Constitutionally, the NSW minister of education is the ultimate arbiter of education decisions in NSW - but her powers are significantly constrained by the Education Act which basically says she acts on advice from NESA and their decisions are to be made via consultation.

The Macquarie Street politicians have to be the most unprofessional hicktown bogans on the planet!
 

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I also think that when an education minister makes decisions outside the constraints of the Education Act, this exposes the government to legal challenge. If compulsory hsc maths without consultation went ahead in 2026 any student forced to do maths who didn't want to could have grounds for commencing proceedings against the government - and the government would probably lose.

This may be another reason for the decision today.
 
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In the absence of any consultation whatsoever the Daily Telegraph took it upon themselves to run a poll and here were their results so far:

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Maybe the 20% who voted no are maths teachers and the other 80% who voted yes are everybody else who don't want to teach maths!

They need to run another poll asking of those who voted yes, do they themselves want to teach maths? Then you'd get 100% no!

For example the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute director disagreed with the decision, and said maths should be compulsory for all Year 12 students. So is he going to quit his job at the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute and go into a school and teach maths? No!
 
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How about a more substantive change though - rather than tinkering at the edges which seems on the whole what it seems to be?

Like making it more internationally competitive?

Matrices, determinants, cross product, scalar triple product for example!
 

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The criticism is not enough time.

So there is time for what? The other crap they do to make up the units? That's not what they want to do!

Reverse the decision in 1980 to make 4 unit a 1 year course! Go back to the 2 year course.

There are plenty of year 10 students quite capable of doing extension 2 in year 11.

Here are the contents sections of coroneos level 1 (the 2-year course version of extension 2)

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These came out in 1966. Dumbing down happened ever since.

How far behind does Australia need to get before we send ALL our kids overseas to get a proper education?
 
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The criticism is not enough time.

So there is time for what? The other crap they do to make up the units? That's not what they want to do!

Reverse the decision in 1980 to make 4 unit a 1 year course! Go back to the 2 year course.

There are plenty of year 10 students quite capable of doing extension 2 in year 11.

Here are the contents sections of coroneos level 1 (the 2-year course version of extension 2)

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These came out in 1966. Dumbing down happened ever since.

How far behind does Australia need to get before we send ALL our kids overseas to get a proper education?
I would love to see the Taylor Series being introduced because that will serve as the root to why we have Euler's identity in complex numbers. Currently, Euler's identity feels separate from the whole thing in the current syllabus.
 

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