Re: FHSST-Maths: officially dumbed down...

[Mark Horner]

Hey Sam

nice big edit - I updated the FHSST Maths book on the website - 198 
pages - almost at 200! Only 177 behind Physics ;) Come on Maths teams 
you can do it :)

Ok - on a more serious note - a little worried about the use of the word 
infinity so early on. I think we should explain that concept carefully - 
but thats the right place to do it.

If we going to have some solid basics in, where does the precedence of 
operators (is that programming jargon - should it be operations) fit in? 
Just the line where you have a+b/c - they should know that they do the 
division first but if we want to be clear and correct we might want to 
say something, though I defer that decision to the maths team.

I think the books should be relaxed but correct. The comment about 
mathematicians being lazy might raise some eyebrows but its fine by me 
:) after the talk I saw today by a theorist (mathematician in disguise) 
its undeniable.

Cheers,

Mark

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