Friday 29 August 2008

AS Level Update

I've finished Stats! Yay!

To be honest i've not enjoyed it all that much: too much punching numbers into a calculator for my liking. Why bother with the regression line equation at all when you can just press a button? I have found that this means the textbooks spend less time explaining the equations and their derivations, because they just want you to know it exists. The understanding - that elusive beast which is supposed to underpin school mathematics these days - is left to one side so you can get on with manipulating numbers.

I'm afraid there is no chance of any Stats posts for a while, as I intend to carry on with C1 stuff! But give me a few weeks and I might.

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