Talk:Further Mathematics

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[edit] Clarification on Victoria, Australia

Removed the reference to VCE maths methods in the introduction, as it was misleading and not relevant to that section. The existing description of Further Mathematics in VCE was largely unreadable jargon, copy-pasted straight from the VCAA (Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority) handbook. It has now been removed, seeing as 1) It was a very large section, which overstated its importance, especially considering the length of the other sections, and 2) Most of it was a ridiculous volume of text with little useful information. The VCAA section has been replaced with a new paragraph that i wrote, which firstly points out the significant difference of VCE Further to UK and international Further, and briefly outlines the course for VCE further. For anyone who does still wish the read the official VCAA information, there is an external link at the bottom. Oh and if anyone is wondering, my information is based on the fact that i did further maths last year in year 11, and am doing methods this year.

[edit] NPOV

Not sure about this but I'm doing a futher maths A level (UK) and it includes an FP4 module- however I'm on the AQA syllabus. Is this why there is a discrepancy? And if so, should it not be corrected in the article? Also I have not heard anywhere else that F. maths is a 'passport' to oxbridge. Certainly more than a quarter of my fellow students (all predicted 'A's) have been turned down from studying maths there and all of them are very strong candidates (in terms of their personal statements, interviews, etc).

I have applied to do physics at uni and most universities strongly prefer F. Maths. It's not as rare a subject as the article makes out. And to be fair I only got one automatic offer from a university (and it was Warwick... certainly not my 'backup choice' by any means). This article could do with a glance from a lecturer at a college or university who has better knowledge of the subject itself and the weight it carries in the academic world.

You're right; the article makes it seem that doing Further Maths will make you a king. I have toned down the language and added source requests so people can prove their statements. FP4 does exist, yes. Skinnyweed 19:09, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] websites

Does anyone know of any good websites that i could try to learn further maths from. i would do it at school but my maths teacher does'nt seem to want to teach me it.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A-level_Mathematics Pluke 16:27, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

http://www.mathsnet.net/asa2/2004/index.html Claret 18:46, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

thanks for the websites. althought the first link seems to have incomplete sections the second links seems to have lots of information.