The best maths book for 2unit+3unit [poll] (1 Viewer)

[M@ster P]

If you're going to use Maths In Focus, you might as well use your Year 10 Signpost.

Maths in Focus is good for basics, then you move onto harder books and past papers.

If you purely rely on Maths in Focus, then you are in trouble

 

[electrolysis]

If you're going to use Maths In Focus, you might as well use your Year 10 Signpost.

lol

but true.

 

[scardizzle]

what our teacher generally does is he gets us to do a couple of questions from maths in focus and then gives us all these hard examples on the board. There's nothing extremely bad about maths in focus, although some of Margaret's solutions are obviously incorrect its just very basic and you need more resources.

On a side note our teacher actually met the woman who wrote it

 

[cutemouse]

On a side note our teacher actually met the woman who wrote it

NOVICE!!! YUUU BAKER!!! ... BTW, most of his notes are based from Coroneos.

 

[isabelle101]

Maths in Focus is probably okay to start with (in like yr 11...)
But don't stick with it for too long otherwise when you start doing trial papers and past hsc papers they're guna seem so frikin hard!!

As to which is the best txtbook...really hard to choose
I reckon it's best to use a combination of all 3 (fitzpatrick, cambridge and coroneus) so you get to see a variety of different styles of questions and problems.

Personally, coroneus just puts me off maths (can't they jazz it up a bit more?!?) it must be world's most boring maths book...

 

[Gussy Booo]

Haha! I've got my self Maths in Focus and Fitzy for 3un.

They complement well.
Maths in Focus is actually o-k for 2 unit. But Ex1, you really need something more.

 

[cutemouse]

coroneus

Learn how to spell it :mad1:

(can't they jazz it up a bit more?!?)

Well the original author is dead.

 

[ninetypercent]

Jones and Couchman, as that is the only textbook I actually use. I tend to study with past papers rather than textbook

 

[daryl-d]

dont like fitzpatrick, never used corones, i though cambridge is challenging

i never really used the text book that much- past papers cover the course pretty well

 

[Aquawhite]

Jones and Couchman, as that is the only textbook I actually use. I tend to study with past papers rather than textbook

same ^_^ +1

dont like fitzpatrick, never used corones, i though cambridge is challenging

i never really used the text book that much- past papers cover the course pretty well

I don't like Fitzpatrick either... maybe because my school only has the older versions.

 

[pman]

using coroneus as a supplementry

 

[h3ll h0und]

cambridge ftw....best combo for me = cambridge + fitzy =D

 

[Timothy.Siu]

our school uses fitz for 2+3 unit, so i'm a bit biased lol
imo cambridge is too fat.

 

[daryl-d]

Jones and Couchman, as that is the only textbook I actually use. I tend to study with past papers rather than textbook

i orginally used jones and couchman along with maths in focus

 

[micuzzo]

i used maths in focus and i turned out alright

i think maths in focus is great for 2U... along with papers that is... for 3U.. well it could be better... but in saying that it explains some things better than Fitz...

Fitz is ok though... but its explaination for alot of things is wayy over the top and simply convoluted.

I look at coroneous once... the ugliest thing ive ever seen...made me want to cry!

 

[scardizzle]

our school uses fitz for 2+3 unit, so i'm a bit biased lol
imo cambridge is too fat.

Agreed

The font makes it worse, the letters are so thin which makes it annoying to read

I reckon if they made it a thicker font and popped in a couple of pictures here and there it would be better

 

[Gussy Booo]

i think maths in focus is great for 2U... along with papers that is... for 3U.. well it could be better... but in saying that it explains some things better than Fitz...

Fitz is ok though... but its explaination for alot of things is wayy over the top and simply convoluted.

I look at coroneous once... the ugliest thing ive ever seen...made me want to cry!

Hahahahahah! THE ugliest thing you have ever seen? Dayyyumm.

 

[pOtentiaLeaver]

none of the books in the poll are worth reading imo and their questions suck

 

[ninetypercent]

maths in focus is like baby maths.
Cambridge: hard and I like the exam style questions but why doesn't the Year 11 book cover everything? It's a heavy textbook and the exercises are sooooo long too.
Fitzpatrick: good, but the exercises are also horribly long
Coroneos: dunno anything about this one
Jones and Couchman: good textbook to provide practice/understanding of a topic.

I have Fitz, Jones and Couchman and Cambridge, but I hardly use Fitzpatrick and Cambridge. Something about them puts me off the books.

 

[ikarusdanoz]

avoid maths in focus at all costs, cambridge is probably the best overall...and couchman for theory