Much progress!

Well this week has been eventful! On Friday I finished my Mathletics course, I've been very close to doing that for ages, but it's been a year since I started it and it was definitely time to just do it. I have 100% on all 187 tasks now! That was at about 3pm, and just as I did that, my Unit 2 Advanced Higher book arrived. I thought I'd already done enough maths for the day so I waited until the next day, Saturday, to start it. I've now done four exercises (not bad for 3 days' work), but I'm not doing anything else right now as I will be on holiday until Friday. I will then work as hard as I can to finish off the first chapter, though it's a very difficult one, covering mathematical proof, which I don't really have any prior knowledge of. And my exam results are a week tomorrow, where is this time off going! I'm still going to try and finish the next chapter, Further Differentiation, before school starts in August, it will be quite tight in 2 weeks but I can get through it pretty fast.

One third of the way there

Well I have now made progress: I have finished the whole of unit 1 of Advanced Higher! One third of the way through my last school qualification, already. It doesn't feel like that long since I finished unit 1 of Int 2! I was reviewing my knowledge of Gaussian elimination today - it's basically a very sophisticated method for solving simultaneous equations. It can be time consuming and fiddly, but it's not that difficult, although it's pretty easy to make a very silly arithmetic mistake. I'd like to eliminate these mistakes, well, it's an excuse to play Mathletics during the holidays!

I will be revising the first unit of Advanced Higher Maths this week, and then I will try some of the resources on the UKMT website, as they are meant to be good preparation for the university entrance exams. I may possibly start unit 2 soon, it's tempting but I need to leave something to do when I start school in August, in 5 weeks.