Guest bennyb Posted August 31, 2007 Report Share Posted August 31, 2007 I dont know about anyone else, but are the maths textbooks you use way harder than what you get tested on? Our school gives us one by a guy called Fabio and its so much harder than any IB past paper ive done. I suppose thats good but what are other books like? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afterglow Posted September 1, 2007 Report Share Posted September 1, 2007 I dont know about anyone else, but are the maths textbooks you use way harder than what you get tested on? Our school gives us one by a guy called Fabio and its so much harder than any IB past paper ive done. I suppose thats good but what are other books like?We use Haese and Harris publication. They do follow the IB syllabus but they are set up in a different way and also the questions used are very different from the ib exams which makes it a bit tricky. However, it has a lot of good examples and it teaches well and sort of make you have to understand the whole math concept in order to do well on the exams which is a good thing. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIO-AQUA Posted September 1, 2007 Report Share Posted September 1, 2007 I dont know about anyone else, but are the maths textbooks you use way harder than what you get tested on? Our school gives us one by a guy called Fabio and its so much harder than any IB past paper ive done. I suppose thats good but what are other books like? Really?! We use the same book (the one with the 1000 pages, right? ), and it's much easier compared to the real exams. I mean the questions that we get are much harder compared to the book's. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
beli16 Posted September 1, 2007 Report Share Posted September 1, 2007 do u think i should order the ibid book if i just have h+h one...cuz the problems on the h+h book look awfully easy... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fathead Posted September 2, 2007 Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 Don't rely on the textbooks. Do past papers. They always help... might more of a good reflection on what the questions will be like. P2 Questions especially. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bennyb Posted September 3, 2007 Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 the school also gives us H& H which seems to be a lot more straightforward, but seriously the IBID is way harder than anything we've been examined on or ive seen in any past papers and ive got every past paper goin back 5 years or somethin Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Survivor Rob Posted September 3, 2007 Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 My school uses the Haese and Harris books.The HL textbook is a bit confusing in places, and we don't really use it.But I have done some exercises from it and it is useful if you really can't understand something! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ChantS Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 IBID books are pretty good. I'm doing Math HL and its well explained and the exercises are first easy, then Ib-level. My teacher loves that book. Bad thing, in Math HL, the book is printed on black and red and its annoying if you're reading. Other than that, it's worth it do u think i should order the ibid book if i just have h+h one...cuz the problems on the h+h book look awfully easy... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abu Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 We use the Haese and Harris, but nowadays we're also using the Mathematics SL For the IB Dip, by Smedley and Wiseman printed by Oxford, for Maths HL classes. I like this book better. We're also going to use the IBID book too for HL. Our teacher thinks variety is good Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyoran Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 (edited) We're only using H&H, although i personally think its a bad book to practice with.Do you think just studying past papers will be fine? Edited September 18, 2007 by kyoran Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afterglow Posted September 18, 2007 Report Share Posted September 18, 2007 We're only using H&H, although i personally think its a bad book to practice with.Do you think just studying past papers will be fine? Just studying past papers - no. I think you need to actually learn how and why you things the way you're suppose to do ie why there is a textbook. Just studying past papers will only make you learn how to deal with the test questions but they will be different on the exams. Use both Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luami Posted September 20, 2007 Report Share Posted September 20, 2007 Just studying past papers - no. I think you need to actually learn how and why you things the way you're suppose to do ie why there is a textbook. Just studying past papers will only make you learn how to deal with the test questions but they will be different on the exams. Use both I agree completely since you need to learn the material/concepts and be able to apply them to different situations. For me, the papers tell me how to answer their questions Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest loerindir Posted September 22, 2007 Report Share Posted September 22, 2007 Revision books are pretty good...(oxford, etc.) They dont go into too much detial and its like a summary Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lil Posted October 22, 2007 Report Share Posted October 22, 2007 Mathematical Studies Standard Level, Fabio Cirrito. It's ok book but I am not sure if the examples are harder than any IB past paper? I think it's almost the same.. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 My school just uses Math Power 12 and Mickelson. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soy Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 We use Haese and Harris publication. They do follow the IB syllabus but they are set up in a different way and also the questions used are very different from the ib exams which makes it a bit tricky. However, it has a lot of good examples and it teaches well and sort of make you have to understand the whole math concept in order to do well on the exams which is a good thing.We use the same book. And i strongly dislike how misleading some of the material is. And to make things worse having a teacher that dropped out of high school algebra, doesn't help much either. However i do like that they have a book of worked out problems, we refer to it in class, it really helps you learn from your mistakes. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest apoch Posted October 23, 2007 Report Share Posted October 23, 2007 We Math SL don't even have textbook material for reference! On top of that, the teacher is lousy at giving notes, and expects us all to know the content! But he is a rather nice guy though... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffaholic Posted October 28, 2007 Report Share Posted October 28, 2007 For calculus we were currently using a book called "Caclulus: A first Course" from "The McGraw Hill Ryerson Mathematics Program". Apparently it was the original gr.13 (OAC) math textbook, for all of you who live in Ontario, Canada you know what I'm talking about when I say OAC. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeroom Posted December 16, 2007 Report Share Posted December 16, 2007 We're using a book by Peter Smythe ... Ib for HL and SL math (it comes from Australia). Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forester Posted December 29, 2007 Report Share Posted December 29, 2007 My school uses the Haese and Harris as well, but it's so darn simple...I used the ibid book and think its the same level as the p2 questions... Some advice: DO the exercises, maths HL is all about practice and more practice. (If only I would listen to my own advice...) Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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