Lesson 3 of our free online grinds which we are providing for Leaving Cert Ordinary level students!

This one is on Graphs and Functions, on Wed 23rd May at 8pm.  I am going to show you how to tackle some typical exam questions.  Remember you also need to understand this stuff when you do applications of differentiation questions.

You can join the class at the following link, from 7.50pm onwards if you want to check your connection, the class itself starts at 8pm:
Leaving Cert (O) Functions and Graphs Class

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We have started running some free online grinds coming up to the Leaving Cert exams.


The second one is on Differentiation, on Saturday 19th May at 8pm.  I am going to show you how to tackle some typical exam questions.

You can join the class at the following link, from 7.55pm onwards:
Leaving Cert (O) Differentiation Class

Feel free to share with your friends and classmates :-)

We are going run some free online grinds coming up to the Leaving Cert exams.  The first one is on Algebra, on Wed 16th April at 8pm.

You can join the class at the following link, from 7.55pm onwards:
Leaving Cert (O) Algebra Class


Places are limited, so if you want to guarantee your place, you need to go to our Facebook and put a comment there, first-come, first-served.


Once you have your name down, feel free to share with your friends :-)

Some of the books for LCO include a section on Combinations / Selections as well as Arrangements / Permutations.  

However, we work directly from the official syllabus and we can see clearly (at the top of page 17) that Combinations / Selections is NOT required for LCO (only for LC Higher).

Just to make sure, we contacted the NCCA who are responsible for the curriculum, and they confirmed our understanding as above.  You can read an extract from their email below if you wish.

So, in summary, there is no need to cover this Combinations / Selections material for LCO which is good news, as it is one less thing to study!  

Remember that you DO need to cover Arrangements / Permutations at LCO and LCH. 

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"The syllabus does not use the terms permutations / combinations. This was deliberate so that students would get a clearer understanding of what is involved (arranging / selecting respectively).

The syllabus is quite clear: OL students (and therefore also HL students) are expected to be able to count the arrangements of n distinct object (n!) and also the number of ways of arranging r objects from n distinct objects. 

In addition, HL students are expected to be able to count the number of ways of selecting r objects from n distinct objects.

Eamonn, the syllabus available at the link below:

http://www.ncca.ie/en/Curriculum_and_Assessment/Post-Primary_Education/Project_Maths/Syllabuses_and_Assessment/LC_Maths_for_examination_in_2012.pdf

is the definitive document on which the 2012 examination will be based."

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It's almost 2 months now since we went live, and I am only now getting time to give a quick update - I guess that is a good sign!

We have been delighted with the response, with lots of people using the system and some great feedback.

We were thrilled to be chosen by the Sunday Business Post as their Startup of the Day on 6th March 2012, you can read about it here:  http://tinyurl.com/SBPaward  

We have a nice Twitter and Facebook promotion running at the moment which is very popular - I'll give more details in the next post.

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