Saturday, March 8, 2025

NCEA 2024 Calculus, Differentiation, How I'd Answer

 Pretty meh exam this one. Nothing too shocking or easy or hard. 

Not a lot of rates of change or parametric stuff this year. 

Again I've tried to limit myself to what a Casio calculator can do, and to techniques taught at year 13. As is the case with most things in calculus, there's often many ways to get the right answer




































Thursday, March 6, 2025

2024 NCEA Calculus, Complex Numbers How I'd Answer

 As always I limited myself to a trusty Casio calculator and used only techniques taught at year 13. 


Some of these questions could have been answered differently using more advanced techniques. 


I'm not a big fan of complex number analysis, I don't use them in my professional life as a mathematician. 


































Wednesday, March 5, 2025

2024 NCEA Calculus Integration

 How I'd answer. 

This was a really long part (14 pages) for something supposed to take 60 minutes. Some of the question were quite tasty, so you'd be in trouble if you chose the wrong option when answering. 

As always I've used a trusty Casio calculator and limited myself to methods taught at year 13, so no use of integration by parts etc