{"id":41,"date":"2019-02-26T17:01:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/cgsmaths\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2019-02-26T17:01:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:01:28","slug":"what-the-pupils-say-maths","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/cgsmaths\/what-the-pupils-say-maths\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Pupils Say – Maths"},"content":{"rendered":"

NATIONAL 4<\/strong><\/h2>\n

1) Why did you pick this subject and how did you get advice and support?<\/p>\n

A: An important subject.<\/p>\n

2) What did you need to get in? (e.g. a Pass at Nat 4, a B in Nat 5, good grades in S3; good practical skills, ability to work well with others)?<\/p>\n

A: No.<\/p>\n

3) Will you do this subject next year?<\/p>\n

A: If staying in school.<\/p>\n

4) What kinds of topics do you cover?<\/p>\n

A: Circles, areas, piecharts, percentages, fractions.<\/p>\n

5) What kinds of learning activities have you done?<\/p>\n

A: Textbooks.<\/p>\n

6) What kinds of skills does this subject help you to develop?<\/p>\n

A: Accounting.<\/p>\n

7) What is the homework like?<\/p>\n

A: Pretty easy \u2013 not much.<\/p>\n

8) What kinds of tests or assessments do you have?<\/p>\n

A: Nabs.<\/p>\n

9) What kinds of careers could this subject lead to?<\/p>\n

A: Bank \/ Money.<\/p>\n

10) What would you say to someone who is thinking about picking this subject next year?<\/p>\n

A: Quite hard if not good at maths.<\/p>\n

NATIONAL 5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

1) Why did you pick this subject and how did you get advice and support?<\/p>\n

A: Important subject.<\/p>\n

2) What did you need to get in? (e.g. a Pass at Nat 4, a B in Nat 5, good grades in S3; good practical skills, ability to work well with others)?<\/p>\n

A: No.<\/p>\n

3) Will you do this subject next year?<\/p>\n

A: Yes \u2013 higher.<\/p>\n

4) What kinds of topics do you cover?<\/p>\n

A: Everything.<\/p>\n

5) What has been your favourite topic and why?<\/p>\n

A: Percentages.<\/p>\n

6) What kinds of learning activities have you done?<\/p>\n

A: Textbooks and teacher.<\/p>\n

7) What kinds of skills does this subject help you to develop?<\/p>\n

A: Practical.<\/p>\n

8) What is the homework like?<\/p>\n

A: Not much.<\/p>\n

9) What kinds of tests or assessments do you have?<\/p>\n

A: Not much \u2013 unit assessments.<\/p>\n

10) What kinds of careers could this subject lead to?<\/p>\n

A: Accountant.<\/p>\n

11) What would you say to someone who is thinking about picking this subject next year?<\/p>\n

A: If they want to go to university then take subject.<\/p>\n

HIGHER<\/strong><\/h2>\n

1) Why did you pick this subject and how did you get advice and support?<\/p>\n

A: Subject needed for university course.<\/p>\n

2) What did you need to get in? (e.g. a Pass at Nat 4, a B in Nat 5, good grades in S3; good practical skills, ability to work well with others)?<\/p>\n

A: At least C at Nat 5.<\/p>\n

3) Will you do this subject next year?<\/p>\n

A: No as no advanced higher.<\/p>\n

4) What kinds of topics do you cover?<\/p>\n

A: Differentiation, vectors, trigonometry.<\/p>\n

5) What has been your favourite topic and why?<\/p>\n

A: Wave equations and vectors as quite easy to understand.<\/p>\n

6) What kinds of learning activities have you done?<\/p>\n

A: Textbooks.<\/p>\n

7) What kinds of skills does this subject help you to develop?<\/p>\n

A: Maths skills, problem solving.<\/p>\n

8) What is the homework like?<\/p>\n

A: No marked homework \u2013 finishing off class work.<\/p>\n

9) What kinds of tests or assessments do you have?<\/p>\n

A: Unit assessments \u2013 sometimes class tests.<\/p>\n

10) What kinds of careers could this subject lead to?<\/p>\n

A: Engineering, architect, accountancy, business, maths and building rockets.<\/p>\n

11) What would you say to someone who is thinking about picking this subject next year?<\/p>\n

A: Be prepared, good grade at N5.\u00a0 Have a bash at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NATIONAL 4 1) Why did you pick this subject and how did you get advice and support? A: An important subject. 2) What did you need to get in? (e.g. a Pass at Nat 4, a B in Nat 5, good grades in S3; good practical skills, ability to work well with others)? A: No. … Continue reading What the Pupils Say – Maths<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2574,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/cgsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/cgsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/cgsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/cgsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/cgsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/cgsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/cgsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/cgsmaths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}