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Looking for Mathematics past papers from around 1920s onwards

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    Posted by: curlygirly 11/01/2011 at 10:28
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    weebecka:

    curlygirly:
    I have not breached the T and C
     

    Anyone else choking on this?

    I shall restrain myself from posting a few scores of choice examples on this thread.  Perhpas we'll keep that for another one.

    As you know curlygirly I had to have some of my posts removed after my identity was 'outed'. It changes the nature of what's sensitive and what isn't.

    No don't restrain yourself, you go on ahead and quote where I've breached T and C. I challenge you to do so.

    I'd love to know where I have.

    You had to have some of your posts removed after you named and were very derogatory about an HMI. You actually named her on several threads, as many posters who saw those threads will remember. Or have you conveniently forgotten that?

    Because the people who saw those threads haven't.

     

    I wonder what the HMI would make of that sort of behaviour. I certainsly wouldn't be very happy about it if it were me.

    You "outed yourself weebecka. You posted on here and gave people links to your linkdin page.

    Then someone on this forum ( not me because I really don't care enough) checked out your credentials and found that you were delivering a workshop on internet forums, after posting some pretty inflammatory and patronising stuff on opinion.

    They couldn't have found that stuff if you hadn't posted the linkdin info.

     

    You appear to have a pretty selective memory.

     
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    Posted by: curlygirly 11/01/2011 at 10:30
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    weebecka:
    Quite right, curlygirly, your answer to this quesion doesn't belong here (unless it's a brief answer).  Please just post a link to it in this thread. 

    Hilarious, given your complete lack of brevity (or relevance) in most of your posts.
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    Posted by: autismuk 11/01/2011 at 10:40
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    curlygirly:
    Indeed. I find posters who deliberately get peoples names wrong very irritating. They remind me of the children who call others names in the playground. They say it's only in fun but it's designed to put the perpetrator in a position of authority. It doesn't. It just makes them appear childish.
     

    You must agree with me, big nose !

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    Posted by: curlygirly 11/01/2011 at 10:40
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    By the way, I'm not sure of the relevance of the link you sent, but what I meant by " pop over to the opinion forum" was - go and watch and see how people speak to eachother over there. The debate is fairly robust. I've been called everything from a Nazi to a child abuser and Muslim hater.

    Pretty ridiculous and anyone who's actually met me in real life, or knows me would know why.

    I really do think that you need to toughen up a bit.
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    Posted by: autismuk 11/01/2011 at 10:43
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    weebecka:
    Whatever type of exam we do now there will be far more teaching to the test than there was years ago because we have custom text books and communication systems which share skills of how to teach to the test.   
     

    Err... no. We have teaching to the test because of the pressure of results on teachers. Teaching to the test doesn't generate skills etc., but it does work. The text books which give instructions on how to answer questions to generate the best mark (unheard of when I started) do so because of the teaching to the test.

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    Posted by: autismuk 11/01/2011 at 10:45
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    weebecka:
    But my presence here is far more dominant that is appropriate because I'm fending off the bizarre personal attacks which still keep coming from the people who are exempt from being sanctioned on this forum.  Why is that again curlygirly?
     

    You never consider that it might be you, do you ?

    Despite your naming and slagging off of HMI, for example, and your generally appallingly patronising behaviour, you have the bl**dy nerve to have a go at CG who has done precisely nothing (other than mildly ridicule you, much less than you deserve).

    Nobody is 'exempt from sanctions', not even the moderators. It's just that no-one reading any thread you are involved in is going to conclude that it's everyone else who's at fault.

     
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    Posted by: eddiegustus 11/01/2011 at 13:37
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    You may check the Oxford and Cambridge libraries for these papers or their Mathematics department may be willing to assist. You may also check the British library and contact the University of the West Indies, they may be able to assist you as well.

     

    Kind regards.

    W. A. Edwards. MA. Ed., PGDE, PGCE, B.Sc (CMS), Dip. (CS) 

     
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    Posted by: bolzanoweierstrass 11/01/2011 at 13:56
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    weebecka:

    Did you even do A-level maths?  When did you do it?

    Personally I did it in two terms, which was quite challenging.



    weebecka, I hope you will reflect on the nature of this, among many of your comments.  You are posting on a forum where such attempts at showing off will get you nowhere - who's going to be impressed?

    weebecka:
    Especially since we'd barely been taught anything at GCSE and had mainly just sat around playing cards and working on whatever we felt like. 

    But at least we can now see where you get the inspiration for some of your teaching ideas!

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    Posted by: Betamale 11/01/2011 at 18:23
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    weebecka:

    Please remind me - why is it you are on this thread curlygirly?  Did you even do A-level maths?  When did you do it?

    Personally I did it in two terms, which was quite challenging.  

    Is that two terms as we would know two terms or 2 terms as your CV would know them?

    There are a good couple of references here for old papers for those PC screens are not totally obscured by Beckas Ego

    http://www.burtongrammar.co.uk/?cat=114

     
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    Posted by: gpnnck2010 11/01/2011 at 20:52
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    Sabbir

    You may be interested inThe Value of Mathematics by Laura Kounine, John Marks and Elizabeth Truss, which makes a comparative study of public examinations mathematics papers between 1951 and 2006. It can be downloaded free as a PDF from http://www.reform.co.uk/documents/The%20value%20of%20mathematics.pdf.

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