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No. It wasn't. It was archived and is still available on the Board's website at http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/archives/syllabus_hsc/mathematics-advanced.html

Bill Pender has told the Board of Studies to reject the national curriculum. They responded by saying "The Board advises all schools to continue to use the existing NSW K–12 syllabuses for 2011."...

Here are some submissions for the K-10. They are from the IEU, Bill Pender, MANSW and MAV.

Recommended Readings for New Topics: Balakrishnan, V.K., Graph Theory, McGraw-Hill, 1997 Bronson, R., Differential Equations, McGraw-Hill, 1973 Bronson, R., Matrix Operations, McGraw-Hill, 1989 Lipschutz, S., Linear Algebra, McGraw-Hill, 1968 Spiegel, M.R., Statistics, McGraw-Hill, 1961...

Did you hear Verity Firth on 2GB today defending the national curriculum? I made an mp3 of her at http://4unitmaths.com/acara14.5.2010.mp3 saying "We're committed to a national curriculum. But we're not committed to a process that waters down the high standards we have in New South Wales. But...

The 11-12 curriculum has finally been released. I've attached the pdf below.

In light of the delay of the release of the 11-12 national curriculum, the consultation period for the K-10 national curriculum has been extended by 1 week, till May 30. I very much welcome this new development. It is essential that an overlap exists for the consultation periods for the K-10...

I would concur with Trebla on the issue of matrices, vectors and linear algebra, as I also mentioned in my submission. There was quite a lot of it in the old Level 1 course (precursor to 4 unit maths) when it was a 2 year course. I think we can make Mathematics Extension 2 a 2-year course...

I said we could replace it with Number Theory, which would be much more interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_theory

We wouldn't want it to be replaced by something inferior. As for suggested improvements to the current syllabuses, I wrote a submission on it at http://users.tpg.com.au/nanahcub/submission.pdf

It has come to my attention that there is yet another delay on the release of the senior national curriculum. It was supposed to be released in April. Then on May 3. Now they say mid-May.

We were told at the meeting today at Burwood Girls High School Library that the ACARA 11-12 maths curriculum will be released next Monday.

NSW mathematicians are now complaining about the new national mathematics curriculum. There are many errors in the document arising from a lack of understanding of basic mathematics. If it is implemented, NSW students will pay the price for the decline in standards in some other states. If we...

Re: General Mathematics Resource Directory The HSC exam committee is releasing their solutions on the internet for the first time this year onto the Board of Studies website. Previously very few people have had access to these documents which were never published before. I think most people...

To solve a general quartic which can't be solved by other means such as the factor theorem, one needs to solve a resolvent cubic first.

You guys are describing using the factor theorem, which is OK if the roots are rational and coefficients are integers. BUT if they are not rational it might be harder. In this case, you could use the quartic formula: or use Wolfram|Alpha

If you want to have a say on the National Curriculum for maths, you can go to Burwood Girls High School Library on Saturday, May 1, 2010, 9:30am. There will be a public meeting to discuss a submission to ACARA.

The last episode of season 6 was aired on March 12, 2010 on CBS, but it is rumoured that this will be the last season of Numb3rs.

Re: Ext 2 Past Papers + Answers SCEGGS 2009 is at http://4unitmaths.com/sceggsd2009.pdf

Just test divisors of the constant term. If one works, say a, then by the Factor Theorem, s-a is a factor. If none work, use a formula. In your example, -1 and -2 will work, so s+1 and s+2 are factors.