1/3 x h x (1y1+4y2+1y3) = area under the curve!

Good old Simpsons rule there!
Making it work however isn't so easy, in fact the answers I have been getting are not very accurate.
Anyway, back to the "real world". Sorry for not updating in a while, it seems my life has become just as boring as the maths I am learning. I know this because I am beginning to find the maths interesting which I think is a sure sign (or was it sine?)!
We have been doing 6 hours of maths Mon- Fri for two weeks now, Although we are now learning stuff which is new to us (wasn't in the GCSE syllabus) I still think it all looks the same. Its all Greek to me. Which incidentally so is our teacher. so She says "Its all Chinese to me" which I don’t think quite has the same ring to it. She is teaching us a word of Greek per day to "keep our interest". Personally I think if she was to juggle fire whilst riding a unicycle around the room we would still find the maths dull, but only two more weeks to go then its on to other subjects. I think Maths teaching is a good job, once you have learnt it you don't have to go on courses and refresher thingies because its always going to be the same, unless Pythagoras changes his mind or Casio invent a calculator so wonderful it can create new maths.
I have just read this back and it really is a load of drivel so I shouldn’t write any more until I am talking a bit of sense.

Ciao, R

Back in the Sash

Finally returned to sunny Warsash. I have really missed this place. Enjoying it already. Plenty of stories to swap about sea time etc. It seems I have been very very lucky to be with Chevron. No-body has had quite as good a trip as myself, although they all sound interesting. I am only writing a short amount as I am tired and quite lashed (thats modern talk for drunk!) Only to say we had our first lesson of what is to be 5 weeks of maths today. The teacher started by writing "2+3=" on the board. It got a little harder after that when we had to write something after the "=" sign. But that really was as taxing as the lesson got. Needless to say I am glad to be catching up on my otherwise very rusty maths. We are assured we will learn spherical trig and other exciting things during our Maths tuition. Cant wait!

Ciao!
R