Leaving Cert. Higher Level maths - revision & study website

Welcome to our revision and study website for higher-level maths students of the Irish Leaving Cert. On this site you’ll find a large (well over 80!) selection of java applets (web based programs) specifically constructed to explain and to demonstrate mathematical concepts for Leaving Cert. Students, all of which have been produced by first year students of computer science in Trinity College Dublin. The programs on this website were constructed solely by members of first year Computer Science, so the emphasis though-out has been on helping students by providing some very new ways of explaining some very old maths! We really do feel that our applets have brought some fresh approaches to illustrating the concepts behind the maths, and that there are certain things computer programs - with their capacity for animation and their powerful graphical capabilities - can show and explain that just aren’t feasible with traditional tools like a normal blackboard. As recent leaving cert students ourselves, we know the maths course, and the areas that students today will have difficultly with, yet as computer science students, we are in a unique position to appreciate how computers can be used to their best effect to help explain some of the tougher areas of the Leaving Cert. maths syllabus to students in a way that students will understand and intuitively feel comfortable with. The programs on this site cover the length and breath of the leaving cert course, from basic algebra topics to integration. We also have applets dealing with the most popular Leaving Cert. option, Further Calculus and Series. This website is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to the maths course - rather we like to think it provides very focused and useful information, and even examples, to aid study of tougher concepts. Hopefully even enough information (of the correct sort) to finally make some concepts – the ones with which we all struggle for a while – click home.