Question b) Trying to solve for the partial derivative for theta with respect to r is giving me an aneurism, someone please help. Have exam in 3 hours

🚨 Stuck on a 2026 Singapore Olympiad problem type...
I noticed the 2026 Round 1 papers are heavily featuring some really wild absolute value inequalities and sector geometric logic. Does anyone have the official 2026 Singapore Maths Challenge questions or the leaked student review sheets?

I need to look at the phrasing of the 31-question papers to see where my calculations went wrong. Let's start a thread to crack them! 🧠

Looking for mostly Grade 8 and 9

I’m 20 and was taken out of traditional schooling in 6th grade for medical reasons. I’m currently rebuilding my academics, especially math, through an intensive remedial course during my gap year. After that, I plan to start community college and eventually apply to transfer to a strong university.
I’m planning to take the SAT in about two years, and my goal is 1500+. I know that’s ambitious given my starting point, but I’m committed to putting in the work.
How would you recommend preparing over that time? Should I focus entirely on my foundations for now, or introduce SAT-specific practice along the way? I’d especially love to hear from anyone who started with significant math gaps and eventually scored well. What helped you most?

We got this assignment and it's due in 20 minutes, but none of us can seem to solve it. Even just the process or steps to solve it is ok. I just need some backbone.

Uhh I tried doing it in the corner but I guess I suck at imagining diagrams. If anyone could help me visualize it better or just explain what they do that would be amazing, thanks!

So, I’m taking a CAD class, and doing great in it so far. But I have to take a midterm, and while reviewing, I remember the very first lab I ever did. It was the only one I struggled SEVERELY with, and it’s not because of the CAD portion, but the geometry. I haven’t done geometry since I was a 9th grader, and CAD only accepts angles that are on the positive x-axis. How to solve these? I tried looking everywhere, and I just can’t figure it out. Like angle HG on positive x? Angle GF? Angle FE?

im really stuck on section two ik it’s pretty basic stuff but word problems mess my brain up. im trying to write the equation in that form but idk how

I'm trying to work out the measurement marked in red, to see if my monitor will fit this desk.

I played silly buggers during trigonometry and now I'm paying for it 🫠

Im in my last year in the netherlands of VWO 6 and am really struggling with mathematics. Last year i barely passee with a 4,5 and im really scared i will fail because i find it very difficult. Its not possible to repeat so i really need help on how to quickly improve between now and 6 weeks

Not a homework question, but hopefully useful here. I'm a math teacher and made a free tool for studying from a graded test before a retake or final.

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Mods, happy to take this down if it doesn't fit.

For context I'm In highschool right now and have a test in 2 weeks. I get pretty stressed whenever tests come up especially since last year I barley passed.

I am relatively OK at algebra, I dont struggle but I'm not outstanding. Geometry though is a different story.

I've always been pretty bad at geometry. Every since the 8th grade I've struggled.

Remembering all of these rules and sentences about each shape Isn't the easiest.

I'm starting to think of having to get a private teacher/tutor (whichever you call it) because I notice a lot of the times when I am in the lesson and the teacher explains it I understand what's going on to an extent, but when I get home and try to do the homework I don't even know where to start.

If you could suggest anything I should be doing right now while I have the time to, I would appreciate it.

Working through some questions and this one confused me:

(5.9 x 10^-2) - (0.0078 x 10^3) = -7.741 x 10^1

I’m so confused as to how they got that answer. I was also taught that we should make the powers the same and that the coefficient should be between 1-9/10 but it’s negative?

I got as far as

(5.9 x 10^-2) - (0.0078 x 10^3) =
(0.000059 x 10^3) - (0.0078 x 10^3)
(-0.007741 x 10^3)

As I’m writing this I think I figured it out. (-0.007741 x 10^3) has been moved 3 places to the right taking it out of scientific notation? But it’s still a negative? Is that ok?

unfortunately the course i'm doing has no explanations for solutions in the quiz section, only tells me what i'm doing is wrong and this particular type of problem isn't well explained before. i'm probably adding the exponents together incorrectly, especially in the (y²(z²-1)² ...)² section i feel unsure.

can someone solve this and explain how to do it correctly? thank you.

(ignore that the question is in german, i hope it's otherwise self-explanatory)