Schools in the UK are looking at banning the use of calculators until students have mastered basic maths skills. Will it be back to the days of hot mental then?
Better Maths Without Calculators?
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Common Entrance Tests now Online
An independent school entrance examination is to be put online to make it less stressful for pupils, reports the BBC. The Common Entrance exam is taken by children applying to private secondary schools at age 11 and 13.
Now the Independent Association of Prep Schools (IAPS) says a series of online tests will ease stress, allowing pupils to sit the exam at their own school.
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Ratio and Proportion Example
A group of girls voted between going bowling or going ice skating. The result was 4:3 in favor of bowling. If 8 girls voted for bowling, how many voted for ice skating?
Answer: ratio of bowling to ice skating is 4: 3. Let us start with a share box where each rectangle represents one equal part.
| bowling | bowling | bowling | bowling | skating | skating | skating |
The total number of bowling parts is 4, therefore each part is worth 8/4 or 2 girls . Therefore as 3 parts voted for ice skating, the number of girls who voted for ice skating 3 x 2 or 6 girls.
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Parents and Maths
An interesting article on modern Maths methods and parents:
Long division and long multiplication have been replaced in schools by chunking and gridding. While the new methods are meant to make maths easier, parents have been left scratching their heads, writes Rob Eastaway.
Maths Revision - Rounding
Round 4.6734 to 2 decimal places.
Answer:
Two decimal places means two digits after the decimal point. To round to 2 decimal places, look at the third digit. It's 3 and as this is less than 5, the second digit 7 will stay unchanged.
Therefore 4.6734 to 2 decimal places is 4.67
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Six Year Old Girl Passes GCSE Maths
A six-year-old girl from Wolverhampton has been awarded a grade C in GCSE maths.
Esther Okade was entered for the exam by Ounsdale High School in Wombourne, Wolverhampton.
Homework Help - Multiplication
Here is a video on multiplying large numbers:
Multiplying Large Numbers using Traditional Methods from HS on Vimeo.
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Maths Revision - Percentages Example
What is 10% of 750?
Answer
To work out 10% of a number, just divide the number by 10
So 10 % of 750 is the same as
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Stem and Leaf Diagram Video Worked Example
We have just added a stem and leaf diagram video worked example to our GCSE /IGCSE Statistics Revision Course.
These are the marks of 15 pupils in a test:
4, 17, 15, 22, 8, 13, 28, 15, 12,20, 21, 7, 14, 25, 27 .
Draw a stem and leaf diagram from the marks.
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Online Videos for Maths Revision
Sometimes, it is better to see a concept explained in the form of an online maths video. This is why we have been steadily adding maths worked example videos. From adding of fractions to a quick overview of the mean, median and mode, we have a short video explaining it all. Subscribe to Primemaths for less than the price of a single one-to-one tuition and watch these videos again and again.
Subtraction of Fractions from HS on Vimeo.