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FRACTIONS, DECIMALS AND PERCENTAGES(See also the notes on recurring decimals, which can be a bit trickier.)We often use fractions, decimals and percentages interchangeably. We might s...

Stumbling across a well-thumbed copy of Angela Carter’s 1991 novel, Wise Children, in a secondhand bookshop, I was heartened – and a little saddened – to notice that I was not a...

RATIOSRatios are very similar to fractions. We will illustrate the approach using an example.ExampleAli, Ben and Colin are aged 10, 12 and 16 years. They share £96.90 in the rat...

FRACTIONSFractions are numbers of the sort a/b (a divided by b) where a and b are whole numbers and a is less than b.You need to be careful how you manipulate fractions. Adding and su...

Where did we come from? How did the universe begin? Are we alone in the universe? These are the questions that human beings have asked ever since they first looked up at the heaven...

I have sat in on auditions at one of the biggest drama schools in the world. It is joyful and exciting to watch the candidates come through and give you their best work.One recurring ...

Dance, as defined by the Oxford Dictionary, is "to move rhythmically to music, typically following a set sequence of steps". This means if I open and close my mouth, that is dance. If...

Classical Dance: Historically in Indian states, classical dances were those dances that were performed either in the temples according to religious rituals or in royal courts accompan...

Let me start with the definition of classical, which says "representing an exemplary standard within a traditional and long-established form or style". The words `traditional` and `lo...

I met a new student last night, and as I do with all new students, the focus of our session was for me to discover what their understanding of guitar was. Along the way, a very famili...