Maths Resources (page 10)

Prime numbers are positive integers who have exactly two distinct divisors- 1 and itself. Every positive integer can be uniquely factorised as a product of powers of distinct prime n...

Here are some good bullet points to get you started. Everyone s different but the following tips worked well for me personally! The most important thing is actually putting the ...

The Egyptians knew some of the principles of Pythagoras s theory, even if the Greeks who actually cracked it properly (hence the name Pythagoras was a Greek).The Egyptians knew that...

The field of vectors have a number of practical applications in physics and every day life. Knowing the fundamentals of adding, subtracting, multiplying (dot and cross) provides a vie...

I had a friend who was asked at a job interview, years ago for an internship, to add up all the numbers from 1 to 1000. It was meant as a brainteaser, a test of his intelligence. He d...

Mathematics. We have been learning it since we were only four years old, all in preparation for the seemingly insurmountable GCSE exam. Not just that, but it is considered one of the ...

The Aims of Teaching Mathematics 1. Introduction The mind is an instrument, you first sharpen it, and then use it the acquisition of the power of solving a quadratic equati...

It represents the equal parts of the whole. A fraction has two parts, namely numerator and denominator. The number on the top is called the numerator, and the number on the bottom is ...

A power is another word for indices (what we looked at briefly during the BIDMAS section). Powers frequently pop up in mathematics, and to recognise them, it is usually a small number...

This is a research paper by &Neil Mercer Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK and Claire Sams Faculty of Education and Language Studies, The Open University, Milton Ke...