Maths Resources (page 12)

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...

Pie Charts are used to quickly represent the Proportions of each Group of Data.We do this by taking `Slices` of a Circle, that are proportional towards the size of each group. For ins...

`BIDMAS` or `BODMAS` is a term we hear Maths Teachers use often, but what does it actually mean? Here`s a quick and easy explanation.Let`s take a look at the following calculation:7 x...

Hypothesis testing is an act in statistics whereby an analyst tests an assumption regarding a population parameter. The methodology employed by the analyst depends on the nature of th...

A time trap is a saying I introduce to my students to help them identify a question that could have a negative impact on their ability to perform in the exam. Perhaps the examiner has...