Maths Resources (page 35)

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...

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...

PRIME NUMBERSA prime number is a number whose only divisors are 1 and itself. In ascending order, the prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, etc etc.Note that by convention 1 i...

MEANS, MODES AND MEDIANSMeans, modes and medians are measures to help describe or summarise a group of numbers.A) The mean of a group of numbers is the average, calculated by adding ...

FACTORSThe factors of a number are all the numbers that divide into the number.ExampleFind the factors of 64.Start with 1, then 2, then 3 etc to see if it goes into 64. If it does, wr...

Benefits of Maths Tuition Strengthening a vital subject Maths is, along with English, one of the central and most important school subjects. At every level of education, a child’...

I was recently at an event and I enjoyed the experiences shared by some of the speakers about growing up and their childhood. One of the speakers who was now clearly a successful P...

I will analyse the above maths question from the Eton King s Scholarship 2014 exam paper. 9 a) Given are 4 conditions, we know the 3 angles of the triangle in terms of x and y...

A research team is interested in how many T-shirts people own. They interviewed 10 people and the results are shown below:4,7,4, 10, 1, 3, 6, 2, 12, 4, 5Find the mean, median, mode an...