Archive for the Category 'Decimals'

Decimal places and significant figures quiz

Thursday, November 02nd, 2006

A quiz on decimal places, significant figures and rounding might help clarify this area of Number. Calculators give you 10 figures even when you want 3.

Significant figures

Monday, October 09th, 2006

BBC Byte Size Maths GCSE material on significant figures: read this and then try the Significant Figures Quiz.

You also need to know how to round to a given number of decimal places.

Decimal arithmetic

Monday, October 09th, 2006

BBC Skillswise has a good page on decimal arithmetic. You should try the quiz at Level A and Level B.