s-cool maths

Listen to a 10 minute maths lesson and see if it helps.

Some people are auditory learners, some are visual learners and some learn through moving.

Ordering decimal numbers (if you found the lesson hard)

The BBC Skillswise page on decimals has a worksheet and a game on ordering decimals that will help you understand how decimal numbers work. Once you feel better with these ideas then try the next link…

Decimal Arithmetic

The worksheets about using decimals are very good for practice material. The quizzes on decimal arithmetic provide instant feedback on questions that are similar to the ones you find on quick maths tests.

The Highest Common Factor (HCF) and the Lowest Common Multiple (LCM) are easy once you get used to the names.

• HCF of 8 and 12 is 4. The HCF is smaller than the numbers.
• LCM of 8 and 12 is 24. The LCM is larger than the numbers.

We decided one way to remember this would be

• Factors are feeble
• Multiples are massive.

But remember that a number is also a factor of itself and a multiple of itself.

Follow this link for a page with notes and interactive exercises :: you can try to answer the questions as you go along and then check your answers. This page explains both the ‘common sense’ method and the ‘prime factors’ method.

Any problems (or if you like this kind of exercise) just ask a question or leave a note using the ‘Ask a question about this item’ link below

Follow this link and a Web page containing BODMAS questions will open in a new window.

The questions are multiple choice questions. A question such as ‘Work out 4 + 2 x 5′ is followed by four possible answers. You click on the answer you think is correct and the Web page will check your answer! If you get one wrong, read the hints and try again.

If you would like more of these online quizzes, then just leave a comment by clicking on the Ask a Question link below…

Below are some links to the BBC Web site if you like using computer based material to study…

• Adding and subtracting
• Multiplying
• Dividing

As always with the huge BBC Skillswise Web site, read the factsheets, then try a quiz or a game. Start the easier levels on the quizzes and games to get the ‘feel good’ factor. Remember, you pay for the BBC Web sites through your licence fee!

The BBC SkillsWise web site has a page about learning your tables. Read the factsheet, then try the quiz or game.

Look in the Access Module 1 category for stuff for the work this term…

Ask questions here as well…

I’m using this Web site to support Access Maths students this year.

Check back here for quizzes and links, and don’t forget to leave comments!

This post contains ‘one of each’ of the things I use on this blog, audio, YouTube of presentation with narration and a pure slide deck. Which one do you think works best? Answers please in the Ask the Experts forum, not here, as Helen and the others would like to join in!

Pure sound files

Market Maths is an MP3 file describing simple proportional calculations. I pushed the boat out a little and used a digital sound recorder and microphone to record some ‘ambient’ background in Birmingham City markets. The mix was done using Audacity.

YouTube

If you can access YouTube, then this talks you through tree diagrams.

Slideshare

Above is a Linear equations ’slideshare’ deck. No sound track, and you can click when you want to advance the slides. You can use OpenOffice to export PowerPoints as flash animations if you have firewall issues.

I’ll be thinking of you all as I wait for the removal van!

I’ll be off this site for a few days while they reconnect my broadband.