bodmas blog » Number http://bodmas.org/blog Keith Peter Burnett's blog about Maths teaching and ILT Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:13:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Foreign currency http://bodmas.org/blog/maths/foreign-currency/ http://bodmas.org/blog/maths/foreign-currency/#comments Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:41:13 +0000 Keith Burnett http://bodmas.org/blog/?p=821 leaving multiply returning divide

Download one side on foreign currency conversion. It explains converting from Sterling to foreign currency and back again, and has a few questions of each kind. The worksheet assumes that students will use calculators.

I was searching for Web pages with simple explanations of the topics in the Number unit of an access maths module so that I could make a ‘hyperlinked calendar’ of topics for each week. I couldn’t find anything sensible for foreign currency so I wrote this. Spatchcocking together examples and YouTubes and demonstrations and quizzes from lots of different sources on the Web sounds good in principle but there are drawbacks in practice.

Part of 20 Minutes, although it took about 40 minutes really.

]]> http://bodmas.org/blog/maths/foreign-currency/feed/ 0 10 numeracy questions http://bodmas.org/blog/maths/10-numeracy-questions/ http://bodmas.org/blog/maths/10-numeracy-questions/#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 08:00:50 +0000 Keith Burnett http://bodmas.org/blog/?p=787 Just 10 questions a bit like the Level 1 numeracy test with answers.

]]> http://bodmas.org/blog/maths/10-numeracy-questions/feed/ 0 Ratio and Proportion slide deck http://bodmas.org/blog/maths/ratio-and-proportion-slide-deck/ http://bodmas.org/blog/maths/ratio-and-proportion-slide-deck/#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:24:25 +0000 Keith Burnett http://bodmas.org/blog/?p=730 I’m attempting a visual presentation of ratio and percentage problems to see if I can ‘cut through’ some of the verbal issues with the usual story problems you find in textbooks. As the assessment format is problems in words, I’ll need to make the links to these story problems, but I hope that by sorting out the method needed to solve the problems visually first, the students will be able to concentrate on understanding what the question is about. Well, that is the theory!

Ratios And Proportion
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: education maths)

The pale yellow background and large text are to suit a student with a specific requirement in one of my groups. I might try a ‘slide cast’ in SlideShare, but you have to fiddle with timings for each slide transition so I might talk through the slides in my YouTube format.

The Ratio and Proportion PowerPoint is available for download [ 600Kb ]. The cous-cous packet simply happened to be on the table when I was thinking of problems… Onto percentages…

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