bodmas blog » currency conversion 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.

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