Choosing Between Mental, Written and Calculator Methods (Parent Q&A)
This guide explains how the lesson compares mental calculation, written working and calculator use. Open Full Article...
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This guide explains how the lesson compares mental calculation, written working and calculator use. Open Full Article...
This guide supports teaching the completed lesson on choosing between mental, written and calculator methods. Open Full Article...
The same calculation can make one method sensible and another needlessly difficult. Open Full Article...
This guide explains the lesson’s main ideas about square roots, surds and exact values. Open Full Article...
This guide supports a home-educating parent teaching surds and exact values from the associated lesson. Open Full Article...
If √2 is about 1.414, why would a mathematician sometimes prefer to leave the answer as √2? Open Full Article...
This guide explains the lesson’s connected ideas about indices, roots, reciprocals and fractional powers. Open Full Article...
This guide supports a home-educating parent teaching indices, roots and fractional powers to a learner aged 11 to 16. Open Full Article...
Why does 2³ mean 2 × 2 × 2, while 2^(1/2) extends the same power notation through a connection with roots? Open Full Article...
This guide supports parents explaining how recurring decimals can be converted into exact fractions. Open Full Article...