Try this exercise. Don’t forget to set your sums out carefully by lining up the decimal points.
Jan 192012
Jan 152012
To compare fractions, decimals and percentages change everything to decimals first.
So to place 
, 0.7 and 76% in order
= 0.75 (divide the numerator by the denominator)
76% = 0.76
So the correct order, smallest first is 0.7, , 76%
Try these
Jan 152012
Jan 152012
Students often need to be able to compare fractions. Do you know which is bigger between 
and 
?
means the whole has been divided into 5 equal pieces and you have one of them.
means the whole has been divided into 6 equal pieces and you have one of them.
The fraction wall shows that the larger the denominator, the smaller each piece becomes, so is greater than .
Try this exercise to choose the biggest fraction.
Jan 152012
Can you interpret the graphs correctly?
Jan 142012
Numbers are often rounded to find approximate percentages. For example if 28 out of 119 ESOL students come from Eastern Europe we could round to the nearest ten, giving us 30 out of 120.
30÷120 x 100 = 25% so we can say that 28 out of 119 students is roughly 25%.
Practice approximating percentages with this quiz.
Jan 142012
This Interactive White Board tool is great for investigating the properties of polygons.
Jan 142012
Useful Interactive White Board tool for introducing students to the concept of Line Symmetry.
Jan 142012
Useful Interactive White Board tool to introduce students to positive and negative coordinates.
Jan 122012
Sometimes complicated fractions can be rounded and cancelled down.
could round to 
because 72 is 70 to the nearest 10 and 99 is 100 to the nearest 10.
See if you can approximate these fractions.
Jan 092012
Practice your arithmetic with this realistic darts game.
http://www.fi.uu.nl/toepassingen/00058/toepassing_rekenweb.en.html
Jan 092012
http://www.fi.uu.nl/toepassingen/03015/exercise1.html
Practice your angle estimation by finding as many different ways to get the ball in the hole as possible.
Jan 092012
This is a great tool to practice estimating angles.
http://nrich.maths.org/content/00/06/game1/StopClock.swf
Jan 092012
This very neat animation shows why angles in a triangle always add up to 180 degrees.
http://www.echalk.co.uk/Maths/triangle/angleSum.html
Have a go at working out the missing angles in these triangles.
Jan 082012
Thank you Kevin Morris for this video showing how to find the volume of a cylinder.
Jan 082012
See if you can read the tyre gauges correctly.
Jan 042012
Can you read speedometers? Try this simple quiz.
Jan 042012
Practice reading scales by matching the shopping to the correct weight showing on the scales. If you click refresh when you’ve finished you’ll get a different exercise.
Jan 042012
Have you got the stamina to keep up with this speedy video? This is why Graham loves maths!
Jan 022012
If you are preparing for the Level 2 Adult Numeracy test one thing you have to practice is speed! You have 40 questions to answer in one hour and a quarter, so you need to be quick! Here is a timed tes
t to see if you can answer questions under pressure!
Remember area is the space inside the shape and perimeter is the distance around it.