How to Improve Your Maths Skills
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Guru Nanak College of Education Almirah No-36/1 | Not for loan | BED0004023 |
Contents: -
Arithmetic
1. Basic arithmetic and the 'BODMAS' rule: Getting used to basic arithmetic and simple calculations, and making sure you perform them correctly!
2. Negative numbers: Understanding negative numbers and dealing with them accurately
3. Fractions: understanding what fractions mean and being able to manipulate them correctly
4. Percentages, ratios and prportions: using percentages and rations to describe and compare values
5. Decimals, decimal places and significant figures: using decimal numbers and rounding numbers to a certain number of decimal places
6. Scientific notation: representing very small and very large numbers using scientific notation
7. Indices: writing repeated multiplications easily, roots and the laws of powers
Algebra
8. An introduction to algebra: using sysmbols to represent numbers and an introduction to algebra
9. Bracket in algebra: using brackets in algebraic expressions
10. Solving linear equations: using algebra to solve linear equations
11. Transposition and algebraic fractions: rearranging expressions using basic rules of algebra
12. Solving simultaneous equations: solving two equations at the same time
Data
13. Presentation of data: using various types of graphs and charts to illustrate data visually
14. Measures of location and dispersion: working out 'averages' and a measure of the spread of a set of data
15. Straight lines: linear data and calculating the equation of a straight line
16. An introduction to probability: Working out probabilities - the chances of something happening
Other topics
17. Areas and volumes: Calculating the areas and volumes of basic shapes
18. Logarithms: calculating logarithms- the opposite of powers
19. Quadratic equations: solving equations involving powers of X
20. An introduction to trigonometry: Calculations with triangles, including angles and trignometric functions
21. Basic number theory: some concepts in numbers that you might come across
22. Inequalities and basic logic: Using mathematical symbols to represent inequalities and basic logical concepts
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