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How to Improve Your Maths Skills

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2011Edition: SecondDescription: 211pISBN:
  • 9789332516953
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Foreign Author Foreign Author Guru Nanak College of Education Almirah No-36/1 Not for loan BED0004023

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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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