DD is doing KS3 Maths... Percentages. She can do simple sums like finding what is 30% of 150. No problem.
But questions like the following really stump her :
"Sue used to earn £70 per week. Now her salary has increased by 30%, so how much does she earn now?"
Or
"Tom earns £60 a week now but he used to earn 20% less than that per week. How much did he used to earn?"
She's tried Conquermaths videos, Mathshub videos, she's seen loads of example questions worked out in front of her, and even I tried to explain it to her too, but once she's on her own, she just cannot do those word questions by herself. She doesn't even know how to start. Or she would attempt to do some random calculations in an attempt to try and do "something" about solving the question, but they don't make logical sense and don't solve any part of the problem.. She can't really make sense of them either
I don't know if it's just the complexity of word problems that floor her.. Wonder if anyone has any advice?
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eliphant · 01/04/2016 20:53
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