Daughter panicking with studying for maths prelims in Jan. I'm working with her on the anxiety side of things but I kinda don't blame her.
She's a good student but last year their scheduled teacher took very ill and they ended up with a series of not good sub teachers, also school didn't seem to organise the sub teachers well. This year they've got a permanent teacher but he's not very approachable and I suspect panicked himself about getting them up to scratch for the prelims (this was one of the top classes, nat 5) and so a concern for the schools results I think. The students felt rushed through on some areas and didn't speak up and so I think areas they didn't 'get' the teacher thought they had...nightmare for teacher and students I think. At parents eve I raised this and he did say he had been told this by a few of the parents so in the last few weeks of term he tried to cover the areas they were stuck on.
I'm rubbish at maths Myself and so no bloody use at all!
Eg my answer to the below was £120
"A microwave was sold for £150 this price Inc vat at 20%, calculate the price of the oven" so I figured 10% is £15, so 20% is £30 therefore pre vat price £120 but answer is £125? So I'm thinking what I did wrong was calculate the percentage based on the price including vat when it's asking to calculate the price before the vat added? I vaguely remember doing this YEARS ago as a data clerk but I've forgotten how! Plus how they show workings has COMPLETELY changed!
She's finding the sqa site not very helpful and difficult to navigate, ditto edmodo which also keeps bloody crashing! She's found a couple of things on YouTube channel mahalo but we're struggling to find helpful sites.
This is what she tells me she's struggling with:
"Finding the equations of straight lines in the form y=MX+c" I'm not sure how to describe that so have just put the question.
Changing the subject in formulae
Finding the point of intersection of straight lines
Rainbow brackets?
Quadratic equations
Dividing vulgar fractions (but not simple equations)
Calculating volume
Algebra - some of the questions on the past papers don't seem clear.
Of course don't expect mners to do the questions but can you signpost us to websites/resources that may help? We're a bit desperate here
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Baconyum · 21/12/2015 18:51
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