One of a number of tried and tested technique for teaching work that students learners find hard to learn found in teaching tricks and tips

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The plan for this page is to build up examples as above and include links to "teaching Higher work to Foundation studentslearners" videos and more easy on the eye student learner "remind-me" videos. For now though here is a list of situations where showing students learners how to decode and use verbal clues has helped.

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A simple example is the link between long and length, wide and width and high and height.

By showing students learners how we take the short word and change and extend the words, makes the link clear to studentslearners. 

long → loength

wide → wideth

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mean, median, mode and range 

Many teachers and students learners use these short cuts to remember the difference between the mean, median and mode

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