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

• % of CALC problems - "percent of" means percent CALC: 17%
• long→length etc changeUnits: m2cm

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

dimensions

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

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

long → loength

wide → wideth

high → height

• long→length etc changeUnits: m2cm

percentage of with a calculator

• % of CALC problems - "percent of" means percent CALC: 17%

an expression in terms of 

• sequences page 2 5n write an expression in terms of n for ...

mean, median, mode and range 

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

mean = its' mean to make you work this out without a calculator

mode = most

median = middle

range - not the same as the english language meaning 

• MMMRQ range ( from 1 minute to 1:53)