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

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 showing students 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 ...

sequence term has 2 different meanings in maths

sequences page 1 NC quick find an expression for the nth term

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)

2⁵ and 5² are different and what they mean

standard form: whats the little numbers in the air mean

evaluate

valueINDEX: what doe evaluate mean?

decode and use verbal clues