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Author Alexander, Serena

Title Common Entrance 13+ Core Mathematics for ISEB CE and KS3
Published London : Hodder Education Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (364 p.)
Contents Cover -- Book title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Working with numbers -- Place value -- Negative numbers -- The number line -- Multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, 1000 -- Ordering and comparing numbers -- Rounding -- Estimation or approximation -- Word problems -- More about negative numbers -- Multiplying and dividing with negative numbers -- Investigation: Roman numeral investigations -- 2 Powers and roots -- Powers of ten -- Square numbers and their roots -- Cubes and their roots -- More index numbers -- Brackets -- Order of operations -- Using a calculator
Extension: Triangular numbers -- Project: Current affairs -- environmental reports -- 3 Factors and multiples -- Rules of divisibility -- Finding factors -- Prime numbers -- More about factors and multiples -- Common factors and common multiples -- Extension: Using factors to calculate -- Activity: A 1 to 100 square investigation -- 4 Calculations -- Mental arithmetic strategies -- Written calculations -- Multiplying and dividing by multiples of 10, 100, 1000 -- Long multiplication -- Long division -- Problem solving -- Activity: Countdown and other games -- 5 Fractions and decimals
Simple fractions -- The four operations with fractions -- A fraction of an amount -- Problem solving with fractions -- Converting decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals -- The four operations with decimals -- Multiplying and dividing by a decimal -- Extension: Using a calculator -- Investigation: Recurring decimals -- 6 Metric and other units -- Metric units -- Calculating with quantities -- Imperial units of measurement -- Money -- Calculating with money -- Credit and debit -- Temperature -- Extension: Converting imperial measures to metric measures
Project: Comparing units of money, currency and measurement from around the world -- 7 Percentages -- Introducing percentages -- Percentages and fraction equivalents -- Percentages and decimal equivalents -- Writing one amount as a percentage of another -- Finding a percentage of an amount -- Percentage change -- Profit and loss -- Extension: More about fractional percentages -- Project: Current affairs -- percentages in the news -- 8 Geometry -- Where did it all begin? -- Angles -- Facts about angles -- Parallel lines and angles -- More about triangles -- Congruent triangles -- Angle problems
Using angles -- Constructions -- Project: Escher tessellations -- 9 Ratio -- Ratios as fractions -- Ratio in patterns -- Working with ratio -- Proportion -- Extension: Ratio and lines -- Project: Charity fundraising -- 10 Working with algebra -- The rules of algebra -- Powers of x -- Index numbers and brackets -- More brackets -- Factorising -- Investigation: The shopkeeper's dilemma -- 11 Equations -- Solving number puzzles -- Equations -- Equations with brackets -- Fractions and equations -- Equations with variables on both sides -- Using equations to solve problems
Summary Exam board: ISEB Level: 13+ CE and KS3 Subject: Mathematics First teaching: September 2021 First exams: November 2022 With more than 30 years' experience teaching Mathematics, Serena Alexander guides you through the ISEB 13+ CE specification for Mathematics, enabling you to support your pupils on their journey to becoming proficient and confident in Mathematics. · Cover all the content for the Core paper: Chapters include Powers and Roots, Metric and Other Units (with a new section on Money), and Geometry. · Bring out the best in every pupil: Challenging tasks and extension exercises in every
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Writing story puzzles with brackets
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781398321441
1398321443