Words, Charities and Graphs
We're just about coming to the end of this term and, like most years, the centre will be closed for the final two weeks of August. It's been a fantastic year. Thank you to all the inspiring students who have worked hard, consistently attended, gone the extra 10%, made us laugh and been awesome!
Key Stage 2 (2nd to 5th Grade)
It's good to hear students asking to use a dictionary. While it's easier to use Google, leafing through the pages to find a word can be quite useful. It's a good discipline, gives students wider vocabulary, and helps to 'embed' the word for future use.
Here's a list - can you find the correct meanings?
Key Stage 3 (6th to 8th Grade)
Here's a KS3 assignment - please do let me know when complete, and we'll always be pleased to offer feedback.
You are keen to support a local charity, and have been asked to write a speech, to present it to your school. Remember to think about: audience and purpose, spelling, grammar and punctuation.
Key Stage 4 (9th and 10th Grade)
There's quite a few different types of graphs to learn for GCSE maths. From 'data handling' such as pie charts, histograms, frequency polygons to the more 'theoretical' straight line, quadratic and cubic.
Here's a straight line graph worksheet.
Have a great week
Simon D
PS. And finally:
Robert Recorde, an English mathematician, is credited with the invention of the equals sign '=' in 1557. In one of his many books he wrote '…to avoid the tedious repetition of these words: “is equal to”, I will set a pair of parallels, of one length (thus =), because no two things can be more equal.'
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