What is Maths about?
I recently attended a course presented by Judy Hornigold and was very enlightened by her. One of the new things that I learnt is What...
Converting Fractions and/or Decimals to Percentages
In my previous post on Percentage, we saw how the % symbol helps us determine how to convert Percentages to decimals. For example, 20%...
Division by 2-digit divisor
It seemed that almost every other student I came across, when they encounter a division problem involving a 2-digit divisor, would always...
Online sessions - scheduling
It has been a few months now that I started online tutoring sessions and it has been wonderful. The Zoom platform has been really easy to...
Compound Interest and Depreciation
I came across a new formula for calculating depreciation during one of my tutoring sessions. We were working on compound interest using...
Finding Percentage of
The most common example of finding percentage of would be discounts. If something cost $510, a discount of 30% would be $153. Usually, we...
Matrix Multiplication
Matrix multiplication can be quite confusing for many students and although the process seems pretty straight forward, it can be easily...
Unit price
Just the other day, one of my students was having trouble remembering how to find the unit price of an item when given the price and...
Time - Number of hours and minutes
It seems that to find the number of hours and minutes between 2 given time can prove to be a little challenging. There are namely two...
Time - Number of hours
How do we calculate the number of hours between 2 given time? For example, how many hours between 2pm and 5pm? The easiest way to do this...
