Keen Mathematics and Accounting studented at Newcastle University

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Bradley Bush commented on Expansion of brackets 7 years, 5 months ago

Thankyou for the advice, I've added string restrictions, moved the answer boxes and i've added brackets to the advice. Although I haven't added fullstops on the end of questions because they're lone 1 line equations with no sentence sturctured around them 

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Bradley Bush commented on Expansion of brackets 7 years, 5 months ago

Thank you for the feedback, I have fixed the string restrictions on all the parts, I've added the gap boxes and I've put more brackets into the advice but I haven't added the fullstops because the questions are one line and nowhere near a sentence, I'm not sure it's needed.

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Bradley Bush on Expansion of brackets 7 years, 5 months ago

Gave some feedback: Needs to be tested

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Bradley Bush on Equations of straight lines MCQ 7 years, 5 months ago

Gave some feedback: Needs to be tested

Bradley Bush created Equations of straight lines MCQ 7 years, 5 months ago

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Bradley Bush commented on Rounding and estimating calculations 7 years, 5 months ago

I really like this question, especially the gap fills! I would just suggest a few small improvements.

In each part you have the question then the gap fills and then you say "Therefore, x*y=z", I think this would be better if it said "Therefore, your estimate for: x*y=z." because that way you are making clear to the student that this is an estimate, not the real answer.

In the first part of the advice, you write "we look at the first non-zero digit, increasing this digit by one if the following digit is 5 or more", I think it might be better to write what happens if the following digit is bellow 5 as well as this. I know it seems obvious, but there might be a student decreasing the figure by one if it's bellow 5.

Finally, it also might be nice to restate the original equation in the advice so the student doesn't have to scroll back to the question.

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Bradley Bush on Drag points to given Cartesian coordinates 7 years, 5 months ago

Gave some feedback: Needs to be tested

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Bradley Bush commented on Surds simplification 7 years, 5 months ago

This question was really hard to criticise, I only came up with a few pedantic points.

It might have been nice to see more random variables in part a) and maybe part b) so the student can repeat this question for practice.

You may have missed a fullstop in the advice for part bi), and I'm not sure you need fullstops after each equation in the advice to part b, maybe using a comma instead would be better?

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Bradley Bush commented on Extract common factors of polynomials 7 years, 5 months ago

Thank you for your feedback, I have made all of your suggested changes apart from the a*b problem which is proving dificult to solve.