Material created by students working with the School of Mathematics, Statistics & Physics E-Learning Unit at Newcastle University over the summer of 2017, to support students making the transition from school to university.

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Stanislav Duris on Rounding and estimating calculations 8 years, 5 months ago

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Bradley Bush on Using a speed and acceleration graph 8 years, 5 months ago

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Stanislav Duris on Cumulative percent decrease 8 years, 5 months ago

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Lauren Richards commented on Decimals to fractions 8 years, 5 months ago

I totally agree with Elliott's feedback about notation of recurring decimals but I can't seem to make it work when the recurring decimal is a variable. 

Also, in some instances, weirdly, simplify doesn't seem to be working for some of the final answers. 

Lauren Richards on Decimals to fractions 8 years, 5 months ago

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Elliott Fletcher commented on Creating Frequency Tables 8 years, 5 months ago

I tried to use variables for this question, but i'm not really sure it's possible.

Elliott Fletcher on Creating Frequency Tables 8 years, 5 months ago

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Hannah Aldous on Finding the $n^{\text{th}}$ Term of a Quadratic Sequence 8 years, 5 months ago

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Lauren Richards on Solving linear simultaneous equations by elimination 8 years, 5 months ago

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Elliott Fletcher commented on Decimals to fractions 8 years, 5 months ago

This all looks pretty good, i just have a few suggestions.

Main Parts

a) iii) For a recurring decimal, you could use a handy piece of notation to avoid writing something like 0.6666...

using 0.\dot{6}, you can write the 6 with a dot above it which is the common notation for a recurring decimal. If you do want to use this i would also put a note in the statement saying 0.\dot{6} means 0.666...

Advice

On the first line you say "to convert a fraction into a decimal" whereas this should be "to convert a decimal into a fraction". I also think in this opening paragraph that you should say that you are multiplying the numerator and the denominator of this fraction by 10 instead of just saying that you multiply the whole fraction by 10.

a) iii) I don't think this is really enough of an explanation for how you convert a recurring decimal to fraction. I think there is actually a different method for converting recurring decimals to fractions, see the following link: http://studymaths.co.uk/topics/convertingRecurringDecimalsToFractions.php

a) iv) you haven't entered the decimal that you are converting to a fraction underneath the iv) here as you have with the other questions.

Otherwise, i think this is a good question!

Elliott Fletcher on Decimals to fractions 8 years, 5 months ago

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Hannah Aldous on Combining Logarithm Rules to Solve Equations 8 years, 5 months ago

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Hannah Aldous on Using the Quadratic Formula to Solve Equations of the Form $ax^2 +bx+c=0$ 8 years, 5 months ago

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Hannah Aldous on Use the quadratic formula to solve an equation in terms of an unknown variable 8 years, 5 months ago

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Lauren Richards on Addition and subtraction of fractions 8 years, 5 months ago

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Bradley Bush created Using a speed and acceleration graph 8 years, 5 months ago