Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Decimals

(By which we mean "decimal fractions")



Here are some resources that will help your understanding of how decimal fraction work and how they relate to other fractions:

Here is a brilliant tool for comparing decimals - take two decimal fractions (eg. 0.91 and 0.835) and see how they are built of tenths, hundredths and thousandths.

This is the decifractator - it's a very simple tool that converts fractions into decimal fractions.

Average

This video explains why we have different types of average (mean, median and mode) and how they are worked out.




Here is a good activity to check you understand mean, median, mode and range.