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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Chunking and gridding

Those of you who have kids at primary school level should start brushing up on your maybe long forgotten maths skills. This year British kids will be learning an apparently better method for long divisions and multiplications. Except for those of us who have always had problems with numbers, it's easy to do 3 times 4 (4 x 3), but try "twenty-three times three hundred and five" (305 x 23)!
- Not clear enough ? In this BBC article " Why parents can't do Maths today" you'll find more step by step explanations, instructions and also, quite interesting, parents' opinions.
- And Here you can test your skills at basic addition, subtraction, times tables, etc. and also learn some maths vocabulary.

Don't ask me. It's all Greek to me .

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