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Finding Ratio Amounts of Proportions

Ratios and Proportions are used for cooking as well as making drinks. A strawberry milkshake can be made by mixing together in a blender 2 parts strawberry ice cream to 7 parts of milk. This can be written in Ratio … Continue reading

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Simplifying Ratios

Image Source: http://www.createdby-diane.com Let’s say we want to make some of our favourite Peanut Butter Cookies, which normally requires the ingredients shown above. However, when we check in the fridge, we only have one egg. To make our cookies with … Continue reading

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Introduction to Ratios

Image Copyright 2012 by Passy’s World If you have ridden a bike lately, then you will know that for going downhill very fast, we use a Rear Cog that does not have as many teeth compared to the Front Chain … Continue reading

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Mathematics in Games Programming

Welcome to our Car Race Game made in Scratch. Click the Green Flag to start and then choose one of the three race tracks to use. Use the following keys to drive around the track: Use the Up Arrow to … Continue reading

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Expanding Brackets Using Distributive Rule

Image Copyright 2012 by Passy’s World We use some special methods for multiplying Algebra terms involving brackets. This is because the normal BODMAS / Pemdas methods for brackets do not work well for Algebra. In this lesson we look at … Continue reading

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