"It is one-eighth of a heartbeat, 1/30th of a sigh, 1/21,000,000,000th of a lifetime"
(from "Track & Field: Fight for a fraction". Time Magazine, March 13, 1964)
Fractions. You know them best as the marks given to you on pieces of assessment: e.g., 25/40. 37/80.
You’re probably able to convert these to a percentage, or at least to calculate whether you passed or not! BUT…it’s important that you can add, subtract, multiply, divide, and manipulate these functions quickly and confidently.
The most difficult year-12 level fraction questions are reviewed in the following test. See how you go without the use of a calculator:
All good? Still fighting to understand key fractions concepts?
There are revision activities available on the BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/
maths/number/fractions2hirev1.shtml
Can you turn a fraction into a decimal? Can you turn a decimal into a fraction? Where do percentages come into all this? Let’s revise.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/maths/number/fracsdecpersrev1.shtml
Make sure you understand!
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