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Author:   Ann Moore
Publisher:   Shieldcrest Publishing
Imprint:   Shieldcrest Publishing
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9781912505975

ISBN 10:   1912505975
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   23 February 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Prologue i Introduction: The Why? ii 1) Vocabulary Close to Everyday Usage to help our understanding 1 2) Stunning Superior Special Numbers 4 a) Endearing Even Numbers b) Offbeat Odd Numbers c) Intimidating Integers d) Reprobate Reciprocals e) Scary Square Numbers f) Terrifying Triangle Numbers g) Roguish Rectangle Numbers h) Formidable Factors and Fiendish Factor Pairs i) Perturbing Primes j) REMEMBER these NUMBER FACTS k) Horrendous Highest Common Factor (HCF) l) Menacing Multiples and Lowest Common Multiple (LCM) m) Purely Perturbing Product of Prime Factors 3) Ominous Operations: The big Four 17 a) Aggravating Addition b) Stressful Subtraction 4) Torrid Time a) Testing Time Intervals 21 b) Taxing 12 and 24 hour clock 5) Ominous Operations: The Return 24 a) Pretentious Product or Maddening Multiplication X b) Tedious Tables c) Grid Method of Multiplication d) Dastardly Division e) Ingenious Inverse Operations 6) Problematic Place Value 35 a) Organising Order Ascending or Descending 7) Fearsome Fractions 41 a) Muddling Mixed Numbers b) Tortuous Top-Heavy Fractions c) Curious Convert A Top-Heavy to A Mixed Number d) Certified Convert A Mixed Number to A Top-Heavy Fraction (The Reverse) e) Frightful Finding Fractions of An Amount f) Pompous Proper Fractions g) Ill-mannered Improper Fractions h) Excruciating Equivalent Fractions 8) Ominous Operations with Fearsome Fractions (+- x The Big Four!): 52 a) Aggravating Addition and Stressful Subtraction of Fractions b) Maddening Multiplication of Fractions c) Dastardly Division of Fractions d) Frightful Finding One Amount as a Fraction of Another 9) Prickly Percentages 61 a) Exasperating Express One Number as a Percentage of Another b) Preposterous Percentage Increase and Decrease 10) Despicable Decimals 74 a) Muddling Money b) Risky Reading Despicable Decimals c) Aggravating Add or Stressful Subtract Decimals d) Calamitous Convert or Change Dreary Decimals to Fearsome Fractions e) Calamitous Convert or Change Fearsome Fractions to Dreary Decimals f) Maddening Multiplication and Dastardly Division of Decimals g) Convert Dastardly Divisions to Dreary Decimals h) Revolting Recurring Decimals i) Idiotic Infinite Ones 11) Abominable Approximations or Rotten Rounding 85 a) Wearisome Whole numbers b) Dreadful Decimal Places (DP) or (dp) c) Stupefying Significant Figures (SF)or (sf) 12) Mystifying Measures 90 a) Confusing Conversions b) Torrid Time c) Loathsome Length(Suffix Metres) d) Chilling Capacity (Suffix Litres) e) Wretched Weight (Suffix Grams) f) Fiendish Foreign Currency Exchange Rates g) Obnoxious Other Conversions Old Imperial and New Metric 13) Nasty Negative Numbers 99 a) Aggravating Addition and Stressful Subtraction of Nasty Negatives b) Maddening Multiplication of Nasty Negatives c) Dastardly Division with Nasty Negative Numbers 14) Noxious Numeracy Problems 106 a) Shocking Salaries and Wages b) Irritating Income Tax c) Vile Value Added Tax (VAT) 20% d) Petrifying Profit and Loss e) Sordid Savings and Interest f) Constraining Credit g) Baffling Best Buys 15) Revolting Ratios 112 a) Sticky Simplifying Ratios 16) Perplexing Proportion 115 17) Arduous Algebra in all its Glory 119 a) Arduous Algebra Addition and Subtraction b) Collecting (A)Like Terms c) Arduous Algebra Multiplication d) Arduous Algebra Division e) Impossible Indices or Powers f) Atrocious Algebra Expressions 18) Burdensome Brackets: 130 a) Bothersome BODMAS (or BIDMAS which I prefer) b) Bad brackets in Algebra c) Extreme Expand or Multiply out One Bracket and Simplify d) Extreme Expand or Multiply out Two Brackets and Simplify e) Defiant Difference of Two Squares 19) Frightening Factorising in Algebra: 137 a) Frightening factorise these Expressions with ONE bracket b) Frightening Factorise these Expressions with TWO brackets 20) Sickening Solving Algebraic Equations: 143 a) Odious 'One-step Equations b) Troublesome Two-Step Equations c) Fatiguing Forming and Solving an Algebraic Equation d) Laborious Letters Appear on Both Sides of the Equation e) Quirky Quadratic Equations with the Letter squared f) Terrible Trial and Improvement g) Supremely Scary Simultaneous Equations 21) Irksome Inequalities Symbols > < 166 22) Supremely Stupefying Surds (or Roots): 169 23) Spooking Standard Index Form: 174 24) Frightful Formulae: 176 a) Shifty Substitution into formulae b) Tricky Transformation of Formulae 25) Shape and Space: The Final Frontier: 180 a) Lousy Lines b) Awful Angles (Right, Acute, Obtuse, Reflex, Right) c) Awful Angles on a Straight Line Add up to 180 degrees d) Vertically Opposite Angles 26) Awful Angles on Parallel lines: 186 a) Interior Angles on Parallel Lines b) Alternate Angles on Parallel Lines c) Corresponding Angles on Parallel Lines 27) Symmetry: 190 a) Bilateral Symmetry or Mirror Symmetry b) Rotational Symmetry 28) Useful Terms to Understand in Shape, Space and Measures: 192 29) Startling Sum of Interior angles in Shapes: 194 a) Agitating Angle Sum of a Triangle b) Agitating Angle Sum Inside any 2D Shape or Polygon 30) Painful Perimeter and Agonising Area 198 a) Painful Perimeter b) Agonising Area 31) Confusing Circles: 207 a) Painful Perimeter and Contrary Circumference b) Appalling Area of a Circle 32) Vexatious Volume of Prisms: 209 33) Pythagoras Theorem: 212 34) Calm, Comfy, Consoling Conclusion: 215 35) Solutions to Questions: 216

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At teacher training college, chance saw me on the main Mathematics course, with Art as a subsidiary, because I had not studied Art at A level. A life changer! Teaching was my vocation. My career began in Birmingham, where I worked with many students who had English as a second language. I soon recognised that literacy was a vital ingredient to access and understand my own subject. So much of everyday language has the same meaning in mathematics. Words such as 'operation', 'function' and' factor' had the same meaning in both contexts. I never stopped learning or aspiring to be a 'better' teacher. Prior to moving to the north-East, I was working as a numeracy consultant for Birmingham Education authority with some 70 plus secondary schools. As a departmental head before that appointment I devised my programme of work in a term and was praised, by Ofsted and my head teacher for turning the department around. I have also been interviewed by the BBC. No fame or celebrity for me though. In my second year of teaching I was appointed as the first female head of IT. It was a challenge with 30 GCSE students and one tape reading machine that too often failed. I enjoyed it but as I gradually taught more IT and computing I came to the realisation my heart lay in mathematics teaching and never looked back. I am proud of being awarded the title of AST (Advanced Skills Teacher) as colleagues, students and parents play a role in the determination of that status. A large part of the role meant designing and delivering training to colleagues across the North-East and disseminating 'best practice.' On retiring in 2009 from full-time teaching, I was appointed part-time to the PGCE course at Newcastle University and later the Teachdirect teacher training scheme. It was a most rewarding time spent with new intake to our wonderful profession.

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