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But you don't count zero!
It is a curious thing that several students this year (two Year 8 and one Year 11 and all from different schools) have told me that "you...
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Lego combinations
Here is something to challenge your puzzle solving curiousity! How many different ways do you think 6 eight stud lego bricks can be...
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Everything is easy when you know how!
Sometimes students who have been struggling to "grasp a maths concept" suddenly say with a laugh, "Oh that's actually quite easy". I...
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The Fraction Line
It is amazing how many students don't know this.......A key concept about fractions (as students get past halves, thirds and quarters) is...
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ALGEBRA WORKSHOPS Term 1
One of the key topics to success in maths is Algebra and it is the one topic that seems to be a stumbling block for many students. For...
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Tuition runs parallel to school topics
Tuition at The Maths Room is designed to run in parallel with school topics so that students keep up with all the aspects of a topic...
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No going past pencil and paper!
With schools increasing their use of online software such as iNZight to whip up scatter plots and box & whisker graphs, or Desmos to...
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Random Number Generator
Here is a post that walks you through the steps on your graphics calculator to produce randomly generated integers (whole numbers) in a...