| She wants to read maths at Cambridge University, for which she requires good passes in two advanced maths Highers. |
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| The maths syllabus covers algebra, shape and space, mental arithmetic, handling data and measures. |
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| In classrooms students do courses in theory, English, maths, civics and religion. |
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| It takes me back to my school days, when I was taught to use Venn diagrams in the maths class. |
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| After A-levels our son hopes to go to university to read maths, with the eventual aim of teaching. |
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| It eventually aims to help 15 schools become specialists in maths and computing, technology, engineering or science. |
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| They were learning about surds in maths, supposedly one of the hardest subjects. |
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| So I did a first year dentistry course which was physics, chemistry, maths and science. |
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| Owen Weller, 17, from Faringdon, is studying maths, business studies, English and chemistry. |
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| Applicants will need at least 3 A-levels, excluding general studies, at grade C or above, plus GCSEs in maths and English at grade C or above. |
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| Hence the ultra strict formalist can never be sure that all of maths doesn't collapse. |
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| A background in maths teaching is not required to know that full-time football management is a numbers game. |
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| Thus there were also 12,000 fewer A-level maths candidates this year than last. |
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| Why can English and maths not be taught within subjects like history and geography rather than separately? |
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| Unfortunately, it had been three years since school and my maths had gone down the gurgler. |
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| English was the most popular subject, followed by general studies, maths, biology, history, and psychology. |
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| Christopher's digressions into maths and existential questions amplify what is, on one level, a family drama with a whodunnit attached. |
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| After all, her father was a maths teacher who knew his alpha from his omega. |
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| As a former minister for education and a one-time maths teacher he has made no secret of his desire to see improvements in educational standards. |
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| Professor Smith had a glittering academic career in maths before going into university management. |
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| Unfortunately, it's the only theorem I remember from school. That may be why it took me two goes to get my maths O level. |
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| You would still have to do stuff like maths, even if that wasn't the area of study you were interested in. |
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| As well as his normal boyish pursuits of guddling for trout, playing pranks on PC Murdoch, and avoiding maths tests, Wullie has a love interest. |
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| Again, do the maths to work out the value of using your Air Miles before booking these options. |
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| There are books to help children with their maths and science and teach them to recite poems and sing songs. |
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| Many people assume that architecture is a predominately technical subject requiring maths and sciences. |
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| Five students secured top marks in maths, physics, chemistry and biology by scoring full marks in the subjects. |
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| A mentor, who offers incentives for good behaviour like day trips, has also helped boost the 14-year-old's maths, woodwork and teamwork skills. |
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| They were appropriately pompous but looked like crumbly high school maths teachers. |
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| The maths game, which has the working title Pirate's Star, is being devised by software developers at Abertay. |
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| James achieved A grades in maths, further maths, physics, chemistry and electronics. |
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| I passed my French A level last summer so can concentrate on the maths, music and business studies. |
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| Sean was happy with the honours English paper but thought the ordinary level maths paper was hard enough. |
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| Maqume is a Xhosa and maths teacher and also deputy school principal at Ntabeni Junior Secondary School at Xonya near here. |
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| One is represented by science, which is founded on the search for regularities, sometimes for laws of nature, backed by maths and logic. |
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| He was expelled two months ago for behavioural and truancy problems and returned on Friday to resit a maths exam. |
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| He returned on Friday to resit a maths exam which he clearly had no intention of taking. |
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| Tall, with long, Sixties-style hair and trendy dark shirts, he does not conform to the public stereotype of the anoraked maths professor. |
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| She grinned involuntarily, amused by his likeness to her high school maths teacher. |
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| As he sees it, the beauty of art and the beauty of maths are two sides of the same coin. |
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| Multiplication tables and long division are being being made simpler at a Japanese maths club in Warminster. |
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| For the record, in case anyone is thinking it, the assertion that women are worse at maths is also utter rubbish. |
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| He was the fastest runner at school, he knew the maths and the grammar the best, and on the top of it, he could paint and draw better than me. |
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| They are also given vocational training, such as tailoring or carpentry, and are taught to read, write and do simple maths. |
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| Scoring good marks in most subjects, he is foxed by his inability to do well in maths. |
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| Higher maths was good and the sciences and the languages, Irish especially was very good. |
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| I favour using beads or bits of cake, but this will no doubt be interpreted as a suggestion that maths should be dumbed down. |
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| Jamie has a reading age of nine and has poor writing and maths skills, but has a talent for working with his hands. |
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| Standards in maths are very high and are well above the national average in English and science. |
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| In maths they should be able to multiply two digits by two digits, read graphs as well as working with percentages and fractions. |
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| I've never really been one for graphs and charts, despite being a bit of a maths geek. |
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| The Harrogate and Knaresborough MP said the new baccalaureate should allow higher rewards for pupils taking subjects like maths. |
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| As well as reading and writing in the Filipino language and maths, they were taught American English. |
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| I am terrible at maths and even worse at figures, but I trust all my advisers because they are basically friends as well. |
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| Instead they are labelled as bad at maths or stupid when, in fact, what they have is really no more than number blindness. |
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| I once spent a very miserable year with a maths teacher who delighted in picking on me above all others. |
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| This is exactly what we shall do here to try to get a feel for why maths is so useful. |
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| A good standard of maths is also required as there is a high mathematical content to the course. |
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| An easy way to prove this result is by induction, if you have covered that method in your maths classes. |
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| He succeeded at bridge and his maths and mental arithmetic scores jumped by two years. |
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| Maybe I was just bitter because I actually had to listen to our maths teacher for once. |
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| One school of thought is that we should study maths because employers want it. |
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| We also use maths in this situation to establish the limitations of the model and accuracy of the answer. |
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| A degree in maths and computer science has also had its influence on the production. |
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| The question on a maths paper was said to be impossible to answer because the diagrams were wrong. |
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| He corrects some maths and mathematical terms and gets a less dramatic result. |
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| The final way that maths could make you rich and famous is the main subject of this article. |
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| Both are maths teachers and were the main influence on her choice of career. |
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| If they find they can't do it at school, they might come to dread the weekly maths lessons and tests. |
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| Both have been fascinated by maths, computers and programming from an early age. |
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| Of course, no class on maths and the visual arts would be complete without fractals. |
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| He clearly relishes his role as the maths teacher we all wish we'd had at school. |
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| This time I went for the triangle model which took a lot of mental maths and figuring out. |
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| The main teacher shortages are for subjects such as maths and design and technology. |
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| It will certainly generate enthusiasm for maths, and the web site is fun to use. |
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| When I finally got back to Victoria it was quarter past eight, we were supposed to be due in at half five. You do the maths! |
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| Julius says the next 100 years are going to be a glorious golden age of maths, of science. |
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| On other occasions a maths worksheet or a written comprehension exercise might be the homework activity. |
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| In standardised school maths tests, teenage boys outscored girls 13 to one in the top grades. |
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| Wanting to do more than cobble, he taught himself maths, navigation and practical mechanics. |
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| He said the bus also offered fun materials for brushing up on reading, writing and maths skills. |
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| She will take A-levels in English, media studies, art and maths at Blackburn College. |
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| All school-leavers will be required to have achieved basic maths, English and IT and to have done community service. |
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| The business world might look formidable from the outside but not everyone has a double first in economics and maths from St Andrews. |
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| Elaborating, she said that she studies computers, maths, accountancy and biology. |
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| She has taken courses in maths, English, computers, gardening and communications, which involved 30 hours of studying. |
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| Unfortunately, a quick straw poll revealed two engineering students, two physicists and a maths graduate. |
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| I'm going to have to do my maths tonight to see if I need to dash down to the shop and find more of the same dye lot. |
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| Having just begun a fearsome maths test I still remember the surge of relief when the electric bell sounded its continuous warning. |
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| Now, in the physical sciences, maths, chemistry, and so forth, this is generally the case. |
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| In addition to using skills such as maths and English, the youngsters would learn how to see opportunities and make the best of their resources. |
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| It's all in the hands of fate and probability, which our very educational maths classes taught us how to calculate. |
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| The misprinting of two figures on a diagram rendered one of the six questions in the maths exam impossible to answer. |
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| He has one pass in biology a fail in chemistry and an unclassified in maths. |
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| Lucy will be taking A-level examinations in maths, chemistry, biology and geography this year. |
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| An A level student at Sheldon School, Edward is studying biology, physics, chemistry and maths. |
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| Among the high achievers was Hannah, who made the grade in physics, biology, chemistry, maths and general studies. |
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| Rosi reckons there are strong similarities between her talents for maths and for cage fighting, also known as mixed martial arts. |
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| Before 1971 there were 240 pennies in a pound, 12 pennies in a shilling, and maths lessons were a lot more difficult. |
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| Suddenly decided to recheck my maths and realised I must have had a funny turn. |
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| He went on to become head of the maths department but also taught rugby and coached the school's various teams. |
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| The former maths teacher who grew up on Arran is strong on learning experiences. |
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| If maths professors cannot work out how mortgage rates are calculated what chance do we lesser mortals stand? |
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| However, close analysis suggests sizeable minorities of students are performing weakly in both reading and maths. |
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| They should also be able to understand basic maths and geometry, including fractions, decimals, multiplication and division. |
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| The tiny tots tried to explain about maths with the use of small pebbles by counting, addition, subtraction and multiplication. |
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| Our old maths teacher was teaching addition to the kids and she asked us to look on as she went along with her class. |
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| I know a feller who teaches maths at a uni and at one point in his life he had to stop driving. |
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| X was popularised as the unknown in maths when Descartes' printer ran out of Ys and Zs for the mathematician's equations. |
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| Two brainboxes are celebrating after scoring top marks in a national maths challenge. |
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| Unfortunately A level maths means that those kinds of normal sums are beyond me. |
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| Cobej is a former maths scholar, and spends his time away from the training-ground solving brain-teasers. |
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| The school's English and maths scores are down on last year but the science score is iup. |
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| My problem was that I was brilliant at English but hopeless at maths. |
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| Kaplan is a multilingual philosopher, but beneath the walrus moustache he may be better known as a world renowned maths guru and best-selling author. |
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| Perhaps if the council used the funding it has wasted on installing speed ramps all around the estate, its maths might have added up to a better figure. |
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| I don't care about rationalising denominators with surds in them, and I don't care that by using maths induction you can prove many equations to be right or wrong. |
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| Why should we be so dismissive of the grammar schools selection process when most schools stream students of similar ability for science, maths etc? |
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| Various worthies expressed anxiety last week at the high number of pupils failing maths, and at the drop in the number taking the subject at higher level. |
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| One type of programme is an immersion programme in which a large part of the curriculum, such as social studies and maths, is taught in the target language. |
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| Pupils taking a science baccalaureate would be obliged to study a foreign language and those studying the arts version would have to include basic maths and science. |
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| Over the past four years, fewer matriculants have sat the maths and science examination, with both subjects seeing a seven percentage point dip in participation. |
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| However, the numbers enrolling for chemistry, physics and maths degree courses are dropping and university science departments are threatened with closure. |
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| While it's true that applying maths to anything other than counting calories is not compulsory, improving your mind is the path to self-fulfilment. |
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| The idea is for children to write times tables, maths problems or any words they get confused with or struggle to spell, on individual paper cards. |
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| They might find their reading is hard, which could mean they are mildly dyslexic, or their maths might be hard, or they can't colour in properly as they are colour blind. |
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| She is now hoping to study maths, chemistry, biology, physics and history. |
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| At school, maths was the driest, most uncreative subject for me. |
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| She thinks she might go on to study either music or maths at university. |
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| He reminded me strongly of my maths teacher, same tall frame and spindly limbs but he had long platinum blond hair and he was garbed in a ridiculous jesters outfit. |
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| She will take up a music scholarship at Marlborough College in September and will begin studying for A levels in music, business studies, religious studies and maths. |
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| A former greyhound racer who passed his maths O grade at the age of 12, Brindley put his numerical skills to practical use 14 months ago when he turned pro. |
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| As someone who has taken both the old O-level maths and the GCSE version he is also one of the few people who can pass judgment on whether exams really have got easier. |
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| Fewer students than ever are opting to study maths at a higher level. |
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| For example, there is a strong emphasis now on teaching the tricky subject of maths, through an oral technique, rather than the old format of writing it down in your copybook. |
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| But then our Johann isn't so hot on the maths, even at the best of times. |
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| In maths today they could not work out the circumference of a circle. |
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| But he is still a bright spark when it comes to maths and English because he swots up with the help of a special tutor who teaches him on the ward. |
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| The site has work sheets and activities that can be printed off as well as a factoid on the maths page, which gives a different fact each time the page is loaded. |
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| I was waiting for Miss Nichols to let me into the maths room, so that I could do the one hour exam and hopefully boost my maths mark above a fail. |
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| We give them a practical grounding in subjects like computers, maths and communications as well as workshops related to the transition to third level. |
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| But boys were in front on maths, leading the field in most countries. |
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| It was felt to be most appropriate for practical subjects, such as design and technology, and least helpful in the case of maths and foreign languages. |
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| That sounds a bit fruity, I know, but its kinda there in the maths. |
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| Infant girls are also outperforming boys in spelling and maths. |
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| I briefly glossed over it in standard grade maths, but only just. |
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| Prosser studied pure maths at Aberystwyth and might have gone into teaching if the money had not persuaded him to become an actuary like his brother. |
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| Talk of giving primary school children a basic grounding in science is fanciful if we cannot find enough teachers at second level to teach maths and physics. |
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| The second school of thought sees school mathematics primarily as an essential prerequisite to university courses in maths, science, engineering and technology. |
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| Chris Jones teaches the Kumon method of maths and English to 170 students aged four and upwards from across Teesside. |
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| In this country, there's a cultural problem with maths and people think you need to spoon-feed it to kids. |
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| Most people who are forced to use maths have little idea what it is really about. |
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| English and maths exams are being trialled using the new grading system in the 2017 exams. |
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| A teacher went to 16-year-old Jamie Bird's home to invigilate, while the teen ploughed through his maths paper under extraordinary conditions. |
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| If I can convince just one person that maths is more than Pythagoras' Theorem, I'll have succeeded. |
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| Enemy Cert 12 IN this psychosexual thriller Jake Gyllenhaal plays glum maths professor Adam who is in a rocky relationship with girlfriend Helen. |
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| What kind of maths do Snowy owls, pictured right, What kind of maths do Snowy owls, pictured right, enjoy doing? |
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| As well as the OHPs, our fun clocks, fraction puzzle, maths safari cards, large foam dice and software are all on their shopping list. |
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| Nicola Pellow, a maths undergraduate at Leicester Polytechnic, whilst at CERN in November 1990, wrote the world's second web browser. |
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| Whiz-kid Adam Bell will be totting up sums in a battle to be crowned the nation's maths marvel. |
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| One of Penzance's secondary schools is also named after the scientist, and runs as a music and maths community college. |
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| Mr Glen, 50, did highers in English language, history, French, maths, biology and English literature at the Edinburgh Academy. |
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| In maths the pupils should be able to multiply and divide whole numbers by 10 or 100 and be able to use simple fractions and percentages. |
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| Students in Singapore have consistently been ranked as some of the best educated in the world, especially in science and maths. |
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| In maths, they are able to multiply and divide whole numbers by 10 or 100 and use simple fractions and percentages. |
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| If I'd had a dartboard at school I might have learnt maths so that subtraction was second nature. |
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| Several pupils have already seen the benefit of resitting their GCSE maths exams. |
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| He has also branched out into maths and science with the series School of Hard Sums and Stargazing Live. |
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| The Kumon method, developed by Japanese dad Toru Komun to help his son, teaches back-to-basics maths with times tables and no calculators. |
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| If we had managed to probe any other area of human endeavour or questioning to the depth that we have pushed pure maths, the world would be a far dandier place. |
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| As a child, Cayley enjoyed solving complex maths problems for amusement. |
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| It asks standard, commutative and division questions to make sure that children develop a thorough understanding of these fundamental building blocks of maths. |
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| But whether it's playing a conjoined twin, a bong-smoking trustafarian or an autistic teenage maths genius, he has picked parts that go far beyond that of a pretty boy. |
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| Sometimes folding the very best hand, When in the middle is several grand, Full houses, straight flushes or quads, Working out the maths and getting the odds. |
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| Graeme Terrar, 17, is taking A-levels in maths and PE and lives in Barry. |
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| The head of maths at Ysgol Penglais comprehensive, Aberystwyth, spoke after Education Secretary David Blunkett announced plans for school sin bins. |
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| He meant to study maths, but enrolled in physics by mistake. |
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| In The Guardian newspaper's 2012 rankings, Cambridge had overtaken Oxford in philosophy, law, politics, theology, maths, classics, anthropology and modern languages. |
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| They do not study Divination, Arithmancy or Defence Against The Dark Arts, favouring instead subjects like maths, English, languages, science and arts. |
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| The pupils answered questions on book titles, animals, classic works, food, fairy tales, myths and maths posed by quizmaster and children's poet Conrad Burdekin. |
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| Lead Ofsted inspector Patricia Pothecary said Hamstead's pupils had reached above average standards in English, maths and science for several years. |
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| Sometimes, however, the system gets really mysterious, at least for someone like me, who needed electroshock maths classes to get through the exams. |
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| To get this, you need to be competent in English and maths, be 18 or over, have a good driving record, good eyesight and pass a medical as part of the test. |
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| Now, if they weren't members and tagholders, each of those domains would be costing them around GBP70. I'll leave you to do the maths on that one. |
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| Her report confirmed she was severely dyslexic and was also suffering from dyscalculia, which affects the ability to learn maths, meaning only specialist schooling could help. |
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| Another area of maths that you could use from Alice's adventures is at the Mad Hatter's tea party, as they move around the table sitting at new place settings. |
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| Ofsted focused on our children's progress and achievement in English and maths but I'm keen to show how much progress we have made across the different curricular subjects. |
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