We continued the Money & Finance topic with a look at hourly pay rates; weekly & monthly pay, salaries and commission. The class were again reminded that after the Easter holidays they would be sitting their S3 exams, which would…
Year: 2014
2B1 – week ending 28th March
We continued to look at developing greater Financial Competence by further looking at average pay, salaries, wage deductions & paying tax on wages. This led onto looking at loans and the shocking statistic of how many people in the UK…
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2A1 – week ending 28th March
We looked at developing greater Financial Competence by looking at average pay, salaries, wage deductions, paying tax on wages. A good website for supplying information on various careers including what the job would entail, the necessary qualifications and an indication…
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1W2 – week ending 28th March
This week the class did a bit more work on problem solving in practical situations before starting the topic Time, Timetables & Temperature. The winning group from our class would give their Café Project presentation again and would be judged…
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5C2 – week ending 21st March
Homework 3-4 on Further Calculus was due in on Tuesday 18th March. We started the final topic Exponential & Logarithmic Functions carrying on some of the work done in Unit 1 – Functions & Graphs. The bulk of the work/questions…
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4B4 – week ending 21st March
We continued the National 5 work with the first unit – Applications, with the topic Trigonometry. We continued with the Sine Rule, using it to calculate missing sides, followed by missing angles. This can be found on the MyMaths website…
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3A6 – week ending 21st March
We continued the Percentages work with a look at simple interest on a bank account. This can be found on the MyMaths website under Library – Number – Money & Finance – Simple Interest. This led onto other aspects of…
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2B1 – week ending 21st March
We continued the Finance Project this time planning/costing for a holiday and foreign exchange. We then looked at developing greater Financial Competence by looking at average pay, salaries, wage deductions, paying tax on wages. A good website for supplying information…
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2A1 – week ending 21st March
We continued the Finance Project with another lesson on probability and calculating probability. This can be found on the MyMaths website under Library – Data – Probability – Simple Probability. We then went onto a brief look at the recent…
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1W2 – week ending 21st March
We had one last group give their presentation as we had run out of time last week. After voting the winner was announced to be Galaxy Café who had a poster, a powerpoint to accompany them and a fantastic model…
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