<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655121651369286899</id><updated>2011-07-31T01:53:55.156-07:00</updated><category term='Percentages'/><category term='Number'/><category term='statistics'/><category term='Index'/><title type='text'>B Grade Maths</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bgrademaths.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6655121651369286899/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bgrademaths.blogspot.com/'/><link 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/&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Standard form&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bgrademaths.blogspot.com/2009/06/percentage-increasedecrease.html"&gt;Percentage increase/ decrease&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bgrademaths.blogspot.com/2009/06/interest-simple-and-compound.html"&gt;Compound interest/ depreciation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bgrademaths.blogspot.com/2009/06/reverse-percentages.html"&gt;Reverse percentage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Four rules of fractions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Algebra&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Quadratics&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Factorising&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Difference of two squares&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simultaneous equations&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;y = mx + c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Regions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Graphs of cubic and reciprocals&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Recognise the shapes of functions&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Shape and space&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Trigonometry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bearings by trigonometry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Similar shapes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Circle theorems&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"&gt;Handling data&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cumulative frequency&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bgrademaths.blogspot.com/2009/12/box-plots.html"&gt;Boxplots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moving averages&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tree diagrams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6655121651369286899-1026679628767790276?l=bgrademaths.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bgrademaths.blogspot.com/feeds/1026679628767790276/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link 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scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='statistics'/><title type='text'>Box plots</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_2319881"&gt;&lt;a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/sbishop2/handling-data-boxplots" title="Handling Data boxplots"&gt;Handling Data boxplots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=handlingdataboxplot-091022090952-phpapp02&amp;stripped_title=handling-data-boxplots" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/&gt;&lt;embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=handlingdataboxplot-091022090952-phpapp02&amp;stripped_title=handling-data-boxplots" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" 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style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;An example:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try to do the question first:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;In a sale, normal prices are reduced by 12%&lt;br /&gt;The sale price of a a  computer is £726.&lt;br /&gt;Work out the normal price of the computer&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sh5BLFB9hJc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sh5BLFB9hJc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Another worked example&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;A hat costs £99.60 after a 17% priced reduction.&lt;br 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6655121651369286899.post-4400119481944380240</id><published>2009-06-29T02:53:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-29T02:58:33.460-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Percentages'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Number'/><title type='text'>Interest: simple and compound</title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/B3IdfBcXrLA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/B3IdfBcXrLA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div 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