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October 5, 2015March 24, 2016Oxford Maths

In the new curriculum, one mathematical theme that now has a lot more attention given to it in primary and at KS3 is the network of connections between quantities, measurements, units, ratio, fractions and percentages.  If we’re not careful these connections end up being remembered only as a collection of ‘things to do’ and then […]

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