So, we are on the summer holidays; a time to relax and catch up with friends and do all the things that you feel you don’t have time to do during work time. Lucky for me, my birthday is in August – I am never at work, school or have exams on my birthday and […]
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Some people are fantastic at estimating measures, well certain measures. I could estimate someone’s height in metres and centimetres and I would be equally happy to use feet and inches. I suspect the generation above me would prefer to use imperial units on the whole, and the generation below me seem able to do a […]
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I spend too much time reminding my students that the currencies they work with (pounds, euros, dollars etc.) must be written to two decimal places or the nearest whole number (depending on whether the major or minor unit is being used) with the correct unit. It is incredibly common for students to just write a […]
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