GCSE maths place value questions appear on many exam papers and you can download the questions here. They can be relatively straightforward although you need to be careful about making sure that you apply the rules. The main things to remember when working with GCSE maths place value questions are: Always make the decimal point clear in your answer - it could lose you a … [Read more...]

 This video is about how to 'rationalise the denominator' - which is just a way of changing the bottom of a fraction to a whole number - and gives a few examples: 5 divided by 3√2 becomes 5√2 / 6 and 18 divided by √3 becomes 6√3 Like many of these exercises, in isolation, they appear to be fairly irrelevant - it's only when you need to manipulate equations in … [Read more...]

Here's a series of GCSE percentage questions that I'm working through from the practice questions post . I hope that you've been able to work through without any problems! Here's also the worked answers. If you'd like to ask for any more detail, or you're not sure about anything, please do ask a question in the comments section. I'll let you know as soon as I've posted an … [Read more...]

How to enlarge a shape by scale factor is one of those GCSE questions that you don't really think you'll ever need.. I guess, like a lot of math, it's just whether you are involved in that employment area. Enlargement of shapes is very important if you work in design, architecture, city landscapes, modelling or any area that requires a scale model first. The whole idea of … [Read more...]

This post is just a random collection of tough maths questions - asked by YouTube subscribers, tutoring students, or occasionally my own study. Many of the questions are 6 - 9 grade and present a good level of challenge for all students. It's quite likely that the videos will include word problems, statistics, geometry, algebra and some of the new topics that will be on … [Read more...]