Welcome to Week 4 of my blog aimed at the 11+ in Buckinghamshire. This week, we look at Missing Letters – a type of Verbal Reasoning – and I give you access to exclusive Missing Letters material. We will also look at Number Lines in Maths. I have checked all clips so that you know they are right for the 11+.
Maths
Number Lines
Number lines can go up or down by whole numbers like the one pictured above.
Here’s a clip.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/z9vgkqt
If you struggle to understand negative numbers, think about the way numbers work on a thermometer, and how the temperature can go from zero to -1, -2 etc.
Practise 10 questions on IXL.
Remember, one section, ten questions, each day
https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-5/count-on-a-number-line-up-to-10-in-both-directions
Let’s pop over to the interactive number line on the Maths is Fun website. You need to go to the webpage for it to work. Do questions 1-8.
https://www.mathsisfun.com/number-line.html
https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-5/count-on-a-number-line-up-to-100-in-both-directions
Number Lines and Decimals
Number lines can deal in smaller units than whole numbers; number lines can go in-between 1 and 2; think of the millimetres in-between each centimetre on a ruler.
Click on the Zoomable Numberline, shift-click to zoom out. Click at left or right to scroll.
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/number-line-zoom.html
More videos and practice on number lines.
The screen shot below is the first of seven video tutorials. Do all sections in the left hand column. When the first section finishes it will go back to the home page, so scroll down to the next session, and the next until you have done all 7.
So to recap, a number line can go from one whole number to another, or in-between whole numbers.
Practice on IXL
https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-6/decimal-number-lines
Now some games, only one is pictured but play all four.
http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/negative-numbers-games.html
Still haven’t learnt your times tables properly?
http://www.free-training-tutorial.com/times-tables-games.html
Prime numbers only have 2 factors, 1 and itself. Primes only come up in the 1 times table. Learn these primes for next week: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11
Verbal Reasoning
Missing Letter
Find the Missing Letter that ends one word and starts the second word of each pair. One letter must work for both pairs.
Example:
min (?) ag sea (?) hem Missing Letter is t
min (t) ag sea (t) hem
to (?) es ke (?) acht
win (?) oe fin (?) eer
ma (?) art lim (?) each
clas (?) eat bu (?) and
hom (?) ast wak (?) arly
was (?) ere wes (?) orn
cloc (?) ey win (?) ind
bes (?) hem nes (?) ime
lam (?) ink si (?) ouch
lim (?) ow com (?) ring
mic (?) nd us (?) gg
fil (?) ice wil (?) end
TIP: If you get a bit stuck, go through the alphabet, IN ORDER, and try each letter on the first word, then the second, then the third, then the fourth. If it works for all four, you’ve got the answer! (If you still don’t know your alphabet all the way through, look at the graphic in week 1 and learn it.)
Remember that spellings can have different pronunciations.
eg: ow as in glow, and ow as in bow
eg: ea as in breathe, and ea as in breath
Remember c becomes an s sound when combined with e, for example mice, twice
a letter can be doubled, for example, fill.
Still not got the answer? Perhaps you don’t know one of the words – take a chance. Mark it with a ? and come back to it when you have finished the others.
Still not got the answer? Read the answers and remember what you missed.
This week’s Ten(ish) words
demolish: to completely destroy, synonyms: destroy, flatten, level, raze; antonyms: construct, build, raise
endeavour (noun): a serious attempt to do something: synonyms: effort, enterprise, venture, struggle; antonyms: passivity, laziness
endeavour (verb): to try to do something: people endeavour to get to Mars: synonyms: strive, aspire; antonyms: abandon, dismiss, neglect
endure 1: to exist for a long time, as in ‘this tradition had endured for generations’: synonyms: linger, persist; antonyms: cease, halt, quit@
endure 2: to experience pain or suffering for a long time, as in ‘he endured the toothache for days’; synonyms: tolerate, bear; antonyms: surrender, yield, disallow
trivial: something unimportant or silly; Some games are trivial; synonyms: unimportant, silly, minor; antonyms: important, profound
apprehensive: feeling anxious as in ‘I was apprehensive about eating the sprouts,’ synonyms: anxious, uneasy, concerned; antonyms: certain, calm, bold, confident.
thriving: healthy, strong, as in ‘the beanpole was thriving’: synonyms: growing, strengthening, flourishing; antonyms: weakening, dying
ascend: to go up, as in ‘the mountaineers ascended to the summit’: synonyms: mount, elevate, climb, antonyms: descend
decline 1: to go down, as in ‘the number of sparrows has declined’: descend, drop, fall, lower, decrease
decline 2: to say ‘no’ to as in, ‘I declined to comment’: synonyms: refuse, rebuff, reject, refrain, spurn: antonyms: accept, welcome.
Doodle a picture for each set of words
NEXT WEEK
Verbal Reasoning: Hidden Word
Maths: Factors and Multiples
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