Welcome to week 8. For newcomers, this blog is free for all users, all the clips, questions, and advice have been carefully chosen by me, a highly experienced 11+ tutor. This is not only suitable for children in Buckinghamshire, but for children in any area that uses the GL exam board.
Maths
Multiplying fractions
When we need to find a fraction OF a number, we multiply it to get the answer.
That may seem odd, but if we multiply a number by a fraction the number will always get smaller. That is because you are not multiplying by whole numbers, but by less than 1, so of course it will get smaller.
- First, simplify each fraction, if possible
- Second, multiply the top fractions (remember the top number on the top is called the numerator)
- Third, multiply the bottom fractions (the fraction on the bottom is called the denominator)
- Fourth, simplify the answer, if possible.
To find a fraction of a whole number or a fraction of a fraction, we multiply the fractions as in the video below.
Tip: This isn’t explained in the video below, but you need to know it when answering the questions at the end of the video; when multiplying mixed numbers, make the mixed number into an improper fraction.
Intro to multiplying 2 fractions
Remember: ten a day, so practise a different section every day:
Multiply unit fractions by whole numbers using number lines
Multiply unit fractions by whole numbers using models
Multiples of unit fractions: find the missing numbers
Multiply unit fractions and whole numbers: sorting
Multiply unit fractions by whole numbers: word problems
Multiply fractions by whole numbers using number lines
Multiply fractions by whole numbers using models
Multiply fractions by whole numbers: word problems
Multiply fractions by whole numbers
Multiply fractions by whole numbers: word problems
Verbal Reasoning:
Use a Rule to Make a Word
Here are some for you to do:
(I’ve put the numbers in the first one for you….)
- frog (long) lend ware (- – – -) tied
- home (east ) cast nest (- – – -) woes
- meal (meat) fast when (- – – -) drat
- miss ( mown) down that (- – – -) core
- busy (yell) fell went (- – – -) make
- lock (peck ) dupe whir (- – – -) lost
Sometimes a letter could have come from two places. This is where it gets complicated and you need a system.
There are two places the E could have come from. The E’s do not have to remain in the same position, so E could have come from position 2 word 1, or position 3 word 2.
But you look for the word and see: wart. That is your answer.
More practice: (I have put the first set of numbers in for you.)
- mist (dust) used true ( – – – -) lamb
– – 34 23-1 – – – – – – – –
The letters in position 3 could have come from two places.
So we h ave to reflect that in the second set.
But only one combination makes a word: – – – –
- slug (shut) huts sham (- – – – ) calm
- bred (bead) lean lord ( – – – – ) pant
10) bear (near) nice like ( – – – – ) hole
11) shrew (white) hints sharp (- – – – -) apres
Answers to Use a Rule to Make a Word
Vocabulary
This week, the vocabulary work is a bit different. We are focusing on compound words. These are words that have been used together so often that they became one word, with an identity all of its own, a sort of baby word – isn’t that sweet?
Next week – Non-Verbal Reasoning, Verbal Reasoning, Vocab