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As a math tutor, you encounter this topic often – especially with students in vocational training. Many ways exist to tackle percents. However, the advantage of the cross multiplication method is its usefulness in virtually any situation involving them. If …
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When you tutor French, a student might ask how to produce the accents on an English keyboard. Here are a couple of options: On a Microsoft product, every French accent has its own Alt+(4 digit code). For instance, this ç …
While enjoying this surprisingly fine summer, the math tutor recalls a definition. When I was a kid, I read in one of my math texts (it might have been grade six) that a “perfect number” is one whose factors (except itself, of …
When you tutor math, you explain radians every semester to your grade 12 students. Most people begin measuring angles in degrees. However, you can also measure an angle in radians. 1 rad≈57.3°. While degrees come from (I am told) Babylonia, …
As a math tutor, you realize that conversions from metric to imperial are part of the grade 10 curriculum. Let’s talk about a few that don’t need a calculator. Even though the (Canadian) high school student grows up in a …
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