[Maths-Education] Not just Ratio and Proportion
Dave Hewitt
D.P.Hewitt@bham.ac.uk
Tue, 9 Oct 2001 13:44:53 +0000 [GMT]
> How about this. also from the KS3 framework (p82 of examples):
>
> Understand that:
> * Multiplication is equivalent to and is more efficient than repeated
> addition
Let me see now... circumference of a circle is pi multiplied by
diameter. If my diameter is, for example, 11.37cm, in what way
does the image of repeated addition help me with this
multiplication?
Dave.
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