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96Million billion trillion - making sense of large numbers
Some hints and tricks on dealing with large numbers, including calculations involving them!
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94Why Did I Become an Accountant?
This hub enumerates the reasons why the writer decided to become an accountant.
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90How to Be Good at Mathematics
I love this question. Most people think that either you're good at mathematics or you're not.....period....end of story. But this is such a defeatist attitude, to say the least. And worse than that, it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you think...
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92How to Work Out Percentages - Some Tricks to Help You Work Out Percentages Without A Calculator
Quick tricks for find percentages without a calculator. In order to find x percent of any number the general way of doing that is to multiply the number by the percentage. Since percentage means hundredths of any number, percentages are written with the decimal point moved two places toward the left-hand side. With whole numbers the decimal point does not show, and since moving the decimal point over one place would
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92How to Calculate Tips in Your Head with Mental Math
Calculating tips in restaurants or anywhere else need not be a chore that requires paper and pencil. Even without a calculator you can find the right amount to tip your server.
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90How to calculate ratio part II: some worked examples and problems to solve
Some worked examples of problems involving ratio and proportion, followed by questions for you to try yourself
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87How to work out ratios - calculating ratios made simple
A quick "how-to" guide on solving problems involving ratios.
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92Third Grade Lesson Plans
These are some of my favorite third grade lesson plans. I have homeschooled three children. All of them but one have already graduated. I would have loved to have found free third grade lesson plans when I was homeschooling. Teaching is much easier...
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915 Tips on How to Become an Educated Person in Today’s World
To function as an educated person in today's world, you need to acquire some level of skill in the following areas: Reading, writing, calculating, thinking, and computing. Perhaps the most basic skill that any educated person has is the...
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93"Why Math is Important in our Lives" - Things to Explain to Kids Who Ask
Kids often reach a stage when they ask why learning math is important if they have no plans to go into a math-related career. Thoughts on how to answer that question are here.
