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I Have a Math exam tomorow .Im sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo nervous and REALLY Stuck on PI...Can you help or do you know a website on it. I know its 3.14 and all that but i really need some help.. also i need some help on Algebra!!!

 


Step 1:  Stop panicking and listen! Pi seems to be a difficult number because:

- It has a name 'pi'! (It's faster than saying 3.14159 ... etc.)

- It goes on forever - at least many have set off to find where it...
06/05/2009
What is 9 x 9?

The answer: 9 x 9 = 81!

The practice:
You can have fun and practice all your tables on BGfL's Mental Gym at www.bgfl.org/mentalgym

The why:
9 x 9 or 'nine times nine' means '9 lots of 9', so before times tables were thought of, people just added up 9...
Other tables tricks     BGfL Mental Gym for easy practice 28/07/2008
how do you work out the highest common factor and lowest common multiple of 44 and 72?

Interesting!

First, let's find the Highest Common Factor of 44 and 72:
Factors of 44 = numbers which go exactly into 44 ...
02/06/2008
If the equation of a straight line is y = 5x + 20, then where does the straight line passes through (0.__)?

Imagine a straight line somewhere on a graph.  The graph has an x-axis (horixontal) and a y-axis (vertical).

There are lots of points you could mark with a zero x-coordinate, such as (0,1) or (0,6) or (0, -2).  Imagine or sketch...
20/05/2008
Is it impossible to find the geometric mean of the two numbers -2 and 8?

The geometric mean is average value for a set of numbers when you multiply them and then find the nth root of the product.

For example: The geometric mean of 2 and 8:

Step 1:  product of 2 and 8 = 2 x 8 = 16
Step 2:  the...
05/03/2008
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