Struggling with WASSCE Maths? Stop guessing. Letβs fix the gap step by step.
Struggling with WASSCE Maths? Stop guessing. Letβs fix the gap step by step.
π Part of the Algebra Clinic: every lesson on this topic, in one place. Quick answer: expand when you must remove brackets, or the question says expand. Factorise when you need a product: to solve a quadratic equal to zero,β¦
π Part of the Algebra Clinic: every lesson on this topic, in one place. Quick answer: solve a linear equation by keeping both sides balanced. Clear the brackets, clear fractions by multiplying every term, collect the unknown on one side,β¦
π Part of the Algebra Clinic: every lesson on this topic, in one place. Quick answer: the algebra mistakes that cost SHS students the most marks are adding unlike terms, losing negative signs, expanding brackets carelessly, writing (a+b)^2 as a^2+b^2,β¦
π Part of the Algebra Clinic: every lesson on this topic, in one place. Quick answer: an expression is a group of terms with no equals sign, such as 3x+5. You can simplify it, but you cannot solve it. Anβ¦
π Part of the Find Your Maths Gap: every lesson on this topic, in one place. Quick answer: most people who feel “bad at maths” are not. One earlier skill (often fractions, negative numbers or reading the question) was neverβ¦
π Part of the Find Your Maths Gap: every lesson on this topic, in one place. Quick answer: a good maths diagnostic test asks about one skill per question and looks at how you went wrong, not just your score.β¦
π Part of the Find Your Maths Gap: every lesson on this topic, in one place. Quick answer: the mistakes that follow students from JHS to SHS are mostly basic: fractions, negative numbers, the order of operations and reading wordβ¦
π Part of the Find Your Maths Gap: every lesson on this topic, in one place. Quick answer: you are guessing if you choose formulas by memory, change signs without knowing why, or cannot explain a step. Understanding means youβ¦
π Part of the Find Your Maths Gap: every lesson on this topic, in one place. Quick answer: you really understand a topic if you can close the book and solve a question alone, explain why each step works, andβ¦
π Part of the Find Your Maths Gap: every lesson on this topic, in one place. Quick answer: understanding a lesson in class is not the same as being able to do it alone. Most learners who “understand in classβ¦