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Your answer will have four digits.

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If you use column addition, don’t forget the carry.

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When the denominators are the same, you can add the numerators.

Example: 8/11 + 5/11 = 13/11

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If you divide something by one, it doesn’t change it.

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Will the answer be less than 300? How much less?

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If you use column addition, make sure to line up the decimal points.

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The answer box is on the left, but don’t let that bother you because it makes no difference to how you solve the addition.

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You’ll need to add up 8 x 3 and 8 x 30. 8 x 30 is 10 times bigger than 8 x 3.

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Your 9 times table will come in handy here.

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Jot your working down on paper, as there will be less chance of making a mistake. Start with 7 x 4.

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If you use column subtraction, the columns should line up on the right, so the 2 is above the 4.

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62 bananas take away 38 bananas = ?

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Add 100 to both sides of the equation. The two sides will still balance, leaving the answer by itself on the left.

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The brackets mean you should do that part first.

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Another way to write this would be (4 x 3) / (6 x 5)

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Another way to write this is:  3 x 10 x 4 x 10. You can change the order, to get 3 x 4 x 10 x 10. Now it should be quite easy.

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You can’t divide 5 by 7, but you can start by dividing 58 by 7.

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When you divide a number by ten, all the digits shift one place to the right.

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When you multiply a number by 10, all the digits moved one place to the left. How many places would they need to move when you multiply by 1,000? Hint: Count the zeros.

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You can’t divide 17 into 7, so start by dividing 17 into 71. That will give you the first digit of your answer.

Jot down your method on a piece of paper. In the real test, your method may get you a mark, even if your answer is wrong.

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If you’re doing column subtraction, you’ll need to write 9 as 9.00

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Show your method on a separate sheet of paper. In the real test, if you were to make a mistake, you could still get one mark if your method was correct.

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You can’t subtract things that are different. Can you turn the quarters into eighths?

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Show your method on a separate sheet of paper. In the real test, if you were to make a mistake, you could still get one mark if your method was correct.

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When subtracting decimal numbers, it helps if both numbers have the same number of digits after the decimal point, so write 37.8 as 37.800

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You’ll need to make the denominators all the same so that you can add up the parts of the sum.

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Four bananas divided between four gives you 1 banana each. So four fifths divided by four equals…?

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Instead of trying to divide the numerator (the 5) by 2, you can multiply the denominator (the 8) by 2, for the same result.

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A percentage is a fraction of 100. Example: 30% as a fraction is 30/100. 30% as a decimal is 0.3. First, write the percentage as a fraction or a decimal, then multiply by the quantity, which is 460 in this case. Do NOT include the % symbol in your answer.

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You can’t add thirds and sixths directly together so first you need to convert them to sixths.

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A percentage is a fraction of 100. Example: 30% as a fraction is 30/100. 30% as a decimal is 0.3. First, write the percentage as a fraction or a decimal, then multiply by the quantity, which is 500 in this case. Do NOT include the % symbol in your answer.

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You can’t subtract two different things – sixths and eighths are different things – so start by finding a common denominator. One way to do that is to multiply the denominators together.

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Will the answer be greater than or less than 200?

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A percentage is a fraction of 100. Example: 25% as a fraction is 25/100. 25% as a decimal is 0.25. First, write the percentage as a fraction or a decimal, then multiply by the quantity, which is 1,000 in this case. Do NOT include the % symbol in your answer.

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You could solve this by adding up 57 and a half of 57.
Or you could think of ‘one and a half’ as ‘three divided by two’. So then the question is 3 X 57 / 2.

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Show your method on a separate sheet of paper. In the real test, if you were to make a mistake, you could still get one mark if your method was correct.