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...change, working out how many packs of cakes you need for the children’s birthday party and splitting the bill in a restaurant are all examples that come to mind. [Described image] Figure 1 Fruit maths puzzle The four operations are addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. You need to understand what each operation does and when to use it and at level 2, you...

...changing money for a holiday, you may also need to work out how much currency you will get for the amount of pounds sterling you are changing. [Described image] Figure 7 Different currency notes Let’s look at an example. Example: Pounds and euros To convert between pounds and euros, the first thing you need to know is the exchange rate. Exchange rates change daily. If...

...change and using reverse percentages adding and subtracting decimals up to two decimal places solving ratio problems where the information is presented in a variety of ways understanding the order of operations and using this to work with formulas solving problems requiring calculations with common measures, including money, time, length, weight, capacity and temperature...