During the build-up to the eleven plus examination next year
some parents may feel, at times, a little overwhelmed by the sheer volume of
eleven plus preparation. There are books to buy, papers to work through, home
work to be done and exercises to be completed. How do parents keep track of it
all?
The `Advanced Course on Eleven Plus’ may help. Of course all
parents in the know call this `Pace’. We know that anagrams have been used for
many years. Most parents will remember: “The sum on the square on the
hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.”
Pythagoras, apparently, postulated this well-known mathematical theory and he
also used anagrams in his teaching. When parents use the anagram `PACE’, they
know they are following a rich tradition!
PACE requires basic familiarity with a spread-sheet.
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Topic
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Type of Data
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Date
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Mathematics
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Fractions to Decimals
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20/10/2012
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Revision of Area
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21/10/2012
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Work on 10 questions from Paper 2
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23/10/2012
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A different use of the spread sheet could be to display key
data pictorially.
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Paper
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Raw Score
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Percentage
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Paper 3
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23
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42
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Paper 6
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56
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78
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Paper 7
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34
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56
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Your Eleven Plus exercise with your resident child genius?
1.
Draw the graph
2.
Complete the labelling.
3.
Discuss why a pie graph is called a pie graph.
4.
Ask if the data could be shown differently.
5.
Remind all concerned about Pythagoras
6.
Chat about the part that anagrams play in verbal
reasoning
Take your completed Pace exercise to your
friend’s house and discuss progress. Try not to spend too long agonising about
the eleven plus. As you know `All He Eon’ is approaching and a discussion on costumes and
food is far more important.
