If you want to do well in VCE Maths Methods then you need to have some basic Maths skills. The following are some of the basics that you might have forgotten how to do or rely on your calculator to do.
Fractions
Fractions made easy – First Steps
How to Divide a whole number by a Fraction
How to Multiply a Fraction by a whole number
How to change Fractions to Decimals using short division
Short Division – how to express remainders as Fractions
How to simplify Fractions
How to add Fractions with unlike denominators
Decimals
What Does The Decimal 0.1 Mean In Maths?
How to divide a whole number by a Decimal
How to round a Decimal to the nearest whole number
How to change Fractions to Decimals
How to do short division with a Decimal remainder
Equations
How to Transpose formulas with Square Roots
How to cross-multiply equations with variables
How to make Y the subject in a Linear equation
How to solve Literal equations for X
Indices
Negative Indices – how to change them to Positive Indices
Quadratics
How to factorise Quadratic Trinomials
Surds
What does the Square Root of a number mean?
How to add and subtract Surds
How to simplify Surds
