It's easy to assume that a student knows the meaning of all the words used in the Year 6 SATS maths vocabulary.. ... but, just in case, here's a list of some of the more common maths terms used. These have been taken from SATS papers 2001 - 2013. I hope they are useful and please do let me know if I've missed any! Angles Angles are formed when 2 straight lines meet at a … [Read more...]
English vocabulary – Is 14000 words enough?
According to languagemonitor.com the English language incorporated its one millionth word - "Web 2.0" - at 10.22am June 10th 2009. This website tracks and acknowledges new words after they have been used 25,000 times on, predominately, social networking sites. Other contenders for the millionth word title include cloud computing, carbon neutral and the Hindi expression … [Read more...]