"SCIENCE AND EDUCATION IN THE MODERN WORLD:
CHALLENGES OF THE XXI CENTURY"
NUR-SULTAN, KAZAKHSTAN, JULY 2019
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the differences in how the British and Americans write and say dates, and confusion over
whether Sunday or Monday is the first day of the week.
11. Decimals Difficulties students have with decimals in English include having to say
―point two oh‖ rather than ―point twenty‖ as in many languages, and mixing up commas and
decimals points.
12. Times This can actually be introduced much earlier if you stick to the ―twelve thirty
five a.m.‖ method of telling times. More difficult things you can tackle at this later stage include
―past/to‖ (in some languages ―half‖ is ―half to‖ instead of ―half past‖), ―quarter‖ and ―half‖,
―five past‖ but ―three minutes past‖ etc. You can play the same number adding race and memory
game (but with the 12 flashcards face down in a circle) as with Days, Months and Dates above.
13. Fractions Fractions lead on quite nicely from time or ordinal numbers as some are
the same (―half‖ and ―quarter‖ are the same as for times and ―third‖, ―fifth‖, ―sixth‖ etc as the
same as ordinals). You can revise percentages and decimals at the same time as introducing
fractions by getting students to convert between them or by putting them all into a trivia numbers
quiz.
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