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  • David Payne, St Anne's Catholic School, Southampton
  • Tuesday, June 16, 2009
  • "Thanks for some great resources which stimulate lots of ideas.
    Could you produce a calculator activity that includes the use of brackets, powers, squaring etc to encourage students to make use of functions on a scientific calculator?"

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