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- Main idea
- The central point a text makes about its topic. It is often stated in the opening or closing sentence and is supported by details throughout the text.
- Inference
- A conclusion reached by combining clues in the text with the reader's background knowledge. The idea is implied rather than stated directly in words.
- Fact versus opinion
- A fact can be checked or proven true. An opinion expresses a judgment or feeling and often uses evaluative words such as best, worst, or should.
- Author's purpose
- The reason a text was written, usually to inform, persuade, entertain, or instruct. Word choice and structure signal which purpose applies.
- Simile
- A figure of speech that compares two different things using the words like or as, for example as brave as a lion.
- Metaphor
- A figure of speech that states one thing is another without using like or as, for example the classroom was a zoo.
- Personification
- A figure of speech that gives human qualities or actions to non-human things, such as the wind whispered through the trees.
- Cohesion
- The way sentences and paragraphs are linked so a text flows. Devices include pronouns referring back, conjunctions, and repeated key words.
- Apostrophe for possession
- Add apostrophe plus s for a singular owner, and an apostrophe after the s for a plural owner ending in s.
- Persuasive technique: emotive language
- Word choice designed to trigger strong feelings in the reader, such as devastating or inspiring, in order to sway their opinion.
- Rhetorical question
- A question asked for effect rather than to get an answer. It prompts the reader to agree with the writer's implied point.
- Topic sentence
- The sentence, usually first in a paragraph, that states the paragraph's main point and signals what the rest of the paragraph will explain.
- Supporting detail
- A fact, example, statistic, or reason that backs up the main idea of a text or the topic sentence of a paragraph.
- Narrative structure
- The organisation of a story, typically including orientation, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
- Prefix and suffix
- A prefix is added to the start of a word and a suffix to the end; both change the word's meaning or its grammatical role.
- Synonym and antonym
- A synonym is a word with a similar meaning to another, while an antonym is a word with the opposite meaning.
- Order of operations
- Evaluate brackets first, then indices, then multiplication and division left to right, then addition and subtraction left to right.
- Adding fractions
- Rewrite the fractions with a common denominator, add the numerators, and keep the denominator the same, then simplify the result.
- Dividing fractions
- Multiply the first fraction by the reciprocal of the second fraction, that is, flip the second fraction and multiply across.
- Percentage of an amount
- Convert the percentage to a decimal by dividing by 100, then multiply by the amount, for example 15% of 80 is 0.15 times 80.
- Percentage change
- Subtract the original value from the new value, divide the change by the original value, then multiply by 100 to express it as a percentage.
- Sharing in a ratio
- Add the ratio terms to find the number of parts, divide the total by that number, then multiply by each ratio term.
- Area of a triangle
- Half of the base multiplied by the perpendicular height, written as A equals one half times base times height.
- Area of a circle
- Pi multiplied by the radius squared, written as A equals pi times r squared, where r is the distance from centre to edge.
- Circumference of a circle
- The distance around a circle, calculated as pi multiplied by the diameter, or two times pi times the radius.
- Volume of a rectangular prism
- Length multiplied by width multiplied by height, giving the amount of space the prism occupies in cubic units.
- Mean
- The sum of all values divided by the number of values. It is affected by extreme values, unlike the median.
- Median
- The middle value in an ordered data set. With an even number of values, it is the mean of the two middle values.
- Mode
- The value that appears most frequently in a data set. A set may have one mode, several modes, or no mode.
- Probability of an event
- The number of favourable outcomes divided by the total number of equally likely outcomes, always between 0 and 1 inclusive.
- Solving a linear equation
- Apply the same operation to both sides to isolate the variable, undoing addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division step by step.
- Substitution into expressions
- Replace each variable with its given number and evaluate using the order of operations to find the expression's value.