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John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...Division, square and cubical Extractions of great numbers, which besides the tedious expence of time, are for the most part subject to many slippery errors. I began therefore to consider in my minde, by what certaine and ready Art I might remove those hindrances. And having thought upon many things to this purpose, I found at length some excellent briefe rules to be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...division the concept of place value can be extended to decimals...Week 1: Teaching and learning: whole numbers and decimals: 1 How children develop number sense - [Set of numbers from 0 to 9] Figure 2 Set of numbers from 0 to 9 This section should help you appreciate that understanding how children develop number sense is helpful to understanding how they will learn about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...division multiplexing (OFDM) underpins fourth generation mobile communications (4G), wi-fi and broadband. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course TM355 Communications technology...Exploring communications technology: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an understanding of the principles of,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?
History & The Arts

Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?

...divisiveness and vulgarity. Not so. A quick look to the Classical world lays to rest such a naive assumption. Politics under any system of government is always a dirty business. But the Athenian political system is tied particularly closely to our own because it was – I’m tempted to say first and foremost – a spectator sport. Much of the time, meetings of the...
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Article 5 mins
From headlines to hashtags: is the FA doing enough to promote gender equality through social media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

From headlines to hashtags: is the FA doing enough to promote gender equality through social media?

...divisions by offering limited coverage of the Lionesses through their @England account. Throughout the 2022 European Championship, the Lionesses were promoted as equals to their male counterparts, in terms of quantitative coverage, from the FA via their specific Twitter account. This demonstrates a positive shift in the overall representation of women’s football on...
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Article 10 mins
Housing beyond borders
Society, Politics & Law

Housing beyond borders

...divisions and tensions surrounding who can afford to live and work in cities where rental prices are soaring, and working-class communities are being pushed out. Thinking geographically about changing places Developing the skills to understand and analyse how places are changing is a central theme running throughout the new Open University module D225 Changing geographies...
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Article 5 mins
Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change
Nature & Environment

Trees: local heroes in the fight against global climate change

...division between the Global North developed nations and the developing countries of the Global South (i.e. the G77 and China). The North identify forests as global commons, believing countries with forests should maintain them for humanity, and the South argue that the North have disproportionately contributed to deforestation through historic deforestation, colonial...
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Article 10 mins
The science of genetics
Nature & Environment

The science of genetics

...division which leads up to the formation of a fetus, and then a baby, and then an adult human being, these chromosomes are replicated and equally partitioned between each cell, so that each cell of the adult individual has the same set of chromosomes, the same set of genes - two sets of chromosomes, two copies of each gene. Along the length of DNA in each chromosome are...
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Article 10 mins