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Squares, roots and powers
Science, Maths & Technology

Squares, roots and powers

...family that she might like to have to stay. She replied that she would like to have her two daughters the following week, so four bags of rice then would be a great help. The king agreed to this and suggested that she might like to think of having more of her family to stay. He said he would be prepared to double the number of bags he gave her each week. At this point his...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...family to takes these risks, but would we want to consume sport as spectators if we knew that it was routinely underpinned by doping. I think one just marginal comment to this is that although many families would withdraw their children or discourage their children from participating in sport if it involved taking drugs there are plenty of examples of parents doing the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Getting started with Chinese 1
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 1

...family and friends; let them know you have decided to start learning Chinese and they can help you when you practise what you have been learning, or leave you in peace when you need to study. After completing this course, you will be able to: say hello and goodbye and thank people in Mandarin Chinese respond to greeting and thanks use personal pronouns including the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...family of change that I think has been the most impactful in policing is definitely in the kind of digital and technological arena. And when I think about this, I kind of conceive it as being about the augmentation of policing. So innovations like ANPR, body worn video, the ability to process big data, and to be able to turn that to an investigative purpose, or to enhance...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...families may feel, or what should be done in response to what has happened. In The Sociological Imagination (1959), Mills states that the sociological imagination includes ‘a quality of mind’ that offers ‘an understanding of the intimate realities of ourselves in connection with larger social realities’ (p. 15). ‘The sociological imagination enables us to grasp...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...trees versus the ice caps. Those numbers will be different for each of those things. It’s just been a useful, simple story to tell that we can try to move on to then how do we avoid that target? RH: It’s fascinating with an issue like climate change how science has become so contested, so fought over, so brought into disrepute in some ways and lauded in other ways....
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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...tree had another use than for apples, and corn another than for meal, and the ball of the earth, than for tillage and roads: that these things bore a second and finer harvest to the mind, being emblems of its thoughts, and conveying in all their natural history a certain mute commentary on human life. Shakespeare employed them as colors to compose his picture. He rested...
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Article 15 mins
Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...trees were in the way? goats could fly? the area the goat could cover was specified (what length rope or what particular circumstances?). The students can be involved by choosing which constraint they explore or adding to the list of constraints. By working in this way, ‘standard’ and routine problems can be transformed into something that asks for creative ideas and...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs