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Everyday maths 1
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1

...system for decimals, can you use your rounding skills to estimate calculations using decimals? This skill would be needed in everyday life to approximate the cost of your shopping. Example: Approximations with decimals Give approximate answers to these. Round each decimal number to the nearest whole number before you calculate. 2.7 + 9.1 9.6 – 2.3 2.8 × 2.6 9.6 × 9.5...
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Free course 48 hrs
Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Note taking in relation to the Social Sciences

...system to suit your own needs, it will save you considerable time and effort in the long run. I think it is important that you develop good habits, develop a formula, which works for you, but also you should keep trying to rework and refine that process and it could be that the notes that you are taking towards the end of this course are rather different from the notes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?

...system that made sense of subsistence life in small, often isolated farming communities. “The focus was on cooperation and working together,” Kim explains. “Generally, it was a caring, sharing and giving culture. But in an urban city, it’s very competitive and achievement-focused.” For a great many, what it means to be a successful self has transformed....
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Article 15 mins
Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...Systemic Practice and Action Research, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 9–21. Cohen, L., Manion, L. and Morrison, K. (2000) Research Methods in Education, London, RoutledgeFalmer. Cognitive Acceleration through Maths Education (CAME), http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupRenderCustomPage.asp?GroupID=255682&ResourceID=3376237 (Accessed 13 September 2013). Denscombe, M. (2003) The Good...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...systems of classification. You have already learned that the key to description is observing and then communicating your observations. You have also worked with a museum’s collections database and can apply your experience the next time you use a museum website that offers public access to their collection database. Description is also the basis for comparing objects...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...system, a competitive élite and military strength. But in the space of sixty years it all went wrong in Rome. The political system collapsed into bloody civil war and the old order of a political class sharing power was replaced by one man – the emperor Augustus – monopolising power and politics. In Block 3 you study the history of Republican Rome. How the republic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...system. Kyiv fell to the Mongolians in 1240. Since then, Ukraine has often been divided and conquered, but has maintained a strong sense of its own identity and fought determinedly for independence. For example, the Cossacks, who lived on the steppes of south-eastern Ukraine, fought against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which then controlled most of Ukraine, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Composition and improvisation in cross-cultural perspective

...system in which each note of the scale is assigned a number from 1 to 5. One aspect of the system which may take a bit of getting used to is that the Sundanese assign the numbers to a descending scale, so that pitch 1 is higher than pitch 2 and so on. Similarly confusing is the fact that pitches in the higher octave are indicated by a dot beneath the number, and those in...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs