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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...2 – 8, and less activity. It is intended to introduce you briefly to the actions, language and written methods that your learners will be familiar with...Week 1: Teaching and learning: whole numbers and decimals: Learning outcomes - By the end of this week, you will have learned how: counting forms the basis of addition subtraction is the inverse of addition to use...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...2, with the Euclidean metric. Two ellipses are isometric if and only if the lengths of their major axes are the same, and the lengths of their minor axes are the same (see Figure 1). These two criteria enable us to determine whether two given ellipses are isometric without our having to construct a specific isometry between them: we simply compare the lengths of their...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...2] Figure 2 You can continue the triangle indefinitely by following the pattern. Each row of numbers starts and ends with the number 1. Look at each pair of numbers in the last line above. For each pair, add the two numbers together and write their sum on the line below as shown. This process generates the next row of the triangle. [Figure 3] Figure 3 Activity 1: Pascal's...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...2 (Florence), p. 69–124. Chatzidakis, M. (1974b) ‘Les débuts de l’école Crétoise et la question de l’école dite Italogreque’, in Μνημόσυνον Σ. Αντωνιάδη (Venice), p. 169–211. Chaztidakis, M. (1977) ‘La peinture des ‘madonneri’ ou ‘vénetocrétoise’ et sa destination’, in H.-G. Beck, M. Manoussakas, and A. Pertusi (eds.)...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Education & Development

A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu

...2-hour rehearsal during the afternoon for servers and choirs in the Cathedral on Saturday 6 September. Dean King described this occasion: “the final dress rehearsal in September 1986 found me in the pulpit trying to get order out of a vast mitred and garrulous ecclesiastical family, amidst which, mercifully, three Japanese Archbishops and four Orthodox Arhimandrites sat...
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Alan Turing: Life and legacy
Science, Maths & Technology

Alan Turing: Life and legacy

...2. This collection examines Turing’s troubled personal life, the significance of his role at Bletchley Park, his ideas on artificial intelligence and finally examines what his legacy should be... Alan Turing: Reflections on his personal life Professor Timothy Chappell touches upon key moments in Alan Turing's life. Alan Turing: The code breaker Professor Timothy...
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Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...2. To make concrete, the instructions are ‘use sand and cement in the ratio three to one’. This means If you have 30 kg of cement, then you need 90 kg of sand. The conversion rates between currencies or different units are often easier to remember as ratios. Many people remember that the ratio of distance in miles to the same distance in kilometres is five to eight....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...the ones that are controlled with reproduction. So the pill is the female pill. WOMAN 2 We still don't have a male pill. WOMAN 1 We still don't have a male pill. And if we did, would we trust them to take it? That's the kind of argument. So let's trust the women to do it because we know the women are reliable, kind of thing. And because we embody the child as the child grows, then naturally, we're the one who then ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs