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Working on your own mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Working on your own mathematics

...mathematics, focuses on your initial encounters with research. It invites you to think about how perceptions of mathematics have influenced you in your prior learning, your teaching and the attitudes of learners...This free course, Working on your own mathematics, focuses on your initial encounters with research. It invites you to think about how perceptions of...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Exploring mathematics: a powerful tool
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring mathematics: a powerful tool

...mathematics help us to understand the world around us? The tracks on this album take us to Antarctica, Hong Kong and New Zealand to find out how mathematicians work with scientists and biologists to create mathematical models, and how collaborations like these can help decipher and predict a range of natural phenomena. We learn how the 17th Century saw the birth of one of...
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Audio 49 mins
Online mathematics discovery centre
Science, Maths & Technology

Online mathematics discovery centre

...Mathematics is important across many disciplines: science, medicine, engineering, technology, communications, AI and Big Data, finance, economics and more. It is a fundamental tool enabling us to analyse and comprehend the world around us, and to solve some of the most urgent problems facing society in today’s complex world. Maths is a varied and broad subject which...
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Free online Mathematics courses
Education & Development

Free online Mathematics courses

Discover these free Mathematics courses on OpenLearn...[university ready - white back ] This resource is part of the University Ready hub. Find more resources like this on the hub homepage.
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Let’s Talk About Uni – a podcast about real student experiences
Education & Development

Let’s Talk About Uni – a podcast about real student experiences

...podcast 'Let's Talk About Uni' with a set of earphones.] Choosing to go to university is a big step, so it’s only natural to wonder if it is right for you or have some doubts. Maybe you think you’re not good enough or worried about fitting in? Maybe you’re concerned about money or overwhelmed by the application process? Let’s Talk About Uni is a podcast dedicated...
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Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast

...podcast explore the practice, its lifelong impact on women and girls, and the safeguarding responses needed across health, social care and education...Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a complex, abusive, cultural, and ritualistic harmful practice performed on millions of women and girls worldwide with many more at risk. It is a major source of concern globally,...
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Audio 5 mins
‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining
Health, Sports & Psychology

‘Making Food Allergies Your Business’ Podcast Series on safer dining

...podcast series have been created to help those working in the food service industry learn more about food allergies and encourage them to think differently about how they can make more inclusive practices to support those with food allergies to eat out of home safely. Change starts with us! One person at a time! Be the change others need! The contents of this podcast...
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Audio 2 hrs
Decolonising the Curriculum through the History of Mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Decolonising the Curriculum through the History of Mathematics

...mathematics curriculum...Transcript Much of the mathematics taught at undergraduate level is named for, or attributed to, male European mathematicians of the nineteenth century. This helps to reinforce the mistaken notion that mathematics is a white male preserve. Since there is little room in Open University mathematics teaching to include the broader and more nuanced...
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