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Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...history, studies, or market research to come up with probabilities. Here's something from a medical piece of research. 2619 men were found to have certain risk factors to do with coronary heart disease. Of those men, at the end of the 8-year study, 246 of them had suffered with heart disease. So if the total possible men that could have coronary heart disease with a risk...
Geometry
Science, Maths & Technology

Geometry

...history. From Greek vases and medieval windows to Victorian tiles and Native American decorations, symmetry has been seen as a way of achieving balance and beauty. Symmetry can be described mathematically, and is a useful concept when dealing with shapes...Geometry: 2.6 Line symmetry - Look at the shapes below. The symmetry of the shape on the left and its relationship to...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...family and employers, and on social media. Badges are a great motivation, helping you to reach the end of the course. Gaining a badge often boosts confidence in the skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So, completing this course could encourage you to think about taking other courses...Introduction and guidance: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is...
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...history, we actually found planets that don’t orbit our own Sun, that they orbit other suns, other stars that you see in the night sky. We found more than 3000 already, and that number allows us to estimate how many are out there. And so we know that around every second star out there is at least a planet because smaller planets are incredibly hard to find so there...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Wales)

...family estate. He proposes to leave one divided by two of the estate to his son, one divided by three to his daughter and one divided by six to his brother. Who gets the biggest share? Who gets the smallest share? Method When numerators of fractions are all 1, the larger the denominator of the fraction, the smaller the fraction. Looking at the example above, the fractions...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...history by becoming the first female jockey to win the Grand National on what was the 173rd running of the event, while in September 2021 Fallon Sherrock became the first woman to reach the final of a Professional Darts Corporation final. You would be right to think it is about time we started to see women and men competing on an equal footing. However, it has taken until...
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...family and friends, and how they are portrayed in the media. This can result in children developing ‘alternative frameworks’ or ‘misconceptions’. Because prior knowledge and intuitive ideas are ‘anchors’ for conceptual development (Pine et al., 2001), children need time and opportunities to explore and develop their conceptual understanding (Mooney, 2013)....
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...family may also help as they may have suggestions that you have not considered. The following case study describes a process that might help you to identify opportunities in your daily activities that could lead to a suitable topic. Case study Lucy works as a HR assistant manager for a large manufacturer of confectionery that operates at a national level. The company has...