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Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...families: trabajo (work), trabajador (worker), trabajar (to work), trabajoso (laborious), etc. grouping according to structure or use, e.g. sequence organisers: primero (first), después (later), luego (then), finalmente (lastly), etc. collocations, i.e. words that tend to go together, like un calor espantoso (a terrible heat) (Adapted from Hurd and Murphy (2005), pp....
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...history, it goes right back to that period of the 1970s we talked about and basically it was a consumer’s club where people ganged up together to protect themselves against a monopolistic oil supply and it’s gradually developed new kinds of roles. RH: But it’s a rich country’s club at the moment, mainly? JS: Yeah, it is changing quite a lot. What I would say is...
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...