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Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...public did have a say in the official names. [Described image] Figure 61 A screen grab of the BBC News website on 2 July 2013 in which Pluto’s moons make the news. See also: BBC News - Pluto moons get mythical new names. The recently discovered fourth and fifth moons of Pluto now have official names: Kerberos and Styx...Week 3: Looking closer: 3.9 The New Horizons...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...publication containing the method appeared in 1704. Leibniz then independently developed similar ideas, starting in about 1674. A manuscript that he wrote in 1675 includes the notation used in integral calculus to this day, as well as a standard rule for combining derivatives, the product rule. Leibniz’s notation for differential calculus is also still used today, as...
Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)
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Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)

...Health & Social Care How many full-time enrolments did Hair & Beauty have? Answer 49. Note how the scale goes up in 2s and the full-time component of the Hair & Beauty bar goes up to halfway between 48 and 50. How many part-time enrolments did Business Admin have? Answer 7 Approximately how many course enrolments were there in total? Answer 197 – You need to count the...
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...publication and had printed it out. The activity engaged the learners and they were all able to make a start at it. No one individual found all of the twelve pentominoes but between the whole class all twelve were found and displayed on the board. Activity 14 Preparing a lesson using pentominoes Timing: Allow 20 minutes Imagine that you are going to use the pentominoes...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Everyday maths 1
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Everyday maths 1

...public’s voting intention if there was a General Election held tomorrow the next actor to play James Bond how often we check our mobile phones people’s preference for dealing with climate change the number of grandparents with a favourite grandchild. A survey is a method of collecting data. But once you’ve collected the data, it needs to be organised and displayed...
Free course 48 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/ w/ index.php?curid=2328227 Figure 12: NASA/John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute Figure 13: Damian Peach; www.damianpeach.com Figure 14: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute - Original file from JPL Photojournal. Additional editing by Kaldari (seams removed, distortion corrected, missing...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...publication/ 229706606_Intuitive_Physics/ links/ 0f31753c6a7e3db2bc000000.pdf Figure 4 from Kabo, J. D. (2010) Seeing Through the Lens of Social Justice: A Threshold for Engineering , Figure 1, A PhD thesis submitted to the Department of Chemical Engineering, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada http://qspace.library.queensu.ca/ bitstream/ handle/ 1974/ 5521/...
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Discovering chemistry

...health. Table 1 shows typical percentages of the main constituents of the exhaust gas that emerges from a modern car engine. Table 1 The percentage by volume of the different gases in a typical car exhaust stream GAS VOLUME PER CENT nitrogen and argon 71.00 carbon dioxide 13.50 water vapour 12.50 carbon monoxide 00.68 oxygen 00.51 hydrogen 00.23 nitric oxide 00.11...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs