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Everyday maths 1 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Wales)

...children’s birthday party and splitting the bill in a restaurant. Addition (+) is used when you want to find the total, or sum, of two or more amounts. Subtraction (−) is used when you want to find the difference between two amounts or how much of something you have left after a quantity is used. For example, if you want to find out how much change you are owed after...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Rounding and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Rounding and estimation

...children 4.833 3333 biscuits each. Similarly, an answer which suggests you can afford to take 10.134 people on an outing is not very sensible. When you get a mathematical answer, you need to interpret the answer within the context of the original problem and round your answer appropriately for the situation. So if you could afford to take 10.134 people on the trip, you...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?
History & The Arts

Why are people upset about the Stonewall Movie?

...research and realize how incredibly frustrating it has been for the trans community to experience this erasure, especially after being dumped from legislation that benefited the LG and not the T. That is, there’s a history to the history. I think I’m most disturbed by the idea that the director and screenwriter were surprised by this backlash and calls for a boycott....
Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does cancer treatment increase the risk of severe COVID-19 and why?

...research is needed to understand the relative COVID-19 risk of patients exposed to different immunotherapies. Stem cell transplant and COVID-19 Blood forming cells in the bone marrow can become depleted by radiotherapy or chemotherapy. Stem cell transplants are used to restore blood-forming stem cells. After a stem cell transplant, patients are more at risk of becoming...
Three weeks in June and one night in November
Society, Politics & Law

Three weeks in June and one night in November

...research and clinical trial networks; make it significantly harder to recruit health staff at all levels; harm the UK’s place in a web of pan-European public health institutions that have taken over 40 years to develop; and increase supply costs to the NHS due to a weakening pound. It’s also plain that the Brexiteers cannot be trusted with the NHS. But perhaps the...
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...centre of one atom to the centre of another. Figure 4 illustrates this for a simple plane of identical atoms – fully three-dimensional networks are more realistic but less easy to draw. [Figure 4] Figure 4 Atoms in a solid can be represented as spheres, arranged in planes as a component of some three-dimensional configuration What happens if we try to force the atoms...
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...Research Reports by the Hadley Centre (the UK's Government centre for climate change science), 2003 to 2005.) There is another reason why global climate change is difficult to deal with, and that is the length of time most greenhouse gases persist in the atmosphere, which for carbon dioxide and most other greenhouse gases is of the order of a hundred years. This means...
Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

...Research Program (NURP)/NOAA © OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP)/NOAA Figure 2 A black smoker At certain points, sea water penetrates cracks in the ocean floor and comes into contact with the lava produced by active volcanoes. The heated water, full of minerals from the rock, rises rapidly to create plumes of hot water called hydrothermal vents...