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Using a scientific calculator
Science, Maths & Technology

Using a scientific calculator

...becomes In this section we consider several different approaches that can be used to evaluate this and other more complex expressions using different functions on your calculator. While the first method – considered in Activity 9 – is probably the most straightforward for this relatively simple expression, it is useful to see how you might use other calculator...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...becoming commercially aware, it is a connected network of agents (not a simple chain) who together create the ‘added value’ an organisation generates. In developing maps of your organisation and your communication network, you have located yourself within a complex picture. Such complexity can throw up challenges and barriers to developing commercial awareness but in...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...become popular worldwide, and the historian of Paganism, Ronald Hutton, has famously described Wicca as ‘the only religion which England has ever given to the world’ (1999, p. vii). Figure 7 Witches dancing in circles around a fire performing a ritual, 1964. In this section, you are going to follow Wicca from its emergence (or re-emergence), through its growth and...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The caring manager in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The caring manager in health and social care

...becoming a grandparent or starting a job that you really wanted. All the sources of stress in the reading revolve around change – whether it is change in our personal lives or changes at an organisational and even global level. Management is yet another critical factor to take into consideration in any discussion of stress; poor management of stress can compound its...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Addysg gynhwysol: deall yr hyn a olygwn (Cymru)
Education & Development

Addysg gynhwysol: deall yr hyn a olygwn (Cymru)

...OU) (2003) ‘Thinking it through’, E243 Inclusive education: learning from each other, Llyfr 2, Milton Keynes: Y Brifysgol Agored. Y Ganolfan Astudiaethau Addysg Gynhwysol (CSIE) (2002) ‘Ten reasons for inclusion’ (poster). Ar gael yn: http://www.csie.org.uk/ resources/ ten-reasons-02.pdf (cyrchwyd 2 Hydref 2018). Y Ganolfan Astudiaethau Addysg Gynhwysol (CSIE)...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Numbers, units and arithmetic
Science, Maths & Technology

Numbers, units and arithmetic

...becomes £8.45. In the same way, any of the metric units can be converted simply by multiplying or dividing by ten, a hundred or a thousand. For example, the statement ‘1 m = 1000 mm’ tells you that to convert from metres to millimetres you multiply by 1000. The general rule when converting units is: to convert from a larger unit (e.g. metres) to a smaller one (e.g....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...become more tired as he walks, and hence gradually slow down. Then the relationship between the time that he’s been walking and his displacement is more complicated. Calculus allows you to deal with relationships like this. Calculus applies to all situations where one quantity changes smoothly with respect to another quantity. In the example above, the displacement of...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...become apparent, Western music theory does not even begin to account for the diverse range of musics in the world. Nevertheless, certain broad similarities are shared by many of these musics, including the existence of pitch systems and intervals. This section and those that follow consider the number of pitches in various pitch systems, then the intervals between those...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs