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Teaching mathematics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...data in a sensible way can make data collection and analysis much more straightforward. Below you will see a grouped frequency table which could be used to investigate how many DVDs the learner’s classmates own. Table 3 How many DVDs do you own? NUMBER OF DVDS TALLY FREQUENCY 0–5 6–10 11–20 21–40 Over 40 Activity 4 Reflecting Timing: Allow 5 minutes Did you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...data he had collected. In doing so, Humboldt turned his back on the prevalent religious explanations for phenomena seen in nature and instead sought process-based scientific explanations for the patterns he saw in his observations. Such a quantitative approach allowed him to investigate how Earth’s surface temperature varies with height, how heat and material is...
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Article 20 mins
What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?
Nature & Environment

What can parasites on Arctic shrews tell us about climate change?

...data from decades-old preserved shrews. Advances in genomics technology allowed the researchers to use the shrews’ DNA to understand past distributions, population sizes, and responses to environmental change. They also recreated the preserved shrews’ diets and parasite communities for comparison with those of modern shrews. “Little did the scientists from back then...
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Article 5 mins
Foreign interference?
Digital & Computing

Foreign interference?

...data to move between computers in your household such as sending a video to your television or games console, or backing up a file to a networked hard disk, or sending a document to your network printer; whilst the router directs traffic from your computer to the wider internet. The alert mentions that attacks have been made against all types of router – from those used...
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Article 5 mins
Speed of Arctic changes defies scientists
Nature & Environment

Speed of Arctic changes defies scientists

...data-sparse regions in the world because of its remoteness and previous inaccessibility. “Lack of data and forecasts in the Arctic does impact on the quality of weather forecasts in other parts of the world.” That’s a worry which is echoed at the other end of the planet. A study led by Dr Julie Jones, from the department of geography at the University of Sheffield,...
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Article 10 mins
Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University
Digital & Computing

Unmasking inequalities: what COVID-19 revealed about the degree awarding gap at The Open University

...data and held in-depth focus groups with tutors and student support stakeholders. What we uncovered reaffirmed existing disparities – but also revealed opportunities for lasting change. [Female college student studying in the library] The numbers tell a clear story. Across both academic years we studied (2019/20 and 2020/21), ethnic minority students had consistently...
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Article 5 mins
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...analysis and cause and effect diagrams to explore problem areas generate simple matrix diagrams to relate objectives to strategies name and describe the chief roles various people can assume relating to proposals and projects relate all these roles to the process of organisational planning explain different views of quality and show that a structured approach to planning...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

...analysis and description understand the difficulties in ensuring that reflection leads to learning and begin to develop some strategies to ensure reflection supports development...Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner: 1 Difficulties with learning to teach - Learning from your experience in schools is central to your ITE and your subsequent professional...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs