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Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...mathematics classroom over the course of one academic year. Hradsky, D. and Forgasz, R., (2022) ‘Possibilities and problems of using drama to engage with First Nations content and concepts in education: A systematic review’ The Australian Educational Researcher, pp. 1–25. (Read the section Drama-based pedagogies from p. 10–12 and then from pp. 14–21. Starting at...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Earthquakes
Science, Maths & Technology

Earthquakes

...mathematical scale involving measurements and calculations on paper. 'They seem to think it is some sort of instrument or apparatus. Every year they come by wanting to look at my scale', he once said in an interview. Richter borrowed the term 'magnitude' from astronomy, in which he had an amateur interest. In astronomy the brightness of stars is measured on a magnitude...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...mathematics. Concepts such as linear algebra, calculus, probability, and statistics play a crucial role in understanding how machine learning algorithms learn from data and make predictions. These mathematical concepts help in optimising the performance of the model, understanding the relationships within the data, and making accurate predictions. This draughts game is a...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)

...mathematical operations and how they apply to real life situations. Then you will encounter fractions and percentages which are incredibly useful when trying to work out the price of an item on special offer. Additionally, you will learn how to use ratio – handy if you are doing any baking – and how to work with formulas. Throughout the course there will be various...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...mathematical skills or any previous experience of studying the subject. There are no special requirements for this course but you may like to find a simple calculator in a drawer or on your mobile phone to help you with some of the maths calculations. This OpenLearn science course is produced with the kind support of Dangoor Education, the educational arm of The...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...mathematical formalism) enjoys more respect. This reflects the wide-held belief that science has to relate to numbers because only the latter imply precision. Nevertheless, it is important to highlight the fruitfulness and, often, the greater depth of understanding we can derive from qualitative procedures. Equally important, though, is that these three qualitative...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...mathematically...Over the last few decades astronomers have discovered thousands of planets orbiting stars other than the Sun – known as exoplanets. Many of these exoplanets are quite unlike anything we see in our Solar System. These include ‘hot Jupiters’ orbiting very close to their parent star and rocky ‘super Earths’ many times larger than our home planet....
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...mathematics. Techniques deal with the complexity of a system, abstracting essential aspects and representing them as models. A modelling language defines the notations used for many different techniques. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the modelling language we will use in this course. It is one of the most popular and successful standards currently adopted by the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs