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Teaching secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Teaching secondary mathematics

...statistical understanding that allows learners to test and weigh up many political claims and can develop an understanding of probability that assists learners in making sense of risk, chance and prediction. By working mathematically students can build up a cognitive toolbox that can help them function as a full member of a modern, democratic society. The reason that many...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...statistics. The government wants the teacher–pupil ratio in schools to be increased to one teacher to thirty pupils or less. The birth rate has fallen: the ratio of children to women of child bearing age has gone down. It used to be 2.4 to 1, and now it is 1.9 to 1. Predictions for the ratio of working adults to retired adults is disturbing. Predictions are, that by...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...statistical process control in manufacturing, argue that well-managed work processes must be fully documented, with clearly defined control points. Managers can improve a process, they believe, only if they first measure it with accuracy and assure its stability. After improvement, continuous monitoring is required to maintain the gains and ensure that the process...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...statistical tests. The details of these are beyond the scope of this course, but they are essential in scientific investigation. In principle, statistical tests use mathematics to tell the likelihood that the results you see occur just by chance. If the mathematics suggest that the results are indeed just chance, you cannot draw any conclusions from them. If, however, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...statistical analysis to reveal patterns in the ciphertext, which can be used to identify naturally occurring language patterns in the corresponding plaintext. This method relies on exploiting the relative frequencies of letters. In the English language, for example, E is the most frequently occurring letter with a probability of about 0.12. This is followed by the letter...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...statistics #FunFact – or ‘did you know?’ Welcoming new starters. In the next section, you’ll move on to look at where you promote your brand and the impact that might have on your organisation’s future diversity...Week 6: Diversity and inclusion in recruitment and career progression: 1.2 Where do you promote your brand? - Where you promote your brand can also...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST) Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...Statistics about the percentage of organisations that have identified breaches or attacks in the last 12 months, broken down by business type] Figure 1 Percentage of organisations that have identified breaches or attacks in the last 12 months Large-scale cyber security breaches often make the headlines but about 70% of organisations are keeping their worst security...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...statistics, it might be worth looking at what we think is meant by the term ‘rurality’. Often when we think of ‘rural’ we tend to perhaps equate it with ‘the countryside’, or ‘landscape’, or ‘nature’, or other similar general terms. Perhaps we might think about ‘quality of life’, a slower pace, stronger communities. We might think about some things...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs