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Simple coding
Digital & Computing

Simple coding

...maths that make the algorithm work is beyond the scope of this tutorial. Activity 10 Translate the algorithm below to Python. One instruction was already translated for you. Don’t forget to test your code. Note that for the loop to end, the condition must become false, i.e. both variables n and m have the same value. Therefore it doesn’t matter which one you...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...maths and calculations that you have to do by hand, it can sometimes add another layer of complexity to learning statistics. Again, these tutorials have been developed to help alleviate any concerns you make have about using the program itself by. Each tutorial interactively guides you through the SPSS program, taking you through the basics of what the program to do, with...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...de-motivating, or it might be something more general like how to organise group work effectively. Define the purpose and clarify what form the intervention might take. This will involve consulting the literature and finding out what is already known about this issue. Plan an intervention designed to tackle the issue. Collect empirical data and analyse it Plan another...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Teaching mathematics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...maths, which includes multiplication and division, helps learners to form the appropriate concepts. Many successful mathematicians do not know their tables by rote. However, they do know how to work them out as needed...Week 1: Teaching and learning: whole numbers and decimals: Developing mental arithmetic with your learners - Practise frequently with your learners. The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...maths at school, I didn’t like physics, I didn’t like science at school,’ and particularly in the UK actually we’re funnily enough sometimes proud of, ‘Oh, I was terrible at maths at school, terrible at science’ but what I think is then lost, and particularly if people aren’t engaging with the amazing popular culture of science that’s out there, lots of...
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Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...de Commynes remarked that ‘most of the people are foreigners’. And this perception of a society in which northerners (Flemish and Germans), Dalmatians, Greeks, Muslims, Jews and mainland Italians mingled with indigenous Venetians was sharpened in the sixteenth century by the Venetian writer Francesco Sansovino: ‘Peoples from the most distant parts of the world...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...de Bernières as they talk about their own experience of writing. And you’ll have the chance to share comments and ideas with your fellow writers while sampling how established authors such as Toni Morrison and Graham Greene have written and presented their characters. By the end of the course you’ll have learned tricks such as using a journal to generate ideas, the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...de Fermat, about a problem connected with a dice game is now considered a seminal moment in this development. The problem in question, known as the ‘problem of points’, concerns the fair division of stakes should a dice game be interrupted before a player has won. [This is a composite of two portraits, of the mathematicians Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat.] Figure...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs