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Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...multiple authors, who are not individually credited. Anyone can register and start writing immediately. This means that Wikipedia articles can be revised essentially in real-time. There is no approval process of the kind that applies to a traditional encyclopedia, where all changes are reviewed before they go live. Instead, Wikipedia relies on other volunteers to correct...
Rounding and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Rounding and estimation

...multiplication and division. You should check that you have used the right operations in the correct order. Example 8 Suppose you are one of five people going out for a meal and sharing the total bill. Your friend Val has done the accounts and shows you her calculation to check. Is she correct? £ Float from last outing + 0.40 Discount voucher for restaurant + 5.00...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...multiple proceedings was a risk, it was not a large one. Abolition would provide a wronged client with a remedy. Abolition would ‘sharpen awareness of the risks of pitching their initial views of their client’s case too high or too inflexibly’.Footnote 20 The minority, by contrast, felt that the court was not the right body to weigh up the policy arguments and...
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...multiple and shifting loyalties. On the other hand, massive movements of people on a global scale have been evident in recent years, for example the movement of Afghanis and Iraqis to Europe and elsewhere in the 1990s and early 2000s in the face of war, oppression and poverty. Such massive movements of people make the experience of indeterminate loyalties and belongings...
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...Multiplication is vexation Division is as bad The rule of three doth puzzle me And Practice drives me mad would never need to have been written had all arithmetic lessons been like the arithmetic lessons given by Charles Dodgson to his little friends. As a lecturer to his grown-up pupils he was also surprisingly lucid, and under his deft treatment the knottiest of...
Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...multiple locations in several countries and employing dozens of people in each store, as well as many more in its headquarters, warehouses and transportation fleet, would be an example of a large multinational business. And then there are many medium-sized enterprises in between. Industry sector – a fashion retailer, a hairdresser, someone running a market stall, a...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 1: bounding realities

...multiple dividends that WWP pays are substantial: a healthier ecosystem, more water at less cost, and employment for thousands in a country where opportunities to escape poverty are rare. Reference United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme, World Bank, and World Resources Institute (2001) ‘Freshwater Systems: Working for Water, Working...
Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Introduction to cyber security: stay safe online

...multiple times.] Figure 6 It’s time for you to take stock of your own safeguards against data loss, unwarranted access or malicious software. We’d also like to know a bit more about the frequency of computer crime to the average user. This survey is a series of multiple-choice questions based on your current habits. There are no right or wrong answers so you should...