Algebra.help - Simplifying expressions/equations with exponents
Follow this lesson to review basic exponent manipulation. Worksheets, further lessons, and lists of resources are also available. This resource is part of the Teaching Quantitative Skills in the Geosciences collection. http://serc.carleton.edu/quantskills/
Learning simulation discussion
Kevin Stirling, Lecturer in Simulation at the Clinical Skills Centre, University of Dundee, being interviewed by Paul Maharg. This interview took place at the UKCLE OER/simulation learning event at the University of Edinburgh, 19/05/10.
Calling time on binge drinking
In this podcast, Dr Martin Hagger explains how an innovative psychological approach could help reduce one of Europe’s most serious health risks.
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Dr Martin Hagger
Tackling Binge Drinking with pen and paper in the workplace: Science fiction or psychological fact?
Slave History of Charleston
The old slave quarters of the Aiken family reveal many stories of slave life and culture in Charleston in the 19th century. Ironworking and the ability to cultivate rice are two of the many technical skills the slaves brought to the United States, contributing to Charleston's economic and rich cultural development. (05:28)
Conversations, questions, and answers for a beginning teacher
A kindergarten teacher begins her career with an excellent support network.
Believe it or not! Reporting on amazing animals
A visual and oral presentation of an "animal report" can engage students' interest and develop their artistic and visual literacy skills.
Alternative discussion formats: a public relations campaign
By creating a PR campaign for a historical or literary figure, students can practice a wide range of thinking skills.
Computer Skills Assessment Test
The CSAT is used mainly for employers who wish to evaluate a person's knowledge on computer systems but students and individuals can use this as a self-assessment on computer skills. It contains questions on the various components of the computer, popular and practical Microsoft office applications like word, powerpoint, and excel. This exam also includes a section on using the internet and email. Co-author of this exam is Lee Steven Zantua.
Grade 4 Math Revision Test I
This module revises a variety of mathematical skills: basic operations, weights, measures and money are all revised. Some emphasis is placed on applied maths, and especially on introductory fractions.
Brainteaser 1
Sixty-one questions taken from the areas of 'language and reasoning', 'mathematical skills', 'space and logic', 'general knowledge'.
Lunch Poems: Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian is the author or co-author of 14 books of poetry, including most recently My Life in the Nineties and The Fatalist, as well as the award-winning My Life. Poetry Flash has described My Life as a work that has "real, almost hypnotic power, obvious intelligence, and [is] astonishingly beautiful." Hejinian teaches in the UCB English Department. Her critical writings were published in The Language of Inquiry from UC Press. She has been the editor of Tuumba Press and co-editor of Poetics
Institute of Industrial Relations 60th Anniversary Program
Globalization and Labor's Response
Moderator: Katie Quan
Speaker: Richard Walker
Discussants: Clair Brown, James Lincoln
The Immigration Debate: New Research and Policy Proposals
Moderator: Steven Pitts
Speaker: Steven Raphael
Discussants: Irene Bloemraad, Maria Echaveste
The Labor Movement: Organizing California's Future
Moderator: Carol Vendrillo
Speakers: Tom Rankin, Kim Voss
Discussants: Veronica Carrizales, Carol Zabin
Public Policies for a Better California
Moderator: Michael Reich
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Reading, grammar, culture: Basel, city on the Rhine
You practice your reading skills and learn about the city Basel. You practice the declension of articles and adjectives.
Listening, vocabulary: What are you going to do?
You practice your listening skills and vocabulary in relation to what you do in your free time and for sport.
Berkeley Writers at Work: Michael Pollan
Pollan reads from his work, is interviewed about his writing process, and answers questions from the audience.
Michael Pollan is Knight Professor of Journalism at the Graduate School and director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism. He is a contributing writer at the "New York Times Magazine", and the author of three books: "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World"; "A Place of My Own"; and "Second Nature". For many years he served as Executive Editor of
Inside the SPHE Classroom
Outlines the desired relationship with students in the SPHE classroom, group leadership skills for teachers, setting ground rules and forming students into groups.
Listening
Lesson plan involving short experiential exercises during which the students, working in pairs, learn the skills involved in listening.
Al Cinema
Worksheet with keywords and a short form to fill out once a favorite film has been selected. Excellent for developing oral discussion skills in the area of cinema.
Derivation of Knowledge Structures for Distributed Learning Objects
Knowledge space theory (Doignon & Falmagne, 1985; Albert & Lukas, 1999; Doignon & Falmagne, 1999) offers a rigorous and efficient formal framework for the construction, validation, and application of e-assessment and e-learning adaptive systems.
This theory is at the basis of some existing e-learning and e-assessment adaptive systems in the U.S. and in Europe. Such systems are based on a fixed and local domain of knowledge, where fixed means that the domain does not change in time and local ref
The proving process within a dynamic geometry environment
Proof and proving have been objects of investigation from the point of view of mathematics and mathematics education for the past few years. Historical and epistemological studies show that proof is a crucial activity within mathematical practice. Didactical studies show that students encounter many difficulties when approaching proving in the classroom. Research at a cognitive level has developed frameworks interpreting students' difficulties. Studies concerned with the use of new technologies
