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Teaching mathematics, particularly to teenagers, I often meet students who have a dependence on calculators. Whilst calculators have their place in everyday life, I am of the belief t...

Mental Arithmetic - A Natural Talent or Can We All Learn To Be Good At It? Often my husband will say, "How did you get to that answer so quickly?" when adding lists of numbers. I rep...

The extent to which structural changes influence children's cognitive ability will be examined by looking at the key concepts of brain development. Many physiological processes take p...

Sexual desire is a trait which can differ vastly from one individual to another, there are certainly many contributing factors such as gender, age, one's social environment and except...

Introduction The purpose of this report is to successfully construct and justify a lesson plan tailored to a particular ACS (Academic Communication Skills) student. To do this effec...

Creating polymers with controlled length and stereo chemistry is an area where nature is currently streets ahead of science. But researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (...

In all my years of tutoring one consistent problem I come up against is a lack of basic skills - very basic skills like long mulitplication and times tables. When I ask a student for ...

How many times have I heard things like "Oh, I shoul have learnt how to play an instrument when I was younger" or "Oh, I wish I could play"? Well, guess what: I wish I could be a rock...

An article published in the Guardian, March 2015 In Bruegel`s painting The Triumph of Death, an army of skeletons cavorts on a blasted and desolated landscape: over there, the rust...

Acupuncture received a positive recommendation in the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guideline for low back pain (LBP). However, no such recomme...