This article is a follow-up to the article “Should the Teaching of Mathematics in Secondary Schools be Resource Based?” it will detail my experience in setting up such a centre in the secondary school where I was head of the Mathematics department. I was appointed at a time in Queensland […]
Lisa R. Parker
Get Your Ex Boyfriend Back – Discover How to Use Reverse Psychology to Win Your Ex Boyfriend Back!
If you want to get your ex boyfriend back a little reverse psychology may be what you need to win your ex boyfriend back. Now this may sound complicated but in reality it really isn’t. These reverse psychology tips will help you get your ex boyfriend to pay attention you […]
View The Night Sky With A Celestron Telescope
Many are interested in the night sky and some even dream of exploring outer space. However, for most of us the closest we will ever get to seeing space up close is through a telescope. One of the best manufacturers of telescopes out there is Celestron. They have been producing […]
Myths of Sign Language Debunked
Myth One: Sign language is just gestures. It’s not a language at all. There is evidence that early humans started communicating in gestures. Later, the gestures developed into a proto language and then a full-blown language. Spoken language could have been developed in a similar fashion. For example, different grunts […]
What Makes a Good Translation?
There’s of course no absolute answer as to what makes a “good” or “bad” translation. In some sense, a good translation is one that can be done to the available budget whilst fulfilling its purpose. However, there are occasions when text quality is the prevailing factor: a well written, readily […]
The Renaissance and Synergetic Environmental Science
Buckminster Fuller and Sir C P Snow warned that the existing unbalanced understanding of the second law of thermodynamics was accelerating civilisation toward global disaster. To prevent that disaster, modern science needed to be reunited with the Classical Greek Era’s Humanities’ life science. A question arises, is it possible for […]
The Different Types of Programming Languages – Learn the Basics
The progression of computer programming languages was made possible by the programmer’s search for efficient translation of human language into something that can be read and understood by computers. The languages generated, called machine code, have high levels of abstraction, which hide the computer hardware and make use of representations […]
Psychic Source Review: 5 Reasons Why Telephone Psychic Readings ROCK
What are psychic readings by phone really like? Is the image of the late night “infomercial” psychic accurate….or is that just a bad stereotype we’d ALL like to forget? Are networks like Psychic Source as accurate as they promise, or do all readers just make good guesses and hope for […]
What Skills Should a Teacher of Mathematics Teach His/Her Students?
Before the advent of universal secondary education, the mathematics teacher had a select group of students who were most likely, in terms of Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences, maths-logic thinkers. So there was no real need for the Mathematics teacher to change the pedagogue away from “chalk and talk” and lots of […]
Biospheres: Reproducing Planet Earth
Dorion Sagan’s 1990 paperback Biospheres: Reproducing Planet Earth (McGraw-Hill Publishing, ISBN 0-553-28883-0) does more than deliver a unique vision of the planet’s life support system. It also challenges the traditional view of humanity as the dominant feature of life on Earth. Perhaps that is no less than should be expected […]