Irina2024-12-03T23:22:46+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, All Categories
A huge portion of the human population has a poor perception of mathematics. They often find it too difficult, very hard to understand, and most of all, highly impractical. Most students do not see any real-life application, especially if they are not choosing a profession that involves maths. ..
Irina2022-11-16T22:52:14+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, All Categories
According to TV shows and movies, making a mess and doing science seems to go hand in hand. One way things can go particularly awry is when bumping occurs. 1. What is bumping in chemistryChemists define bumping as a phenomenon where boiled homogenous solutions superheat and once ..
Irina2022-10-31T17:25:15+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, All Categories, Coaching, Mentoring & Reflection, Starting Tutoring
1. Introduction Most teachers choose teaching as a career for altruistic reasons (TALIS 2018). It's a simple motive - looking for ways to support the younger generation and help build a better future. All of us can understand that. However, the picture becomes more complex once we take ..
Markus Curry2022-10-31T17:16:54+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, All Categories
The whole world speaks English, doesn’t it? On average, Americans tend to believe half the people in the world speak English. At least, that’s what the now well-known Harrison report found in 1998. Wherever you go, someone will understand you if you speak English. There are so ..
Markus Curry2022-11-16T22:53:39+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, All Categories, Student Advice
The averages in mathsThere are many “averages” in statistics, and the three most common are the mean, median, and mode. When you are asked to “find the average” of a set of numbers, you are commonly looking for the arithmetic mean. The mean definition is the calculated central ..
Markus Curry2022-11-16T23:03:31+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, All Categories
There was not necessarily an inventor of physics, and nobody invented physics either. It was always around us, and as long as people wondered about the world around them, discoveries were going to be made. That’s what scientists do; they make discoveries. It is easy to imagine someone ..
Markus Curry2022-11-16T22:35:30+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, All Categories
Chemistry is one of the most important branches of science. While it has an unfortunate reputation as being a bit of a dull field of science, that reputation could not be more incorrect! Most interesting and cool things can be explained by chemistry. From fireworks to rockets being ..
Markus Curry2022-10-31T19:52:35+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, All Categories, Senior & High School Learning, Study Habits
Everything around us can be explained through science, and oft the definition is far more complex than we might realise. We might jump up and down, or push a friend on the arm, and we know what is going to happen, but we may not understand what are ..
Markus Curry2022-10-31T19:56:01+11:00Posted in About Education and Learning, All Categories, Concentration & Focus, Motivation & Interest
Biology is the study of life, and of everything living (and non-living) around us. The word “biology” literally means the study of life. The Greek root word “bio” means life, and the root word “logy” means to study. Biology is the most interesting and far-reaching science that ..
Markus Curry2024-06-24T14:56:37+10:00Posted in About Education and Learning, All Categories
English is actually a West Germanic language. It was first spoken in England around the year 500. However, England is not the only English-speaking country. It is spoken in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and a number of Caribbean nations. There are ..
