While social distancing, face masks, closing of “non-essential” business were all towards an effort to “flatten the curve” and lesson the immediate effect of the coronavirus, we want to help minimize and possible eliminate the sides effects of these efforts, the primary one being education or the lack of over the past few months. The next posts will provide more ways to help prevent the covid slide over the next few months before September 2020 and the new school year starts. We will offer examples, tips, resources and more.
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Let’s look at the numbers of women studying mathematics and STEM related subjects. We’ll also look women in STEM related jobs, how many, how much they earn and some of the possible reasons why there are not more than there are. We will also look at some positives. Women in STEM careers do earn 35% more than women in non-STEM careers.
Online tutoring, online teaching, online everything is all the rage now with the age of social distancing upon us. We outline how Raisemymarks undertakes an online tutoring session.
With social distancing becoming the norm, everyone is flocking to online tools, resources and services now. This including tutoring. Finding the write tools for teaching online and in particular teaching mathematics and other symbolic subjects online, is challenging. An interactive, online whiteboard is a great start. We have a short review of some of the online whiteboards we have come across and decided worth looking into.
The current practice is social distancing. But what exactly does this mean? Then there is self quarantine and social or self isolation. We try and decipher these terms. Then we try to decipher what online tutoring means. Studying and learning can’t stop and needs to continue. Learning has a minimum social aspect to it which needs to be fulfilled somehow through online means.
Pi day, March 14, is a day to celebrate the number pi. Find out more about the history of pi, where it is used in “real life”, the definition of pi; some people actually memorize the number pi to thousands of decimal places, see who the record holders are; and learn more about pi day.
Learning centres are places like Kumon, Mathnasium, Sylvan Learning Centre, Oxford Learning etc. Private, for profit institutions that students can go to after school hours for supplementary learning in subject areas they are currently or will be studying at school. In may cultures it is commonplace for children to go to school after their regular school hours.