While on your walks, bike rides or runs this summer, take some time to track some data. Your distance traveled, time to travel and more. We’ll look at conversion between units and speed both with imperial and metric units.
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The current social distancing and social isolation is slowly leading to a new normal. This new normal includes many aspects: social, work, learning/education, family. It is amazing how much that was in person is being attempted online especially in the instructional and educational industry. This doesn’t just include formal education but also self education, personal interest, certifications and more.
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.
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.