Staying home to lessen the probability of contracting the coronavirus through social distancing is great. However, the side effects of social distancing are real and can be lasting long after social distancing has been relaxed. Get outside, get fresh air, move around, play games, pick up the phone and connect with people, make the effort. Don’t leave people alone regardless of what mood they may be in.
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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.
February and black history month has come and gone. But that doesn’t mean celebrating mathematicians that made significant and notable contributions to the history of science and mathematics isn’t still important. Below is a short list of famous black mathematicians.
It is so easy to create a fake phone number, email address and more making it so much easier for scams to be created and executed. There are scams going on all over the world of different varieties. While residents of Canada may hear about them through their network and community, newcomers to the city and country do not have that network yet and may not know about the “local scams”. This may not seem like it is related to tutoring or school but, if you are new to the country and do not know what to look out for, it can be confusing when you on the receiving end of a scam. Below are a few articles with some of the more “popular” scams to keep a look out for.