#STEM teaching

[dannysciencefix]

EEF: Improving Primary Science Guidance Report

This week The Education Endowment Foundation have released its new ‘Improving Primary Science’ guidance report .The EEF say, ‘High-quality primary science teaching builds pupils’ curiosity and critical thinking, helping them to build a coherent understanding of the world around them. It’s also crucial from a social mobility point of view, opening children’s minds to the opportunities they could…

[ryan-sometimes]

I had this really terrible physics professor who was a trans woman and I found it weirdly endearing to read her reviews on the website the students at our college use to rate professors because they’re dragging her to hell and back in every review and yet none of them are misgendering her

[yeyinde]

Bluecollar worker!Reader would drive Price absolutely crazy.

[chawliekin]

and if I said that dennis’ insistence on being the breadwinner/provider despite literally being a pampered princess who dgaf about traditional roles of masculinity in every other regard (aside from ego) is because his mom only stayed with/chose frank for his wealth and dennis is highly aware that he’s difficult to love and unable to show his emotions openly so he has to be contributing something to the relationship materially in order to feel like he’s worth staying for… and mac grew up with parents who were extremely ambivalent to him and eachother so he has to overcompensate by proving his worth at every given moment and seeking praise/validation from people (and religious icons) who will never demonstrate the same amount of dedication to him but he has no idea how else to desperately keep himself close to those he loves other than by eroding himself into something they’ll approve of… dear god they’re both exactly what the other needs — someone who can’t and won’t leave them even if they try — and they don’t even see it…

[studyandsteep]

subject-specific studying: math

this is the first part of my newest series, subject-specific study tips. please enjoy & check out my other posts :)

there is no "easy" way to succeed in math. the first thing you need to recognize is that math is the hardest subject you have, meaning you need to spend the most time on it. there aren't any easy hacks to help you here.

practice, practice, practice. the goal in math is to learn, not memorize. the only way to succeed in math is by practicing questions over and over again until you have completely understood the material.

do not leave a single stone unturned or you will regret it lol. even if you don't understand a small, tiny, seemingly irrelevant detail i guarantee you it will be on the test.

always ask your teachers questions. preferably ask them in class, because there will be someone who has the same questions as you, but after class works too. just make sure to write them in a notebook so you can remember the questions.

redo the homework, focusing on the hardest questions. most of the time your test will be harder than the homework. go over all your homework and select the most difficult questions to solve.

time yourself. make sure you can solve the problems under a time constraint, one similar to the test. not only do you need to get each problem correct, you also need to do so under time constraints.

review previous and new work before going to class. even if you don't understand it, always try to stay on top of what you're doing. seeing the material previously helps reinforce it better.

sleep well. before every math class, make sure you're alert and awake, because math classes move fast.

create a practice test by taking questions from online, past exams, and homework. try creating testing conditions similar to the test using the same time constraints and even testing in the same time of day. make it as accurate to the actual test as possible.

[studyblr-perhaps]

18/06/24 || Tuesday

As much as I complain about it, this internship has taught me more in two weeks than I have learnt probably all my life. Research is fun, truly, and I hope I get to see more fruits of my labor soon.

[deadpoetsandlivinglegends]

Feel like Neil couldn’t have been any other kind of actor than one in theatre. If he was a movie actor or on social media or whatnot, it would not be the same. Theatre by nature is fleeting. Recorded mediums can be rewatched over and over, creating a time loop of sorts. We the audience can keep going back to a time when Neil is still alive. Theatre however is live and once the play is over, there is no going back except in our memories. It is much like life. We are forced to live in the moment in a theater lest we miss it altogether. It’s not that the poets choose to live in a world where Neil is dead, it’s that they must because the only other option is to die themselves. I feel like Keatings teachings could only be reflected in stage theatre because that’s the only way there can be no time loop of grief. I think dead poets society itself isn’t about overcoming the authority in your life to do what you want but rather about grief, about allowing oneself to feel grief and all one’s emotions without letting it consume you and to keep living after, to live every day in the moment lest you fall into grief and regret that will destroy you or force you into a miserable life

[amnhnyc]

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[mochi-kitty]

Begging y’all to read solo comics. You could learn a lot about Bart simply by READING then you wouldn’t say things that are straight up wrong

[bambiraptorx]

[I.D. Digital drawing using ROTTMNT Draxum and TMNT 2003 Stockman in a crossover AU. Draxum is yelling at Stockman, crouching somewhat to be closer to his eye level, and with his hair poofing out like an angry cats'. He yells "what do you mean you've been teaching yourself magic?? do you have *any* idea what dangers you're playing with?!" Stockman is wearing a sweater and jeans, and leans back defensively with his arms crossed and shoulders hitched. He says "I don't see why you're making such a big deal out of this." End I.D.]

Baron "I work with dangerous and illegal substances without even covering my damn eyeballs" Draxum is one to talk here

[mercutio-the-velaryon]

I am assigning myself president of the Jayce Talis 90s Agenda because I saw a post on twitter and it was a little too unmelanated for me and I don't think thats the side of 90s fashion Jayce would be on

And maybe I'm being too hopeful with the Ginuwine cut out suit but a girl can dream. Also imagine the Janet shirt as a Mel Medarda shirt because he would so wear his girl's merch.

[datapilled]

Going to go on a little rant but my god I'm sick of how undervalued maths is. I hate that for the past 10 years, including primary school, whenever I tell people I like maths I get asked if I'm insane. I hate that in a country that has made major contributions to maths, there's barely any effort to keep up that history and support new mathematicians.

I hate that I can't criticise people who also do stem that go on and on about how everything relating to maths is stupid and useless because "that's just how they feel"...Even when they're doing computer science. And said computer scientists complain every. Single. Time. When a maths equation appears.

I hate that I can't point out how it's weird how people demonize mathematics itself instead of how it's taught, which is where the problem usually lies. I hate that I'm expected to drop mathematics entirely to go into a "proper" job like programming instead of research into population models and simulations. I hate how maths is being co-opted by people making points about "how simple the world is" when maths is nothing like they portray it to be. I hate that maths is seen as a field only of white, cishet men when there's been so many women, poc and queer people that have done groundbreaking work.

I hate that we're in a world where mathematics is so important to everyday life, and yet the idea of actually studying maths and continuing research into it is frowned upon.

[ted-iverse]

I love how all these midnight burger cast imaginings being posted are basically just:

A lesbian with a PhD

The youngest (and most chill) tía

A pitiful white boy

The coolest guy you've ever seen in your fucking life

And they're all absolutely correct

[aizawashuichi]

i know where the idea that the wammy's house teaches kids to be detectives comes from but if you think about it, none of the wammy's kids work like detectives usually do, they know very little about the field and their solving styles are so different from one another. they look like they didn't attend one class of formal training, but it's still a very popular headcanon

[catscomputerscreativewriting]

Listen, textbook, I admire the dedication to grifting my students into learning most of Constructive Logic before they've realized it. They are computer scientists after all. It's good for them. But... really? No explanation of formal proofs by contradiction in the undergraduate, Logic for CS textbook? You do include double negation elimination, which is an equivalent Classical axiom, but not, like, (A -> Bottom) -> ~A?

You mean I'm gonna have to derive that myself from the completely random and arbitrary Classical axioms you've decided to adopt and then neglected to prove the completeness of? Otherwise, all of these proofs will become extremely cumbersome and all of my students will swear off CS theory for the rest of their lives?

... ok fine, it'll be in the slides. T-T

[stinkrat-aleks]

The newest chapter of Little Boy mentioned that Soccer!Brian was a footballer, football as in soccer right? Because the implications of that are so sad if he was also a soccer player, but also soccer au Charles being a soccer nepo baby is so funny to me at the same time

Omg thank you for reading and noticing that detail!! ♡ Yes, in soccer au i decided to make Brian a famous soccer player too....Charles had that shit handed down to him!!!!!! 🤨

Of course he worked for it in his own way but Charles is def a soccer nepo baby and hates when Erik brings it up. Especially because Erik didn't come from that sort of family prestige.