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University of Leicester research helps primary teachers tackle tricky maths teaching
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/february/maths-book
A new book from University of Leicester researchers is aimed at helping primary school teachers to teach fractions and decimals effectively.
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Career Commitment
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/pgrcareers/2015/07/20/commitment/
Posted by Martin Coffey in Postgraduate Researcher Careers on July 20, 2015 Along with the University’s team, I attended the final of Engineering YES 2015. The post event talk was given by Lord Digby Jones, former head of the Confederation of British Industry.
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ROAD 2.0
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2011/08/16/road-2-0/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 16, 2011 Resource of Outdoor Advertising Descriptions http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/outdoor_advertising/ Site maintained by Duke University.
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Reading with Armenian Embassy at London Book Fair
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/english/2015/04/04/reading-with-armenian-embassy-at-london-book-fair/
Posted by Jonathan Taylor in School of English Blog on April 4, 2015 I’ll be reading from my novel, Entertaining Strangers (Salt, 2012), at the pavilion of the Armenian Embassy at the London Book Fair, in conjunction with the Armenian Institute .
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Interpreting Archaeological Evidence
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar2604
Module code: AR2604 Archaeology is it not just about digging stuff up we also have to make sense of the stuff we dig up.
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Making Sense of the Past (Critical Thinking in Archaeology)
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar1010
Module code: AR1010 This module focuses on how we make sense of archaeological evidence. It looks critically at the processes that we go through to take the evidence we excavate and turn it into the narratives and interpretations we present about the past.
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Leaders join delegation to India to promote UK higher education
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/leaders-join-delegation-to-india-to-promote-uk-higher-education
A large number of UK university leaders, including our University's Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Paul Boyle, are in India this week (9-11 Dec) as part of a delegation to raise the profile of UK higher education.
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Explosive moment in the media
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/february/explosive-moment-in-the-media
University geologist Dr David Hawthorn, who set up equipment near the former city council HQ to record the effects of the controlled demolition of the site, has published his results. Dr David Hawthorn is a seismologist in our Department of Geology.
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The maths behind what makes a Formula One world champion
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/november/the-maths-behind-what-makes-a-formula-one-world-champion
With Lewis Hamilton recently becoming three-time Formula One world champion, a new course offered by the University looks at how calculus is used in motor racing to calculate fuel consumption and the forces a driver experiences during a race.
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The right rubber for the job
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/may/the-importance-of-using-the-right-rubber-for-the-job
Researchers from the Department of Geology have discovered that when it comes to rubbers, textured surfaces, and reproduction, more fluid formulations have greater reliability than those that are thick and sticky.