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Melting Behaviour
These downloadable videos and animations are part of the multimedia package Stuff and Substance, developed by the Gatsby Science Enhancement Programme (SEP). They can be used to develop the idea that mixtures do not have precise melting and boiling points. Using properties that depend on the material only to...
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Memories Are Made of This?
In this Catalyst article scientists investigate the basis of memory using lab animals; this can lead to insights into human memory, and treatments for people suffering deteriorating memory.
The article focuses on two aspects of memory:
*the hippocampus, the part of the brain belonging to the limbic...
Memory
The first video explores the purpose of both RAM and ROM in a typical computer system. The differences between the two memory types are outlined.
The second video considers what happens when a modern multi-tasking operating system runs out of physical RAM. Does it output a “memory full” message and refuse...
Memory game: conditional probability
This task assesses how well students understand calculating conditional probability. Some of the tasks require either systematic listing or use of tree diagrams.
The task features a ‘memory game’. In the game there are four cards, two have a picture of an apple on them, and two have a picture of bananas. In...
Memory Myths
This Catalyst article looks at the topic of human memory. While it is clear that memory is essential in so many ways, there are many myths about how memory works.
This article explores some of these fairytales and explains what modern psychological science has discovered about how memory really works and why...
This book is part of the Archive Collection which is available to view at the National STEM Learning Centre.
Men of Mathematics presents a fair sample of the lives of extraordinarily gifted men, these include Lobatchewsky, Abel, Jacobi, Hamilton, Galois, Sylvester, Cayley, Weirstrass, Sonja Kowalewski, Boole, Hermite, Kronecker, Riemann, Kummer, Dedekind...
Men of Mathematics presents a fair sample of the lives of extraordinarily gifted men, these include Lobatchewsky, Abel, Jacobi, Hamilton, Galois,...