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Technology in the classroom can improve primary mathematics

  • Written by: Catherine Attard, Associate Professor, Mathematics Education, Western Sydney University
imageThere’s much more to mathematics than computation, and that’s where more contemporary technologies can improve primary mathematics.Shutterstock

Many parents are beginning to demand less technology use in the primary classroom due to the amount of screen time children have at home. This raises questions about whether technology in the...

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Seven ways to protect your pets in an emergency

  • Written by: Mel Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Organisational Psychology, Macquarie University

If you’ve been following media coverage of the post-hurricane flooding in Texas during the last couple of weeks, you will have seen many images and accounts of people evacuating with their pets.

You will no doubt also have seen emergency responders and volunteers rescuing abandoned pets and stranded horses and livestock. Similar stories play...

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Why we remember our youth as one big hedonistic party

  • Written by: Amanda Barnier, Professor of Cognitive Science and Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Macquarie University
imageVinyl records and cassette tapes, the parties that went with them, and other hedonistic pleasures from our youth can form a big part of our identity years later.from www.shutterstock.com

This is the last article in our three-part series on hedonism and health.


Are the hedonistic adventures of your late teens and 20s fresh in your memory? Can you...

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Curious Kids: Why do our brains freak us out with scary dreams?

  • Written by: Drew Dawson, Director, Appleton Institute, CQUniversity Australia
imageDreams are like a forest walkway: there's no clear sense of direction and you can easily get lost.ollierb/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND

This is an article from Curious Kids, a series for children. The Conversation is asking kids to send in questions they’d like an expert to answer. All questions are welcome – serious, weird or wacky!


Why do our...

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  3. AGL rejects Turnbull call to keep operating Liddell coal-fired power station
  4. Newspoll 53-47 to Labor, but Turnbull's better PM lead blows out
  5. What Cassini's mission revealed about Saturn's known and newly discovered moons
  6. What 'sniffer' planes can tell us about North Korea's nuclear tests
  7. From segregation to celebration: the public pool in Australian culture
  8. Australia and Timor Leste reach a deal on the Timor Sea – but much remains unknown
  9. Here's what social media data can tell us about the performance of Australian cities
  10. Western Australian researchers get cut off from nationally funded research cloud
  11. Two centuries of continuous volcanic eruption may have triggered the end of the ice age
  12. Has APRA just outsourced its job?
  13. Strongyloidiasis is a deadly worm infecting many Australians, yet hardly anybody has heard of it
  14. What are ketogenic diets? Can they treat epilepsy and brain cancer?
  15. Virtual child pornography could both help and hinder law enforcement
  16. Guide to the Classics: Homer's Odyssey
  17. Retrofitted cities are forcing residents to live with planning failures – we're due for a rethink
  18. Why Australian CEOs are sharing part of our wages pain
  19. Hedonism not only leads to binge drinking, it's part of the solution
  20. New Zealand’s fisheries quota management system: on an undeserved pedestal
  21. Politics podcast: Nick Xenophon on media reform
  22. Shorten shakes off citizenship pursuers as Labor pursues Joyce
  23. Another day, another scandal: CBA blames customers for identity theft
  24. Three reasons why pacemakers are vulnerable to hacking
  25. A look back at Cassini's incredible mission to Saturn before its final plunge into the planet
  26. Kim Jong-un's nuclear ambition: what is North Korea's endgame?
  27. Trump can’t win: the North Korea crisis is a lose-lose proposition for the US
  28. How shopping centres are changing to fight online shopping
  29. Universities must act now on sustainability goals
  30. Without proper protections, same-sex marriage will discriminate against conscientious objectors
  31. Health Check: is makeup bad for your skin?
  32. The costs of a casual job are now outweighing any pay benefits
  33. What is hedonism and how does it affect your health?
  34. This is why we cannot rely on cities alone to tackle climate change
  35. It's reputation that matters when spin doctors go back to the newsroom
  36. I have always wondered: why are some fruits poisonous?
  37. All that glitters: why our obsession with putting gold on food is nothing new
  38. At last! The world's first ethical guidelines for driverless cars
  39. Curious Kids: Why do stars twinkle?
  40. Anger, aggression and violence: it matters that we know the difference
  41. The new Great Barrier Reef pollution plan is better, but still not good enough
  42. Australia's record-breaking winter warmth linked to climate change
  43. The more years spent in a classroom the lower your risk of heart disease
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