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Finger tracing can help students solve maths problems

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Using the index finger to trace over advanced and multi-step maths problems can help students with problem solving, new research shows.

Tracing can assist learning not only for spatial topics such as triangles and angle relationships, but also for non-spatial tasks such...

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Politics podcast: Nick Xenophon on launching a political party

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At the start of a frenetic year for independent Nick Xenophon, the South Australian senator tells Michelle Grattan his new national political party, the Nick Xenophon Team (NXT), will fill a vacuum.

“People want a genuine choice from the political centre. I think they’re sick of the left and right skirmishes we see in politics - the red...

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