Opinion
Peter Edgerton
...their own admission, don't know what ninety-five per cent of the universe is made from while something known as The Standard Model is their best effort thus far at attempting to explain it all. If my maths is correct, then, The Standard Model covers
National
ALFONSO TORICES
...results can only be described as mediocre. These tests, which take place every three years, aim to evaluate educational systems in different countries by comparing pupils' knowledge of maths, science and reading comprehension, and their ability to ... average for the most advanced countries. In fact, the OECD has only published the Spanish results in maths and science, because some of the pupils presented such"anomalies" in the answers to the reading tests that it affected the overall result for the ... distance behind the national average. In 2009 there was a difference of 19 points for science, which reduced to ten points in 2012, rose again to 20 in 2015 and is now still 12 points lower. With regard to maths, the marks for pupils in Andalucía were
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YOLANDA VEIGA
...the way they walk, their skill at solving maths problems, being a born leader or quite the opposite. "Physical similarities are obviously determined by genes, so if your parents have blue eyes it is very probable that yours will be blue as well. And ... academic results even though someone doesn't have a very high IQ. "My parents were Physics and Maths teachers and I have the same way of processing information as they have, but if my family had not had the means to allow me to study or if I had simply
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CRISTINA PINTO
...chestnuts cost five euros a kilo and the charcoal 19 euros... When you start doing the maths you realise that our profit might only be ten or fifteen euros a day." The fear of Covid-19 and the protocols also play a role, although most of the stalls
Opinion
Peter Edgerton
...foreheads have discovered an exoplanet (which simply means a planet located outside of our solar system, not, as I had thought, one with an identity crisis) nine hundred and forty light years from here. If this isn't mind-boggling enough - you do the maths
Sport
JULIO RODRÍGUEZ
Maths and Physics so if it doesn't work out, I'd like to be an engineer." However, for now attention is being turned to the United States Amateur Championship in Pinehurst (North Carolina) this August for which Mueller qualified directly after his
Opinion
Peter Edgerton
...subjects to excel at. Only later did I realise that my relative competence was because of what the German, French and Maths classes had in common: they were all in afternoon when my very limited grey matter was slowly awakening, blinking its way into the
Opinion
JEREMY BLATCH
...year. Do the maths and calculate the capital you are losing over 5, 10 and 15 years! Today there are some 40 traditional index mutual funds designed to track the US S&P 500 Index 14 of which carry an initial subscription charge of between 1.5% and
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SUR IN ENGLISH
...opening of Phoenix College. The centre is the first sixth form college of its kind on Spanish mainland and provides A-Level classes in subjects such as Applied Maths, Physics, Geography and Politics for students with a high level of English. Many of the
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PEDRO LUIS ALONSO
"I know the subjects I like. Maths, sciences... I'm not good at language or literature," he says. His coach, another Grand Master from Malaga, Ernesto Fernández - when he began, he trained with Jesús Garrido - agrees that the future is something
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JENNIE RHODES
...she recalls, adding that doing research in the 1990s was difficult as there was no internet like there is nowadays. After leaving school, having carefully chosen subjects she knew she needed to become a pilot, like physics and maths, Kassandra passed
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CARMEN PARRA
...drink. Currently, all we can do is work out the number of calories with maths, taking into account that a gramme of alcohol contains seven kilocalories (kcal). It all adds up quickly! The calories in alcohol are considered 'empty' because they provide
Travel
Jennie Rhodes
...that you will decide to go somewhere else, as there are very few tables for one to be found and all tables could be occupied, at the very least, by a couple. Do the maths. Still, with a lack of your own conversation you do pick up some gems from
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Susana Zamora
Finnish School needed a maths teacher and I was lucky enough to get the job,” she says. She says the Finnish children in Fuengirola are more open, but they follow the same educational programme as they would in their own country. The educational system in