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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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  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
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  11. Two centuries of continuous volcanic eruption may have triggered the end of the ice age
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  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
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  20. New Zealand’s fisheries quota management system: on an undeserved pedestal
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  29. Universities must act now on sustainability goals
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