Kathleen Anne B
I am Namibian and have lived in Australia, South Africa, The Netherlands, England, Japan and then South Africa and Namibia again.
I took care of my mother, but now she has passed: I need to study...
Location Namibia
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
When I studied these topics myself in 1999 and every time I see them discussed, I have the same thought. It really gives the impression that you need to be perfect to be a teacher of any kind!
Fortunately this is one of the myths not mentioned in the quiz. Many of us are less patient, organized or self disciplined than would be ideal. But we can and do still... -
Kathleen Anne B made a comment
I had several favourite teachers at school and have been privileged be the favourite of some of my students (when I was younger and less crabby).
My favourites could always see in me what I could not... They usually showed signs themselves of the the not neurotypical me! -
Kathleen Anne B made a comment
I have attended a seminar at my School in South Africa (Graeme College) on Singapore Mathematics. One school in the area had already implemented the curriculum in its primary school and the teacher of several schools came together to see what it was about.
I use the adding and subtracting with rectangles to teach my adult Legal Accounting students Value Added... -
This is why I made the comment about the amount of reading involved. Many children will do Maths in English in Namibia whereas it is there second, third or even fourth language.
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
I am a little bit worried about the reading required in the geometry questions. Although the language is simple, many children will have been taught in there home language at the first years of school, although the only official language in Namibia is English.
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Yes, this struck me too. It could be something interesting to point out is an introductory Maths lesson when you first meet a class!
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Interesting that in Reasoning Skills Japan outperforms its Asian counterparts significantly while in the overall placement it is last in the top Asian Countries. Having taught in Japan while living there for three and a half years, I wonder why that is?
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Was the assessment done in 2020, I would guess CovID 19 and the SARS 2 virus would have make things more complicated.
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
I have heard of the tests and children at schools where I work have taken them. In Southern Africa the results from different schools are very different. Private schools and former white government schools do well in these test while most schools attended by poor children do very badly. The same can be said for National examinations for the countries, although...
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I think that because China is included and many people in China are poor, the role of poverty is ruled out. On the other hand poor people in China do not have very large families and the education level of parents is good, compared to places in Africa were there can be 10 children in a poor family, and often the parents or grandparents that look after those...
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
Hello everyone
I am Kathleen Anne Bethune. I loved Maths at school and did HG in my with the JMB based in South Africa. I went to Australia as an Exchange Student in 1986 and did my HSC in NSW.
This is where my phobia of teaching Calculus began. I was in the 3U Maths class (advanced but not super advanced) and we learnt calculus starting with the concept... -
Kathleen Anne B made a comment
Survivorship starts after treatment ends, unless there is a low dose ongoing treatment designed to be used for years.
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Kathleen Anne B replied to JIANG MINGMIN
It means you might say something with incorrect grammar or pronunciation but you realise it immediately and correct the mistake.
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
The gap between level 6 and level 7 is huge! I feel it is unreasonable for countries to require level 7 for immigration as well as organisations such as the UN to require 7 for employment. Non native speakers can communicate perfectly well without frequent error free sentences.
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
Go through it all again at some point to refresh my memory...
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I try to eat a variety of vegetables, but don't always succeed. I get way more calcium than anybody needs, because I drink about two litres of milk a day!
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
I think both of these students are around bands 5 and 6
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Hi Vilinda
https://www.jigsaw.org/
I hope this helps
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
I have used Jigsaw with senior Biology classes. They really enjoyed the experience.
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
"Each one, Teach one" was a slogan in the townships of apartheid South Africa.
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
I always read them when starting a new medication and then every few years after that.
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Love BBC Bitesize
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
One of those reminds me of cross-my-heart bras.
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
Pretty gruesome reading. The risk is the reason drug companies pay volunteer well!
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
II was prescribed a nasal spray for ;low bone density. was this for nasal mwmbrane absorption or would the lung have been the "target".
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No, usually that is for arrival out of the stomach to the small intestine...
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Pat D
Applying a patch fro trans-dermal absorption. Would that be inunction? HRT gel fits inunction's definition more than HRT patches?
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
I am enjoying this course. It is well presented and interesting.
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
Did lots of web-surfing after following the links. Ended up looking at skin cancer treatment.
"Ingenol mebutate is a novel topical drug from the latex sap of a plant-Euphorbia peplus that acts by chemoablative and immunostimulatory properties." I need to find me a milkweed plant! -
Kathleen Anne B replied to lyn dr
@AlisonCooper and no profit possible...
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
So interesting!
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First penicillin perhaps... Mould certainly has antibiotic properties...
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That is why I went into an investigation into the similarities of Egyptian and Chinese antiquities. Very interesting theories exist...
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
"The sildenafil compound was originally developed by Pfizer for the treatment of hypertension (high blood pressure) and angina pectoris (chest pain due to heart disease). During the heart clinical trials, researchers discovered that the drug was more effective at inducing erections than treating angina."
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
Antivirals and antibiotics post BMT.
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Kathleen Anne B
I mean teaching at a school for children and teenagers... As opposed to those that do Mathematics as a job and teach it to young and not so young adults as a sideline...
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@LynseyChristie I have taught Science from year 7 to year 11 in the UK as well as in South Africa and Namibia with Biology going about half way through A-levels. What I said referred to errors not content level. At the moment I only give extra lessons to students. I liked the old BBC Bitesize material, but the newer version uses too much bandwidth for Africa.
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Kathleen Anne B
@LynseyChristie I also teach primary school children science and there is a lot I would leave out for even middle school children.
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Stuart Boyd
@KenRoberts Actually ,any are EX because they are known too well...
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Stuart Boyd
We just spoke of the handedness of the molecules...
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Robert Mcleod
Please do...
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Martha Gil-Montero
@JamesChristie Um....
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Gilberte Schnur
@StuartBoyd Subject of an aborted PhD of a friend...
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Lynsey Christie
@LynseyChristie I think I should be given a free upgrade for proof-reading and editing...
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A late start after 10 days of crazy not very mindful drama... Ready to just be
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Kathleen Anne B
@KirstyKiezebrink I've done some googling and realise it would be drawn into the circulatory system where its role is pretty important. Like the appendix it only becomes high priority when infected or damaged!
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
A small contribution to fluid volume is also made by the lymph nodes.
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Gilberte Schnur
@GilberteSchnur Angelman syndrome is close to home. My godmother's grandson has it. Rare conditions rarely have enough funding for research. It would great if you looked into this!
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
NH2 end or NH3 end?
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Gilberte Schnur
@KenRoberts Eliminating refined sugar is never a bad thing. However what you have read is an example of pseudo-science. Fruit sugars and refined sugars are both digested by our bodies before they can get anywhere near your pancreas. Starches, fruit sugars, milk sugars and refined sugars, all are broken down into monosachides. These monosacharides are glucose,...
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Gilberte Schnur
@GilberteSchnur Our bodies only make L-isomers although in amino acids produced in a lab both L and D isomers can be made.
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
Interesting way of looking at the topic!
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
I would like to see how to explain these topics simply to students.
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
Gall bladder involved in the production of bile?
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@KenRoberts LOL
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Lots of skin involvement too.... And where does the energy come from? What about all the heavy breathing...
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Pat Hoad
And muscular skeletal system? Nervous system for maintaining balance and seeing where you are going. Digestive system providing nutrients for absorption from small intestine. Endocrine system regulating glucose available for cellular respiration...
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Karin Guinchard
Rather more of the woman's reproductive system is shown in the endocrine system than is actually endocrine. Uterus and ovaries only.... And in the uterus, is it not just the placenta? (I don't know how I would show that though :-) )
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
Hi, this confirms that the spleen is not usually taught in basic anatomy. Maybe because it does not fit neatly into one of the system pictures?
I did the Abdomen course recently made a comment there too. I have never seen it in a diagram in a High School text book.
When doing dissections in class it was always the thing that the teacher gets asked about ... -
Kathleen Anne B replied to cynthia alvares
I would like the electron that sodium gives up to stay pink when it joins Cl to make Cl-.
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Ann Glissan
Or it wants to have full outer layers. Sometime it will give up the electrons in a very empty layer to have the previous layer as a full outer layer.
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Kathleen Anne B
I understand basic chemistry as I teach it as part of Biology and Science at High School. I also understand that this course is simplified, but since ions are so important in the human body, I would have thought a slightly more detailed explanation would help.
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@LynseyChristie I think that the implication that animal cells have walls, is serious. My suggestion is to leave out content that is not directly relevant, especially if it misrepresents what children have already learnt in grade school. I would have loved to recommend this course to my high school students, but unfortunately I can't.
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Kathleen Anne B
@LynseyChristie What makes these different is apparent in a structural diagram and not with the formula. If this information is not meant to be understood, why is it included? Alkenes and Alkanes are not essential to understanding the body.
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Kathleen Anne B
@LynseyChristie Incorrect, none the less. The gap between two dendrite rich areas is not a synapse! Could you do corrections where errors are pointed out? There is also a general problem with the diagrams in that label lines are not in contact with the objects labelled.
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
Red blood cells in lymph is news to me. What function do they have there?
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
Strange place to put a synapse label?
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
I am hoping this is where the anatomists will start teaching me things.
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
I would just like the errors to be corrected before I ask my students to use this course as revision for High School Biology.
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
This is all very well explained, in contrast to the misinformation in the lesson on prokaryotes and Eukaryotes.
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Photosynthesis and not having supporting structures like bones or exoskeletons to keep things in place. Cellular respiration is pretty much the same for most organisms.
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
"Plant cell walls are much stronger" as opposed to animal cell walls???
Plant HAVE cell walls OUTSIDE THE CELL MEMBRANE. THESE are [] strong[]... -
Kathleen Anne B replied to Shanta Perera
In Science as in finance the world has bowed to the US Billion and Trillion. I am guessing it is 10^12.
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Stuart Boyd
@LynseyChristie Please correct this information here! Most Protists are unicellular...
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
Okay, I need to leave this course!
eukaryotes are organisms made up of many cells (multi-cellular)
I am sorry, this is simply incorrect information!
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Stuart Boyd
@StuartBoyd one can edit...
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OH does not exist, so it is not a molecule! OH- is an ion, and could perhaps be called a molecular ion???
I am finding the Chemistry teaching frustrating. My primary school children can understand proper explanations, so I am not sure why you don't explain that ionic bonds do not make molecules but 3D crystals with patterns of ions in solid form and when... -
Kathleen Anne B made a comment
Structural formulae would have made this much easier to understand.
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Martin Lofgren
@AnnettePayling alternating, is a strange way of putting it... I am pretty sure this will all be explained later, you are on the right track!
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
Balls for Hydrogen should be much smaller!
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Robert Harding
See if you can find a 3D animation of a (ball&stick) molecule rotating. Or use modelling clay and matchsticks to make your own molecules...
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
The word Dipole is new to me!
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Ann Glissan
Covalent bonding is sharing and ionic bonding is stealing electrons....
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Nick Allen
@LynseyChristie I am sorry, this is not true. H+ is an ion and has no electrons!
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
Ionic Bonds do not lead to the formation of molecules!
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Stuart Boyd
All my students use this to study the elements. The refrain is an excellent summary!
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Elisabeth Somogyi
C, P, S, Se are the other blue bits...
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
Okay, this I know. Interested in how the table is split for Lanthanides and Actinides...
May I recommend the Periodic Table Song from You Tube... You will find several versions of it if you search.
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
I am a teacher from Africa. I have taught biology for several years, but now only tutor one student who does biology. I teach English at the moment and would like to see if I can recommend this course to students in my class who also do Biology.
I did Zoology and Maths at University so Human anatomy is an extension of the dissections I did in our course on... -
Kathleen Anne B made a comment
I am doing this course to see if I should recommend it to my high school students...
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Love Dissections! Miss being a Biology teacher...
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
I am a biology teacher and and have had a bone marrow transplant for AML. I have recently found out that AML sometimes runs in families, although not in mine. I am interested to know how that is possible...
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Kathleen Anne B replied to bryce randalls
Push that pause 'button' regularly. It is what saved this week for me!
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Steve Hilton
Sets have come and gone in the school systems we have had in my countries!
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Kathleen Anne B replied to tim bloore
That will depend on how you were taught mathematics at school, and that again depends on how long ago you were in school as well as where you went to school. This is a conceptual build up to calculus, while calculus has simple rules and can be done correctly without deeper understanding of the concepts involved. Just like arithmetic and algebra can be mastered...
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Mike Lewis
@MikeLewis It makes me mad too!
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Kathleen Anne B made a comment
When I started using the pause button after each step in the video and thinking about it, I could follow everything. I don't like the fact that Mathematics does not seem to have international conventions about the use of symbols and even terminology. We teach natural numbers as excluding 0 and counting numbers as including 0. I never did see the point of...
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Kathleen Anne B replied to Glenda Leeming
You don't just multiply by six! You are multiplying by 1 which is perfectly acceptable! the 1 is in the form of 6/6! If you look carefully he multiplied by six AND divided by six (by multiplying by 1/6)...
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Not really...
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Gauss is very slick, but is not as widely useful as induction.
