Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre-Covid forecasts

Re:Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre... by adhesive_wombat on Saturday May 27, 2023 @05:17PM (#36098413)

That we don't have that anyway is mind-blowing. An open-source corpus of educational material seems like an obvious social good in excess of many things that do get huge quantities of money sprayed at them.

Why does every school need to figure out sourcing their own worksheets for teaching kids about oxbow lakes or copper sulphate or whatever? Half the time they look like a teacher made them in 1993 using Windows NT clipart program, a typewriter and a photocopier, the other half of the time they are sloppily and half-heartedly cobbled together by some educational company.

The BBC does do quite a bit of this with BiteSize, bit it still seems limited compared to what I would really hope for.

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Re:Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre... by abirch on Saturday May 27, 2023 @06:09PM (#36098873)

Correct, not a lot has happened in Trigonometry or introductory calculus for centuries but colleges are always requiring newer editions.

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Re:Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre... by ForOldHack on Sunday May 28, 2023 @08:27PM (#36109213)

Introductory Calculus, my friend, a teacher, during a period, where a new edition proved to be more buggy then the rest, abandoned text books. A recent HS grad, walked into their class, and was dismissed... then dropped my name, and was told to sit down. There are things from recent work that is now being incorporated into the curriculum, cleaner approaches... but the text books have not kept pace, except for one important exception: The amount of free textbooks has ballooned, and a great new proof of integral (1/x)

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