The nature of the world and workforce around us is changing at a dizzying pace. Astounding scientific and technological advances – most of which rest on fundamental mathematical principles and theories – are creating new ways of working, living and thinking. The challenge for our educational systems is to ensure that all of our children achieve high levels of quantitative literacy. As an intern...

physiological condition in which there is rhythmical variation in the heart-rate due to vagal influences at the pace-maker. The variation may be dependent on the respiration, the rate waxing with inspiration, waning with expiration, or it may be unrelated to breathing. The condition is well marked in children and athletes of great stamina. It is common in the latter to find a pulse-rate of 44 t...

Channels of communication are presented as an emergent property of cooperative work. During actual interaction channels of communication are typically used in an intermittent fashion. Thus bandwidth is not an appropriate measure. Instead pace, the measure of the rate at which individual communications occur through a channel, is proposed as a primary property. We can relate this to the pace of ...

Young children (birth to age 5) are more likely be expelled or suspended than school-aged children, but we know comparatively little about the precursors and prevention of exclusion in early childhood settings. Furthermore, what research has been conducted not systematically synthesized inform policy funding decisions. The present review seeks determine how is defined assessed academic literatu...