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Burkini controversy: TOK activity in analyzing perspectives

August 30, 2016December 16, 2017Eileen Dombrowski
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  A storm of controversy over a swimming suit? Astonishingly, it’s not even a risqué one! Women have recently been fined in France for keeping too much of their bodies covered on the beach – and towns have passed regional laws to ban the “burkini”.  The ban on this bathing costume, however, has met extensive […]

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The square root sign and the divide sign

October 8, 2015March 23, 2016Oxford Maths

The square root sign Nowadays if any definition issue or technicality arises my first response is to trawl the internet, which often leads me down diverse paths.  This one took me to square root and cube root signs.  Wikipedia suggests the tick sign first appeared in 1525, along with + and -, in a work […]

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