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Tackling solo gaming, one blog post at a time.
Five Klicks
Posted by E.S. Wynn June 04, 2021
Day 1: Those We Leave Behind (Five Klicks)
From the Journal of Maya Ceros, Day 1.
I should have seen this coming. I had heard the whispers back in Cinder Hill, the people talking about how many cans of gas they figured I'd hoarded for our trip west, but I thought if we left at dawn and drove a hard pace, we'd be impossible to catch. What I didn't count on was Old Man Matthews and the grudge he has against Stockless Sally.
We were a full day's ride from Cinder Hill when I finally felt safe enough to stop. It was our first trip out this far with Maxine and Mudrunner, so taking a break to make sure everything was running smooth seemed prudent.
I guess the hired guns were counting on that. They started taking shots at us the instant we were out in the open. When I finally got eyes on them, I knew we were outnumbered.
Outnumbered, but not outgunned.
For my first campaign turn in Five Klicks, I immediately rolled a battle with petty bandits, rolled high on the number encountered, and managed to get a brute and an officer in there as well with my high rolls. Even better, the unit that turned out to be an officer already had a pistol, so she got upgraded to a hand cannon. I was worried at first, but as I laid out the terrain, and inspected the statistics and models of the bandits blocking my way west, I started to get excited about how things might unfold. What a great "jump in the deep end" way to start the game. Plus, it gave me ideas. Why would we run into thugs a day's ride from Cinder Hill? Gotta be Old Man Matthews telling a group of poor saps that if they kill everyone in the convoy, they can have our guns and our gas as payment for services rendered.
Of course, petty bandits are marked as "cautious" enemies, so they must have known about the reputation of Maya Ceros and some of the others in the convoy.
Terrain generation was very smooth and satisfying, and made me feel like I have the perfect table for this game. I realized in placing scatter terrain, walls, etc. that my terrain collection isn't quite up to snuff, so I put that on my list of things to work on. Namely, I need more buildings and more impassable terrain. I didn't have anything that fell under the category of "Impassable," so I made a big dense stack of cargo crates and filled the space with it instead, figuring I'd treat that as impassable.
We started bunched up-- all of us except Dora. She'd seen something in the ruins, so I let her lag behind to check it out while the rest of us made a push in toward the tower of crates ahead. Kate, Kara, Caroline and Sarah were quick on their feet, while Sally, Kate, Dave and I were more cautious in our approach.
There was another shape in the ruins that looked promising, but I didn't want to risk splitting the group up for every suspicious thing that came along. Leading the way, I let the others come up just behind, picking cover where they could.
Already the bandits were moving, dodging to and from cover, angling to get in, to get shots off before we could close the distance.
Dora reached the shape she'd seen in the ruins, figuring it was going to be something shiny and salvageable.
When she got close enough to get a good look at it, she quickly realized it wasn't something valuable. It was just a potted plant, the ruins of some plastic office decoration from long before.
After this run, I might suggest she get her eyes checked.
We tried to close in and get behind cover, but I got caught with my butt hanging out in the open and a couple of the bandits with pistols took pot shots at me.
Meanwhile, Sarah closed with the object she'd spotted in the ruins.
By some miracle, the thing still functioned. A valuable piece of scrap, and definitely something we'll be hauling back to the convoy for trade the next time we run into a merchant.
The bandits had a big guy with them, a brute with some crazy metal fist things that I didn't want to see up close. Him, and the guy with the sledgehammer were the first into the trees, the first to try to close with us. A few steps behind, Sally and Kate moved to intercept them.
That was when Sarah made her move, bolting into the open and spraying the trees with her shotgun. Unfortunately, that's all she hit. Trees, and some defenseless tires.
Calm as death, Kara stepped into the narrow space between stacks of debris and took a shot at one of the bandits. Instead of hitting him, her shot went wide, leaving her vulnerable and exposed.
Dora took a shot with her scrap rifle, but missed the guy with the sledgehammer. Again, remind me to ask her to get her eyes checked.
I was too busy to move in further than a few feet before I took a shot at the advancing brute, missing by inches.
The bandits piling up behind cover used the distraction to take a series of shots at me. The one with the musket was the luckiest, and I heard the round plink off my field armor before it whizzed off into the unknown. Thank all the gods she wasn't firing anything heavier than that at me.
That shot convinced me to move my ass out of the way.
Kara wasn't so lucky. The guy with the musket put a round in her and drove her back behind cover.
Bleeding, but out of the line of sight of the guy with the musket, Kara checked herself for wounds. I think we all breathed a sigh of relief when we realized it was just a graze, nothing that wouldn't heal up easy enough.
As soon as they saw what had happened to Kara, Kate and Sally opened fire on the bandit with the musket. Hiding in his narrow crack between steel cargo crates, he managed to dodge their fire without pulling back or diving out of the way.
As the brute and his sledgehammer friend closed ranks with Sarah, Caroline took a shot at the closest and meanest, but missed.
Dave and I moved up and tried to provide support, but all we managed to do was make the situation more chaotic for Sarah.
The bandit with the sledgehammer came at Sarah. Acting quickly, she rolled away, dodging the blow.
Close enough to smell the brute, Sarah pumped off a shotgun round. . .
. . . and knocked him clean into the bushes, where gunfire from another one of our group pinned him in cover.
The bandits closed with us again, sledgehammer guy going after Sarah again while the brute went after Kara.
Sarah wasn't having it. She put enough lead into the bandit that it should have killed him*.
Instead, it took shots from Dave and I to finish the job. Kara got her mark as well, taking down the brute before he could even touch her.
The guy with the musket who had put a round in Kara was totally unphased by the carnage.
Totally and completely unphased. Guy must have had the heart of a Spartan!
Meanwhile, Dora had found her own mark to fire rounds at. In her haste, she ended up just shooting up the scenery.
Motivated by the temporary victory, Dave, Caroline, Kara and I prepared to rush in and break the enemy resistance. Kara tried to Rally and shake off the wound, but failed.
Dora took a shot. . .
. . . and hit the bandit, pushing her back, into Kate's line of sight.
The nearest bandit who saw the resulting carnage split as fast as she could.
Meanwhile, Caroline and I got clear shots at the bandit leader and one of her lackeys, and managed to pin both of them down.
Dave jumped the last of the scrap and blasted the bandit with the musket hard enough that it should have killed him*, knocking him back into one of his buddies.
Brave Kara jumped into the breach behind Dave and finished the job for him with the last of the shotgun shells she had on her.
Shaken by seeing the musket man go down, the bandit he'd bumped into split. . .
And got shot.
Sarah exchanged fire with the bandits, and almost immediately her gun jammed.
Meanwhile the bandit leader and her lackey were still thoroughly shaken by the hail of gunfire we put on them.
Sarah tried to clear the jam in her shotgun, but quickly realized it wasn't going to be an easy fix. Kara's own shotgun was similarly down for the count.
Which gave Dave another chance to shine.
Dora and Sally took shots at the leader and her lackey, but only Sally managed to hit anything.
Meanwhile, Caroline and I crossed into cover and took up positions where we could give backup to Dave.
That was when the enemy tried to get the jump on us, being quicker on their feet than any of us were.
The one remaining bandit still carrying a musket took a shot at Dave that should have dropped him*, wounding him and pushing him back into cover instead.
Meanwhile, the lackey managed to shake himself out of his shellshock.
He promptly closed with Sally, intent on beating her with his wrench. Dora promptly missed her shot as she attempted to save Sally.
Dave dragged himself into the open to take a shot at the bandit that had put a musket ball in him, but he was too shaky and missed.
Fortunately for him, Caroline and I managed to pin his assailant down with our wild firing.
Nearby, Sally and the lackey tussled and he managed to throw her.
Kate closed the distance as the bandit leader finally came to her senses.
Dave was still being shot at, this time by pistol fire.
He made his own shot. . . and missed.
I took my shot, and as soon as I dropped the bandit with the pistol, the one with the musket took off running, retreating at full speed into the wastes.
Both totally unarmed, Sarah and Kara grouped up near a large old stump.
Sally put an end to the lackey.
Kate took at shot at the bandit leader, grazing the other woman's armor.
Dora, seemingly unable to hit anything, still managed to pin the leader near a tree.
Hearing gunshots, Caroline and I moved to flank the leader and the only remaining bandit, a woman with a baseball bat.
Sally took a shot at the leader, but it was Dora's bullet that found its mark.
The bandit with the baseball bat had closed ranks with Sarah and Kara, but after seeing her leader fall, she quickly routed, disappearing back into the wastes.
Nearby, an engine rumbled, and the last we saw of those two bandits who had run was their car, peeling out in the dust as they rushed into the wilderness.
In the end, it felt like a close fight, but we won the day and held the field with no losses. Dave MacReady's wound turned out to be minor enough that he wasn't injured by the shot that could have ended his life, and we managed to pull a decent baseball bat off one of the raiders before we departed. We got back to the convoy and checked for damage to the vehicles, but before we could depart, we spotted a trade caravan on the horizon and made plans to rendezvous with it. Turned out it was a good day for trading, and as the sun dipped near the horizon, we managed to acquire a "hafted weapon" and the schematics for a "Needle Rifle" due in part to Sally's shrewd dealing. One of the orphans of the caravan even joined up with us, but this young one still has a lot to prove. Maybe someday I'll let the new rookie come with us, but for now, I like my squad just as it is.
At dusk, I took Sarah and Dora out for some target practice, and I think it made a difference with both of them. Everyone did great today, but I credit Dora with the killing of the bandit leader and Sarah as the MVP.
And still, our convoy rolls on.
Dora Leveled Up! +1 To Combat Skill!
Sarah Leveled Up! +1 To Combat Skill!
Items Obtained:
Hafted Weapon
Needle Rifle Schematics
Light Melee Weapon
1 Scrap (Spent in trade)
Convoy did not level up.
New recruit joined the roster! An unnamed rookie with no gear.
Post-Play Notes:
* I realized part way through the game that I was handling hits wrong. I was handling them by treating die rolls equal or better than the Toughness value as wounds, (instead of greater-than values as casualties.) Technically, Dave Macready was a casualty, but he rolled as "unharmed" after the battle and didn't have any real effect after he was shot, so I figure maybe he still had some fight in him and I'll just look the other way this one time.
1. That guy with the musket that caused so much havoc? Yeah, he's a kitbash of a Spartan Warrior and a WWII US marine. No wonder he put up such a fight!
2. This was a LONG game. Four hours! I had read somewhere that a typical battle was thirty minutes, so I made time for an hour of play (figuring I'm learning the system, so it's gonna take a bit longer) and ended up having to skip my daily exercise and eat dinner while rolling dice and photographing. I stuck it out though, all the way to midnight(!) and am going to keep this in mind for future sessions, pausing them in place if they go over my allotted time for them.
3. Some factors that led to the length of the game were: a). I did a lot of flipping back and forth in the rule book, as I was learning the system. b). I used a prong fastener to hold my printed PDF together, unwittingly blocking off the page numbers (which bizarrely, are at the top of the page) so I couldn't see them and couldn't use the index to look things up. (I'm going to fix this by writing the page numbers at the bottom and page-flagging the rules. I'm also going to make a quick-reference sheet for this game to cut down on rule-referral time. c). I rolled high on the number of bad guys, meaning combat would take longer anyway. d). I rolled a lot of terrain that I had to navigate around. e). I was tracking hits wrong for half the game, unintentionally making the game less deadly in the process and slowing it down by doing so.
4. The rulebook is a little rough in organization, but I think I have all the "if this, then that" special rules in my head after one play through. Honestly, I couldn't figure out for the life of me what the starting values of the settlement were supposed to be, so I just went with 1/1/1, which made sense, figuring the scale only goes to zero because there's probably a storm or something that can lower the factors by one point.
5. I hit a personal milestone playing this game. For the longest time, I avoided playing solo games because I figured, if I was going to play a solo game that makes a story, it'd be better for me to just chuck out the game and write a book. Also, why play a game like Five Klicks when I can play a board game with others as a social activity? Well, I had an epiphany-- I figured, what's the difference between playing Five Klicks and playing a single player campaign in a video game? Really, the biggest difference is the system they run on, but with solo tabletop games, I get a chance to learn and be creative and make new things that will last longer than a save file on a console. It's official, solo tabletop games are better than videogames!
6. I'm excited to roll up the next section and see what happens to the convoy on day 2!
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Aaron July 8, 2021 at 6:25 AM
Great read mate
you done the cheat sheet yet?
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Several years ago, my Mom read aloud Fanny Crosby's autobiography to Caroline and I. I was struck by how much of the Bible she had memorized. She knew the Pentateuch, the Gospels, Proverbs, Song of Solomon, and many of the psalms by heart. She often memorized five chapters a week. Wow! Hence, I always smirked when people told me I could memorize Bible verses quickly!
You see, I can memorize about a verse a day. I do it as I exercise on the treadmill. The problem is, if you were to ask me to repeat what I memorized a year later, it would be completely gone. I might be able to stammer through some of the verses, but not a lot of them. I memorize by chapter or book. I repeat the verses over and over again. But, if I don't recite it constantly, even while I'm memorizing something else, I'll forget it. So, every once in a while, I come back to that passage and recite it; sometimes I'll have Caroline listen and stop me if I miss a word. And, yes, I memorize word-perfect. Otherwise, I wouldn't be as confident when I want to use that verse.


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BSRLM
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BSRLM Proceedings: Vol 41 No 2 held online on Friday 4th June and Saturday 5th June 2021
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01 'It's been worth the effort': Primary school teachers learning to teach mathematics remotely during the pandemic.
Ellen Barrow1, Jennie Golding2, Grace Grima1
1Pearson UK, 2UCL Institute of Education
We draw on Spring 2021 findings from a 2019-2022 study of impact and use of a 'mastery'-oriented primary (ages 4-11) mathematics resource, 'Power Maths', in England. The study follows 40 classes of primary children and their teachers, in 20 schools, over two years. Our findings span the return into school from the early 2021 lockdown period, comparing and contrasting teachers' approaches across the two pandemic-related lockdown periods, the first in March-June 2020. Most teachers developed a significantly wider range of, and confidence in, remote learning practices. They came to expect more, and active, new learning, rather than aiming just to consolidate prior knowledge. Many developed active selection of the most appropriate topics for home learning, substantially increased 'live' teaching, and found ways to more proactively monitor work. Despite this, some challenges persisted: providing effective formative assessment and insecure knowledge of parental support and of gaps in children's learning.
02 Exploring the identity negotiation of early career mathematics teachers: A pilot study
Amy Birkhead
Becoming a mathematics teacher is a period of intense identity negotiation. This study aims to understand how secondary mathematics teachers negotiate their identities during their first two years of teaching by exploring the internal forces that shape their understanding of being a mathematics teacher while navigating the social and cultural conditions of schools. Three early career teachers participated in a pilot study, which employed exploratory interviews supplemented with written personal reflections, and the collection of artefacts. In this paper I will look at the design of these data collection methods, and their potential to help develop a narrative inquiry. Such methods provide opportunities to collect extended narratives which explore teachers' histories, beliefs about mathematics, and the context in which they work.
03 Adult students' perceptions of constructivist learning, control-value appraisals, and achievement emotions in further education mathematics
Rachel I. Brougham, Laura J. Nicholson, Linda K. Kaye, Gordon Laing
The current research aimed to explore the links between students' perceptions of cognitive constructivist principles in learning and their achievement emotions in mathematics. The relationships between perceptions of four constructivist-informed classroom practices, students' appraisals of control and value, enjoyment and anxiety were investigated using a quantitative questionnaire-based study with a sample of adult students (N=103) of level 2 mathematics in further education. Multiple regression analyses revealed that perceptions of investigation learning related positively with control appraisals, value appraisals, and enjoyment, and negatively with anxiety. Perceived involvement in learning was negatively, and cooperative learning positively, related to anxiety. Implications for practice are discussed, with our conclusion advocating the use of active learning in mathematics.
04 "It's not worth trying to understand the problem, it doesn't help": An examination of children's approaches to solving word problems
Laura Clarke
The research focused on strategies 29 10 and 11 year old children applied when solving a selection of word problems. In nearly all cases children relied upon superficial, procedural strategies to identify key words and numbers that triggered inefficient and inappropriate strategies such as guess and check. Children showed remarkable resilience when applying their strategies and were confident in them even when they were unable to solve a problem. Simple interventions such as asking the children to read the problem aloud, asking prompt questions and drawing bar diagrams were decisive in helping children to understand the problem, select an appropriate strategy and reach a successful solution.
05 Learning from the pandemic: Capitalising on opportunities and overcoming challenges for mathematics teaching and learning practices with and through technology
Alison Clark-Wilson, Nicola Bretscher, Cosette Crisan, Eirini Geraniou, Ebert Gono, Andrew Neate and Chris Shore
This working group (WG), which met for the second time in June 2021, was created to discuss the theoretical and methodological challenges faced by the mathematics education field when the prevailing boundaries of the classroom shifted as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Following a brief introduction to the aims for the WG, we offer three further case studies of teachers' practices and an emerging synthesis of the cases according to three pedagogic activities that are proving to be particularly challenging.
06 Exploring mathematics anxiety amongst pupils at a pupil referral unit
Alison Flack
This research explored the prevalence, origins and expression of mathematics anxiety amongst students at a pupil referral unit (PRU). Eleven students were screened for mathematics anxiety using a questionnaire designed for this purpose. Five students scored highly for mathematics anxiety and the three highest scoring students were selected for interview about their experiences in mathematics classes both in the mainstream and PRU settings. Five themes emerged from thematic analysis: teacher input; negative lessons; subject matter; lack of personal empowerment; and the testing nature of mathematics lessons.
07 The views of STEM specialisation among academics
Vesife Hatisaru
In this paper, an analysis of responses to the D-STEM task (Draw a STEM Learning Environment), provided by fifteen university educators at an Australian university, was used to illustrate the views of STEM specialisation among STEM educators. Participants relatively exhibited either knower-code view (foregrounding dispositions of STEM knowers) or knowledge-code view (foregrounding STEM disciplinary knowledge), while élite-code view (foregrounding both) was observed less. The LCT approach (Legitimation Code Theory) has been found promising in developing a language by which what counts as STEM specialisation can be explicitly communicated.
08 Listening to Claire: Analysing one student's story told in the context of resitting mathematics in a post-16 college
Rachel Helme
For students who are labelled as low prior attaining, having the opportunity to tell self-positioning stories about their own identity work can enable a researcher to reflect on the teaching and learning of mathematics through the students' lived experience. This article demonstrates the creation of a poetic structure as a device for listening to student voice as part of a project in the context of resitting mathematics in a post-16 college. A rubric was developed for the creative process, adding consistency both within and across different poems formed during the analysis. The rubric enabled me to focus on the voices identified rather than the potential unpredictability found in the creative process.
09 Connecting music and mathematics: Exploring the professional development of primary school teachers in the English context
Caroline Hilton and Jo Saunders
Building upon previous research, a small-scale qualitative study was established to work with generalist class teachers in primary schools in London, UK. The research explored how music and mathematics may be co-taught so as to support ongoing professional development. Early findings suggest that the co-teaching of music and mathematics supported: i) a meaningful context for exploration and mastery within both subject domains; ii) extended dialogues within both subject domains; iii) collaborative dialogues between teachers focused on problem solving and learning in preference to previous foci around content and repetition; and iv) a need for the further examination of the impact of teacher identity on issues including planning, craft and professional knowledge and the notion of an 'expert'.
10 Anti-racist and decolonial practice in teacher education
Manjinder Kaur Jagdev
York St. John University
PGCE mathematics students work in groups to create lesson plans and resources about the historical and cross-cultural roots of mathematics, with written reflections on celebrating diversity. Last years' lesson activities included: 'The Game Ayo', 'Yoruba Number System', 'Towers of Hanoi', 'Crop Circles' and 'Tangrams, Sudoku and Kenken'. The students reflected on the implications on their classroom teaching with pupils, relating to unconscious bias and decolonisation of the national curriculum. At the summer BSRLM workshop 2021, ideas were shared from colleagues and students at York St. John university and for classroom teaching. BSRLM colleagues contributed to the Padlet for initial teacher education. Collaborative curriculum development practice with teachers in schools is envisaged. This will involve planning and teaching mathematics topics, interviews, lesson observations and conversations. Learning about contributions to mathematics from people from around the world, can help pupil engagement and interest, whilst addressing diversity, inclusion and social justice issues.
11 Breaking down the barriers to offering Level 3 Core Maths: Findings from interviews with large A level providers
Stephen Lee1, Jo Deko2, Iram Hussain2
1Mathematics in Education and Industry, 2Tribal
Almost 12,000 students in over 600 schools/colleges now study Level 3 Core Maths. The uptake has grown steadily since its inception in 2016, but there continues to be barriers for some institutions to offering the post-16 qualification. As part of the work of the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme, a small-scale study was conducted into 'large A level providers' who didn't offer Core Maths. 66 large A level providers were in scope of the study, and this paper reports on feedback received from 20 interviews and 10 survey responses. Findings show that a major barrier within this type of institution is that many students are already taking alternate level 3 mathematics qualifications, i.e. A level Mathematics. Other hurdles are connected to this, such as timetabling and teacher shortages. Two additional concerns centered on the funding associated with the qualifications, as well as a lack of university recognition for Core Maths.
12 Secondary students engaging in a live online enrichment programme
Sofya Lyakhova1, Andrew Neate1, Samantha Durbin2 and Rachel Dorris2
1Swansea University, 2The Royal Institution of Great Britain
The study reports on a series of Royal Institution (RI) Mathematics Masterclasses that took place in Wales in Spring 2021. The RI Masterclasses are a popular example of a mathematics enrichment activity and would usually take place in a traditional face-to-face environment, such as a university lecture theatre or school classroom. However, the 2021 series took place online due to Covid-19 restrictions. Through feedback collected after each session we investigate how the design of the online classes influenced students' engagement with mathematics.
13 A further education student teacher's mathematical and pedagogical knowledge seen in the teaching of circumference and area of the circle
Natheaniel Machino
Students get confused about the concepts of area and circumference of circles as teaching emphasizes memorizing formulas rather than understanding concepts. In this paper, I report findings of the analysis of an episode of a lesson on 'Area and circumference of the circle' taught online by a student teacher to a Further Education class. The analysis employed the Knowledge Quartet – a framework for the analysis of mathematics teaching, with a focus on teacher knowledge. Findings show the student teacher's Foundation is strong in some areas and less strong in other areas. Transformation and Connection were observed to be not strong but some good examples of recognition of conceptual appropriateness were observed. No sign of contingency was observed as students either did not contribute or their contributions were directed to the teacher only making it difficult to observe whether any teacher action was a result of the students' contributions.
14 Why do we learn? A public engagement project for Egyptian schools
Mariam Makramalla
New Giza University
Commissioned by the Public Engagement division at Cambridge University, this project aims to trigger cross-generational public debate about the purpose and value of schooling, utilizing the arts as an awareness raising filter and as a platform for self expression. In this paper, I outline the rationale and relevance of the project, the role of the arts as a mediator between mathematics teachers and society as well as some preliminary findings in relation to partnership negotiations between societal stakeholders, schools and art institutes. The paper concludes with a discussion about implications of the project along with opportunities for upcoming public engagement.
15 The capacities of pre-service teachers to effectively teach mathematical problem-solving
Emma M. Owens and Brien C. Nolan
CASTel, School of Mathematical Sciences, Dublin City University
The project addresses the development of capacities for teaching problem-solving among pre-service, post-primary (12-19 years old) mathematics teachers (PSMTs). A key concern is what these capacities are and this study incorporates the questions of what mathematical and pedagogical knowledge and skills teachers need, and what attitudes underpin effective teaching of mathematical problem-solving. This study was conducted in an Irish university setting with three cohorts of participants undertaking concurrent initial teacher education programmes. The participants had previously received formal instruction in a university module that focused on the 'Rubric Writing' approach to problem-solving. The project investigates the PSMTs' beliefs regarding problem-solving, understanding of a mathematical problem, problem-solving proficiency, and ability to pose mathematical problems. We report on the mixed-methods approach we took to addressing these questions, and provide an overview discussion on our findings. We will also discuss how these findings will influence our taught modules on problem-solving and problem-solving instruction.
16 'Hard to focus, difficult to learn': Covid19 impacts on teaching, learning and progression for A Levels in mathematics
Ben Redmond1, Jennie Golding2, Grace Grima1
1Pearson, 2UCL Institute of Education
We explore year 13 (age 17-18) student accounts of how Covid19 has impacted their learning for pre-university mathematics qualifications in England. Findings derive from the final year of a four-year study (2017/18 to 2020/21) exploring enactment and impact of reformed mathematics 'A Levels', and efficacy of associated Pearson resources and assessments. Research tools were adapted to focus on impacts of Covid19. In this cohort's first year of A level (2019/20), teaching and learning was severely disrupted. Teachers anticipated significant, wide-ranging learning gaps as students progressed to year 13. Using data from Autumn 2020 and Spring 2021 we analyse student accounts of how continued disruptions to teaching and learning have impacted them. Variable access to teachers, barriers to collaborative work, and challenges of remote or reduced contact working have resulted in reduced depth and breadth of learning. Additionally, many students reported negative impacts on mathematical confidence and wider mental health.
17 Can GeoGebra's augmented reality tool provide a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland?
Katherine Riding
GeoGebra has been well researched within the mathematics education community; however, the majority of this literature does not examine the recent edition to the GeoGebra family, GeoGebra 3D Calculator with Augmented Reality (GeoGebra 3D/AR). This master's study sought to examine how primary school students (age 7 to 12 years old) used 'AR manipulatives' to model familiar household objects. Due to the pandemic, the study was conducted over two 'virtual workshops' which propelled a second technological tool/environment to the fore; teaching, learning and researching within the 'Zoom classroom'. Participants' interactions were analysed qualitatively through Bruner's enactive-iconic-symbolic framework. All young participants identified real-life objects (enactive mode), constructed virtual objects in GeoGebra 3D/AR (iconic and symbolic modes) then 'augmented' these AR manipulatives alongside real-life artefacts (all modes). Furthermore, the virtual workshops revealed how student-centred orchestrations such as 'spot-and-show' and 'sherpa-at-work' were extremely challenging to replicate in a remote setting.
18 Deep questions of evidence and agency: How might we find ways to resolve tensions between teacher agency and the use of research evidence in mathematics education professional development?
Lucy Rycroft-Smith & Darren Macey
We reviewed the literature around evidence-informed practice, teacher agency, and professional development for mathematics teachers, using a conceptual saturation approach to identify tensions around the contested nature of evidence and possible rights and responsibilities of 'evidence-informed' professional development. We found that narrow definitions of evidence and its 'implementation' may be used to create a powerful orthodoxy around research in practice, reducing teacher agency and resisting alternative discourse. We propose accepting a wide definition of 'evidence-informed practice' in order to reduce tensions between research use and devaluing other types of knowledge, and conclude with the need for good quality mathematics education professional development to provide teachers with metaevidential insulation and critical resistance by attending to the nature of evidence as well as merely interpreting it.
19 Role of reading comprehension and maths computation in word problems solving: A comparison of Arabic EAL and English-native adults learning maths in England
Usama Saad
To investigate the role of reading comprehension and maths computation abilities in successful word problem solving, 40 adult participants (Arabic and English native speakers who have previously studied maths in England) have been recruited. They have been tested on three subtests (WRAT V for text comprehension & maths computation, and PISA for word problems) to measure their skills in reading comprehension, maths computation and word problems. The results suggested that reading comprehension and maths computation were significant predictors for Arabic-native speakers' performance in the word problems subtest, but maths computation was the only significant predictor for English-native speakers. These results raise questions about the suitability of word-problems-curricula for assessing the maths abilities of different populations.
20 Using prompt videos to improve problem-solving skills
Andrew Stewart-Brown
Independent researcher
The article describes the development of a resource to support candidates for the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust's (UKMT) Challenges. It describes how the Challenges were introduced in a school and how they work. The data provided by the UKMT in its Yearbooks and the pedagogical value of the Challenges as a means of encouraging problem-solving are considered. The interventions undertaken to support candidates over the years, which culminated in the development of the prompt videos, are discussed. Academic research on prerequisites for teaching and learning problem-solving is addressed and leads to a description of how prompt videos address students' difficulties. The program of research and work for the next year is outlined.
21 Exploring the relationship between preschoolers' pattern awareness and mathematical understanding
Ziyan Wang
This study analyses data from Thouless and Gifford's pattern project to address two research questions: (1) Whether preschoolers' pattern awareness and mathematical understanding influence each other? And in what ways? (2) Whether the improvement of preschoolers' pattern awareness advances their mathematical understanding? I conducted ordinal logit regression and paired t-tests to analyse the data. The results indicated that there is a correlation between children's pattern awareness and mathematical understanding. Preschoolers' mathematical understanding has limited influence on their pattern awareness, whereas their pattern awareness has a noticeable impact on their mathematical understanding. The findings also suggest that the improvement of pattern awareness leads to the advancement of mathematical understanding, and that pattern awareness was improved by training. However, the practice of pattern awareness should be targeted and provide children with enough experience. Meanwhile, not all aspects of pattern awareness led to progress in mathematical understanding.
22 How to make practice more perfect? How to make practice more productive?
Sze Man Yeung and Taro Fujita
Graduate School of Education, University of Exeter
Although practice is regarded as a crucial component for promoting procedural fluency, it is always stereotyped as mechanically repeating steps and being over-simplified to 'More practice makes perfect'. This phenomenon might result from the incomplete understanding of conceptual and procedural knowledge. Therefore, it is necessary to reposition the role of procedural learning by introducing deep procedural learning. Deep procedural knowledge refers to the cognitive understanding of the computational processes and flexible use of computational strategies. Purposely designed productive practices, which aim at developing higher-order thinking when practising essential procedural skills, are expected to prompt the deep procedural learning. To evaluate the progress of procedural learning by using productive practice, theoretical framework about the relationship between deep procedural learning and mathematical thinking is introduced in this paper.
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The Daily Aztec • December 11, 2019 • http://thedailyaztec.com/97738/artsandculture/bands-battle-for-greenfest-spot/
Bands battle for GreenFest spot
Aaliyah Alexander
Battle of the Bands threw down on December 5th.
by Aaliyah Alexander, Contributor
R&B singer and songwriter Ariel Imani took home the first place prize.
Battle of the Bands fanatics rushed into Montezuma Hall on Thursday, Dec. 5 to cheer on artists that competed for a spot to be the opening act for this coming up year's GreenFest Concert.
The concert will be held at Cal Coast Open Theater in March 2020. The headliner for the 2020 Greenfest festival is still unknown, but last year's lead act was R&B singer Daniel Caesar, so the pressure was high for student bands.
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Single Status Struggles
(please see today's update further down this post)
Further to my previous post, 'New pay proposals - resistance growing...' I copy below a letter (which I have anonymised) from a member of the support staff at a large comprehensive school in Llanelli sent to all Carmarthenshire County Councillors last week. It concerns the new single status and job evaluation proposals. As I said before I am aware that this is a delicate and difficult issue for all concerned but for such fears to be expressed so late in this process clearly indicates that further negotiations between management and staff are paramount;
Dear Councillor
I am the longest serving member of the support team at *** School and I write to you, as a county councillor in respect of a recent letter the support staff have received from Carmarthenshire County Council regarding Single Status.
The County Council Management are proposing to unilaterally alter wages and terms and conditions of service under the Single Status agreement without full consultation and agreement with unions and employees.
All members of our admin team and many other members of staff at the school have lost a considerable amount of money, some of them, thousands of pounds – these are people who are not highly paid, have worked for the school for years, always gone the extra mile allowing the school to run smoothly. Letters were sent to our homes for us to open when we returned home from work on Friday night 2nd September, many people spent the weekend distraught worrying about how they were going to meet mortgage payments, household bills etc.
At the same time many of the offers have inconsistencies in them such as incorrect job titles, incorrect scorings, incorrect hours - some people have still not received their pack so are unable to even begin assessing their situation.
Yes, there is an option to appeal, but surely the obvious errors should be put right first.
The Council is insisting that we sign the agreement by 30th September or we will forfeit the £1000 plus £250 sweetener awarded to gainers, losers will lose the offer of compensation (they have not been offered the extra £1000 sweetener).
The method of Job Evaluation used is not able to address the functions of staff in schools where it is commonplace for them to take on multiple roles and it would appear that the assessments are only reflecting the lower skills. Also, it varies greatly from school to school as to skill levels required within individual roles.
In short, the loyal, long, serving support staff at the school feel they are being bullied into accepting this agreement.
I hope you find this situation as appalling as I do.
I understand that there is a full council meeting this week and I ask that you and your fellow councillors ask that the matter of Single Status be reviewed, that the Chief Executive reopens negotiations with the unions and most importantly that the 30th September deadline is extended to allow time for all the errors, anomalies and inconsistencies to be rectified so as employees can make a balanced, rational choice.
I trust I may rely on your support in this matter and look forward to your early response.
Thank you for support
There are worries, for example, that even those who stand to gain from the changes will, on close inspection of the small print, realise their terms and conditions have been attacked meaning they will lose out anyway.
The Carmarthenshire branch of Unison issued this message on the 16th September;
"Today, Paul Thomas (Assistant Chief Executive) sent an email to all staff.
It urges you to hurry up and sign.
UNISON's advice still stands: this scheme may be unlawful.
Don't rush to sign away your terms and conditions, or
your right to bring an equal pay claim against your employer.
UNISON, Unite and GMB meet the Chief Executive next Wednesday
to discuss Job Evaluation issues, including;
- employees not seeing the job description they have been graded for
- employees not seeing the local conventions used to grade jobs
- not seeing a sample of the COT3 agreement
- a clear explanation of how the COT3 will affect your employment rights
- the short amount of time you have been given to consider your position.
Job Evaluation has been going for over ten years. But the Council gives you
less than a month to decide to sign away your rights.
Many councillors are concerned over these timescales and how cuts
in wages and terms & conditions will affect lives.
The Labour Group has expressed its fears to the Chief Executive.
They have asked for the deadline to be postponed.
And it's not just councillors. MPs Jonathan Edwards and Nia Griffith and
AM Keith Davies have all made a statement.
To quote Llanelli's MP, "Staff feel they're being bullied into signing. They
have had less than a month, which is just not long enough for everyone
to have the chance to take advice and
think about the implications."
UNISON urges you not to rush into signing your rights away.
Support the unions and an increasing number of county councillors,
in calling for the deadline to be postponed for two months and for the
Council to meet with trade unions and councillors to discuss a
more equitable way forward.
UPDATE 19th September;
I have copied below an email sent this morning from senior council officers to all County Councillors urging them to refuse to help any members of staff who may come to them with their concerns over the new proposals - it even includes a draft letter for them to use to refuse any requests. How such advice conflicts with the right of residents to contact their elected representatives I have no idea.
"Dear councillor
You may well receive communication from individual members of staff seeking your assistance with their results under the job evaluation scheme.
We are aware that one of the trade unions at least has prepared standard letters for their members to send to elected Members. I know that some Members are also being asked to attend meetings with groups of staff (for example, in your role as a school Governor). I have provided text for a standard letter of response which you may find useful as a basis for your reply if you so wish, below.
Please be aware that the authority has a duty to treat all of our employees equally. At the moment they have all been assessed in exactly the same way by independent panels of officers who have been trained in how to use the agreed evaluation scheme. The trade unions were involved in these panels also.
If elected Members seek to become involved and to influence the outcome in favour of some staff, when others may not have had this same facility, the independence and fairness of the process will immediately come under challenge. The authority - and individual Members - could be subject to complaints in these circumstances.
This is particularly the case since, as elected Members, you are effectively the ultimate employers of all our staff.
I should point out that we as Chief Officers need to exercise just as much caution. Directors and Heads of Service have not carried out the assessments. They were undertaken by independent panels, including trade union representatives. Chief Officers are not responsible for individual assessments because consistent, fair treatment for everyone requires independence and the certainty that the same approach is taken in every part of the authority. We too have to ensure that we could not be accused of favouring some groups of staff over others.
We have a responsibility to ensure that this fair, equal and consistent treatment for every single employee is maintained.
Please also be advised that there is a danger that if you give advice to an employee and they subsequently feel that this advice was wrong and disadvantaged them that you could well find yourself subject to a complaint.
I hope this information is of assistance and I do appreciate that these contacts from staff may put you in a difficult position. If you need any further information or advice please do not hesitate to ask."
Draft letter:
Dear….
Thank you for your letter regarding your Job Evaluation results.
I am afraid that as individual councillors we are not able to assist individual employees or groups of staff in the process. All jobs must be assessed by an independent panel who have been trained in the assessment scheme. If individual councillors were to start to engage in dialogue with individual employees or groups of employees, or seek to influence the results, then it could call the whole exercise into question. The entire purpose of job evaluation is so that everyone is assessed equally and fairly. Once individual councillors seek to interfere in this process on behalf of some individuals or groups of staff that independence and fairness is lost.
You will be aware that there will be an appeals procedure designed to ensure that if someone feels there has been a mistake that it can be challenged and rectified.
I hope you will appreciate my reasons as to why I am unable to become involved.
Cllr .................."
Update 24th Sept; Doesn't look like the meeting on the 21st September between management and Unions went too well, the Council refused to extend the deadline and the unions now considering strike action;
http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/Union-action-threat-council-talks-fail/story-13395730-detail/story.html
Absolutely don't rush to sign. If anyone thinks they have been wrongly scored, or have evidence they are beinf paid below comparable roles, there is, in the end, such as thing as suing under the Equality Act 2010. For those who really will suffer to the point of not being able to meet payments, you're as well to seek your union's advice on ways forward. Don't forget, an employer will often pay handsomly for you to go quietly, which may be acceptable to some.
There is always more than the option the employer gives you. Take it from one who's been through the mill.
The Labour Group may well have expressed concerns, but perhaps they first need to wake up and remind themselves that they are part of the ruling coalition which is pushing these proposals through. Anyone who has seen Kevin Madge ("Mark James is the best chief exec. in Wales") or any of the other Labour members patting both themselves, their Independent mates and the officers on the back for their myriad successes and achievements, may be puzzled as to what the hell they have been doing for the last 10 years.
The rank and file members include many decent, honourable people, but they are lions led by donkeys.
why are we paying for these people who call themselves our elected representative (councillors)when they are no more than lapdogs.Iam disgusted if this is what they do
As interesting as the Template letter is, it is perhaps more important to see the way that the Council Officers are influenced in a threatening way by the Council Officers little short of blackmail.
What the Council Officers are saying to the Councillors is that they cannot represent their constituents or else they could be taken to task.
This really is an Officer Run Council.....
Please see the following instructions from a high ranking Council Officer to the Councillor on what they should do if they are asked to support the people who voted for them:
We are aware that one of the trade unions at least has prepared standard letters for their members to send to elected Members.
I know that some Members are also being asked to attend meetings with groups of staff (for example, in your role as a school Governor).
I have provided text for a standard letter of response which you may find useful as a basis for your reply if you so wish, below.
Please be aware that the authority has a duty to treat all of our employees equally.
At the moment they have all been assessed in exactly the same way by independent panels of officers who have been trained in how to use the agreed evaluation scheme.
The trade unions were involved in these panels also.
If elected Members seek to become involved and to influence the outcome in favour of some staff, when others may not have had this same facility, the independence and fairness of the process will immediately come under challenge.
The authority - and individual Members - could be subject to complaints in these circumstances.
I should point out that we as Chief Officers need to exercise just as much caution. Directors and Heads of Service have not carried out the assessments.
They were undertaken by independent panels, including trade union representatives.
Chief Officers are not responsible for individual assessments because consistent, fair treatment for everyone requires independence and the certainty that the same approach is taken in every part of the authority.
We too have to ensure that we could not be accused of favouring some groups of staff over others.
I hope this information is of assistance and I do appreciate that these contacts from staff may put you in a difficult position.
If you need any further information or advice please do not hesitate to ask.
(PLEASE NOTE THAT THE COUNCIL OFFICERS DIVULGE THEMSEVES OF ANY RESPONSIBILITY - WELL THEY WOULD WOULDN'T THEY)
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79% of Organizations Have Experienced an Identity-Related Security Breach in the Last Two Years According to New Identity Defined Security Alliance Study
Along with Study, IDSA Publishes Identity Defined Security Outcomes Library to Help Organizations Make Sense of Complex Identity and Security Technology Landscape
May 14, 2020 08:00 ET | Source: Identity Defined Security Alliance
DENVER, May 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA), an industry alliance that helps organizations leverage existing cybersecurity investments to establish a stronger security posture, today released a study titled, "Identity Security: A Work in Progress," which is based on an online survey of 502 IT security and identity decision makers. The report highlights trends in identity-related security and what forward thinking companies are doing differently to reduce the risk of a breach.
The number of workforce identities in the enterprise is growing dramatically, largely driven by DevOps, automation, and an increase in enterprise connected devices, which will only continue to accelerate identity growth. At the same time, compromised identities remain one of the leading causes of a data breach. According to the study, the vast majority of IT security and identity professionals have experienced an identity-related breach at their company within the past two years, with nearly all of them reporting that they believe these breaches were preventable.
"When approaching identity security, professionals must first consider a range of desired outcomes, or results they want to achieve, and then chart their paths accordingly," said Julie Smith, executive director of the IDSA. "According to security and identity professionals, these outcomes are still a work in progress, with less than half reporting that they have fully implemented any of the identity-related security outcomes that the IDSA has initially identified as critical to reducing the risk of a breach. In fact, the research shows a clear correlation between a focus on identity-centric security outcomes and lower breach levels."
Key Research Findings
Identity-related breaches are ubiquitous
94% have had an identity-related breach at some point
79% have had an identity-related breach within the past two years
66% say phishing is the most common cause of identity-related breaches
99% believe their identity-related breaches were preventable
Identity security is a work in progress
Most identity-related security outcomes are still in progress or planning stages
Less than half have fully implemented key identity-related security outcomes
71% have made organizational changes to the ownership of identity management
Forward-thinking companies are showing results
Forward-thinking companies are much more likely to have fully implemented key identity-related security outcomes
Only 34% of companies with a "forward-thinking" security culture have had an identity-related breach in the past year — far fewer than the 59% of companies with a "reactive" security culture
Identity Defined Security Outcomes Library
Today, the IDSA also published its latest iteration of the Identity Defined Security Framework. In addition to IDSA Best Practices, the framework now also consists of a library of identity defined security outcomes and implementation approaches. An Identity Defined Security Outcome is a desired result that improves an organization's security posture and reduces the risk of a breach or failed audit. Included with each Identity Defined Security Outcome are vendor-neutral implementation approaches, which are well-defined patterns that combine identity and security capabilities. The library will continue to be expanded in the coming months.
To access the IDSA's Identity Defined Security Outcomes library, visit https://securityoutcomes.www.idsalliance.org/.
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Wesley Langat
African NGOs Call for Reduction in Coal, Oil and Gas at African Union Summit
As the world endeavors to tackle climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions it's very critical for world economies to shift their consumption of energy from fossils fuels in order to meet the globally agreed climate goals laid down in the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Africa's Response to Climate Change
Therefore, more than 25 organizations, networks and community resistance groups from Africa and around the world, in a communiqué signed by the group called on African governments to prevent the proliferation of coal, oil and gas in Africa and to ensure efforts to address fossil fuels match those which have helped reduce the danger from nuclear weapons.
In a recently concluded Africa Energy Leaders' Summit on Climate Change, Energy, and Energy Finance in Addis Ababa-Ethiopia attended by representatives from different NGOs which includes MELCA-Ethiopia, Oil Change Africa, Health of Mother Earth Foundation, Oxfam, Friends of the Earth, the deCOA Lonize Campaign and Power Shift Africa demands the urgent need of African governments to upscale their efforts and strengthen their response to climate change.
"The group criticized the deliberate proliferation of coal, oil, and gas in Africa, contrary to scientific evidence and highlighted the contradiction between planned fossil fuel expansion and globally agreed climate targets," read the press statement.
IPCC: Sub-Saharan Africa is Particularly Vulnerable to Negative Effects of Climate Change
Although Sub Sahara Africa emits 2 to 3 percent of the world's carbon dioxide emissions from energy and industrial sources, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that the continent is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Indeed, the frequency and intensity of droughts and floods have already worsened in many parts of Africa and its bad effects will increase in future.
The activists noted that the rapidly rising threats of fossils fuels as the major driver of climate change crisis in Africa also deserved the same efforts that match the magnitude and the speed at which weapons of mass destruction are confronted.
The group specifically called on African leaders to: "put an end to fossil fuel development; to manage the decline of existing production of oil, gas, and coal; and to rapidly initiate a transition to clean and safe renewable sources of energy that fully supports access to energy for those who currently lack it."
They also asked them to "publicly condemn and reject the double standards advanced by fossil fuel companies and their allied interests, who result in the discriminatory treatment of Africa and her peoples."
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Need to Go Down By At Least 25 Percent by 2030
According to 2019 emission gap report indicated that by 2030, emissions would need to be 25 per cent and 55 per cent lower than in 2018 to put the world on the least-cost pathway to limiting global warming to below 2˚C and 1.5°C respectively. Alvin Munyasia, from Oxfam International says that all coal must end immediately, and all other fossil fuels phased out by 2050 – with rich countries ditching them fastest to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees.
"No new coal power plants should be built anywhere, and the last existing plant needs to be closed in wealthy countries at the very latest by 2030 and in all countries by 2040," he insisted.
Additionally, the advocacy group further called on their African leaders to fast-track and rapidly initiate a transition to clean and safe renewable sources of energy that fully supports access to energy for those who currently lack it." They also ask them to "publicly condemn and reject the double standards advanced by fossil fuel companies and their allied interests, who result in the discriminatory treatment of Africa and her peoples."
Access to alternative sources of clean energy is vital for African countries towards the realization of Paris Agreement and Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development .Mohamed Adow, Director of climate and energy think tank Power Shift Africa highlighted the fossil fuel industry as an existential threat to Africa and the world – and to have chance of meeting the Paris Agreement goal of limiting warming to below 1.5C degrees, international cooperation is required to prevent the proliferation of coal, oil and gas, at the scale and speed required to stabilize the Earth's climate.
"African countries investing in fossil fuels risk creating stranded assets, and an un-managed and disorderly transition from fossil fuels. We can either intentionally develop new ways to meet our energy needs without increasing our emissions or altogether lose the window of opportunity to ensure a safe climate and a sustainable future."
Consistent Climate Change Policies are Sorely Needed
The 2019 UN environment emission gap report further indicates that to attain a significant global energy sector transition requires consistent climate change policies that concord well with the Paris agreement goal. This will require huge investments to between US$1.6 trillion and US$3.8 trillion per year globally on average over the 2020–2050 to improve global energy systems.
In this regards, Omar Elmawi, Coordinator for the deCOALonize Campaign, mentioned that Sub- Sahara Africa present huge opportunities for renewable energy. "The abundance of renewable energy like wind, solar and geothermal makes it possible for Africa to leapfrog dirty fossil fuels like coal that countries in the west had to rely on for their development." Omar said.
But some African countries have already made substantial progress in tapping into vast renewable energy to power their economies. South Africa has developed the largest wind energy while Morocco, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Kenya are following suit with both wind and solar energy generation thus increasing competition to fossil fuels.
As the world embraces the energy transition away from fossil fuels to low-carbon solutions, there is potential to disrupt existing power dynamics .Nthabiseng Matsoha, Earthlife Africa's Researcher and Energy Policy Officer says that it's high time the continent's renewable energy potential benefited ordinary people. This is especially important as we move towards a 'just transition' to a decarbonized world. Community ownership models should be explored, to not only benefit but to empower.
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Children On the Frontline
Desert Locust Outbreak Threatening Fragile Food Security In The Horn Of Africa
Climate Change Increases Food Prices in Sub-Saharan Africa
Transforming the World for Women's Reproductive Rights
The UN Calls for Action Over Climate Change Crisis in Djibouti
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The Programme that Reunifies Refugee Families
Access to Renewable Energy Transforms Lives in Africa
Evolving Trade Agreements in Africa


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Q: JPA/Hibernate select query returning duplicate records I have a table ,say, Instrument with ID,State, and User_ID as columns.
So I have this JPA query to return all the instrument records with a matching
User_ID.
   query = manager.createQuery("SELECT instrument from Instrument instrument
             where instrument.User_ID=:User_ID",Instrument.class);
   query.setParameter("User_ID", User_ID);

   List<Instrument> instruments=  query.getResultList();

   for(Instrument instrument:instruments){
            System.out.println("Instrument ID  "+instrument.getID());
              // using sysout as it is not prod code yet
        }

It is returning only the first record repeated as many times as there are matching records.
11:13:01,703 INFO  [stdout] (http-/127.0.0.1:8080-1) Instrument ID   1
11:13:01,704 INFO  [stdout] (http-/127.0.0.1:8080-1) Instrument ID   1
11:13:01,704 INFO  [stdout] (http-/127.0.0.1:8080-1) Instrument ID   1

I have three records in Db with instrument IDs 1,2, and 3
I enabled show sql query on hibernate and the query runs fine on the Database directly
and returns distinct records.
Hibernate Query:
    select instrumentjdo0_.User_ID as member_U1_0_, instrumentjdo0_.ID as ID2_0_,
instrumentjdo0_.state as state4_0_ from instrument instrumentjdo0_ where instrumentjdo0_.User_ID=?

Instrument Entity
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.Table;

@Entity
@Table(name = "instrument")
public class Instrument{

    @Id
    @Column(name="User_ID", length=9, unique=true, nullable=false)
    String user_ID;

    @Column(name="ID",nullable=false)
    String ID;

    @Column(name="state",nullable=false)
    String state;

    public String getID() {
        return ID;
    }

    public void setID(String ID) {
        this.ID = ID;
    }

    public String getUserID() {
        return user_ID;
    }

    public void setUserID(String userID) {
        this.user_ID = userID;
    }

    public String getState() {
        return state;
    }

    public void setState(String state) {
        this.state = state;
    }
}

Not sure what I am missing.

A: I also had faced same issue.
    For contact table i marked only firstname column as @Id.
    And table had multiple rows with same firstname due to which first row record with same firstname was getting duplicated in entire result set.
    To resolve  this issue i made IdClass with first name and last name as id attribute and imported it as id class in my bean.
    Since firstname and lastname together form unique combination, it resolved my issue.
Idclass as below
public class ContactKey implements Serializable{

    protected String firstName;
    protected String lastName;

    public boolean equals(final Object inObject) {
        if (null != inObject) {
            if (inObject.getClass().equals(this.getClass())) {
                CqCamAdminKey siteKey = (CqCamAdminKey) inObject;
                return (null != this.getFirstName() && this.getFirstName().equals(siteKey.getFirstName()) && null != this.getLastName() && this.getLastName().equals(siteKey.getLastName()));
            }
        }
        return super.equals(inObject);
    }

    public int hashCode() {
        if (this.getFirstName() != null && this.getLastName() != null) {
            return this.getFirstName().hashCode() + this.getLastName().hashCode();
        }
        return super.hashCode();
    }
}

bean class as below
@IdClass(contactKey.class)
public abstract class CqCamAdminDataBean implements DataModelConstants{

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 7686374823515894764L;

    @Id
    @JsonIgnore
    @XmlTransient
    @Column(name = FIRST_NAME)
    protected String firstName;

    @Id
    @JsonIgnore
    @Column(name = LAST_NAME)
    protected String lastName;

}

A: Issue with @Id column, If we check closely, @Id column value is same for all the rows. Hence hibernate/JPA not able to get different records, it just get 1st record with this @Id and return duplicate records of it.
Solution - Use @IdClass with columns which result in unique row instead of duplicate row.

A: The issue was that the wrong column in the Instrument Entity had the @ID attribute assigned to it.
I removed it from User_ID and Added it to ID and it worked fine.

A: Make sure to specify DISTINCT in your JPQL query: "SELECT DISTINCT instrument from Instrument instrument where instrument.User_ID=:User_ID". For scalar queries, DISTINCT essentially removes underlying duplicates from the result set.

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Home Research > Members > 1820-1832 > ONSLOW, Arthur (1759-1833)
ONSLOW, Arthur (1759-1833), of Send Grove, nr. Guildford, Surr.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1820-1832, ed. D.R. Fisher, 2009
b. 3 Aug. 1759, o.s. of Arthur Onslow, collector of customs, of Childwall, Liverpool, Lancs. and Alice, da. of Stephen Sumersett.1 educ. Trinity Hall, Camb. 1775-6; M. Temple 1775, called 1780. m. (1) 9 Apr. 1793, Mary (d. 14 May 1800), da. of Francis Eyre of Hassop, Derbys., s.p.; (2) 13 June 1801, Pooley, da. of Sir George Onslow† of Dunsborough House, Surr., wid. of Sir Francis Samuel Drake, 1st bt., s.p. suc. fa. 1807. d. 8 Oct. 1833.
Commr. of bankrupts 1781-1800; sjt.-at-law 16 June 1800; king's sjt. 1816; chairman, Surr. q.sess. 1807; recorder, Guildford 1819-30.
Lt. Guildford vol. inf. 1803; capt. Liverpool custom house vols. 1804.2
Onslow, whose father's customs post was said at his death in 1807 to be 'one of the most lucrative offices under the government', was the residuary legatee of his estate, which amounted to over £26,000.3 Onslow's second marriage to a distant cousin brought him Send Grove, 'a handsome mansion', and closer links to the ennobled Surrey branch of the family, which paved the way for his return for Guildford in 1812. It also proved financially advantageous, for in 1826 he won a case to establish his late wife's right to a half-share in the personalty of her first husband, which came to £9,100, in addition to her £15,000 marriage settlement.4 As a lawyer, according to the family historian, Onslow 'acquired a considerable reputation in the court of common pleas and on the home circuit', but a less partial biographer, recalling his 'tall and slender' and 'gentlemanly, if not majestic appearance', assessed him as 'highly respectable ... though by no means one of the first class'. A contemporary at the bar lampooned his ponderous delivery and occasional misplaced emphasis in the epigram:
The heavy tongu'd blow
Of Serjeant Ons-low.5
He came in for Guildford for the third time in 1820.
He was a regular attender who continued to give general support to Lord Liverpool's ministry, although he occasionally displayed his independence. He voted in the minority against the appointment of an additional Scottish baron of exchequer, 15 May 1820. On 14 June he claimed to have the support of Birmingham chamber of commerce for a change in standing orders to subject all trade regulation bills to the scrutiny of a select committee before they received a first reading. This proposal was itself referred to a committee, which reported on 23 June, and the standing order was adopted after he had spoken in its favour, 5 July.6 (Three years later he was appointed to a committee to reconsider it, as it was evidently found to be too restrictive, and it was duly rescinded, 30 May 1823.) When, in the debate on the Queen Caroline affair, 18 Sept. 1820, he suggested the introduction of a bill to permit the Commons to examine witnesses under oath, Creevey accused him of acting as an agent provocateur for a government intent on restricting rights of inquiry. Yet he divided against the omission of the queen's name from the liturgy, 23, 26 Jan., 13 Feb., arguing that it should not be treated as a matter for 'party spirit', 23 Jan., and that it was an 'illegal act', 31 Jan. 1821. On the other hand, he voted in defence of ministers' conduct towards the queen, 6 Feb. Four days later he reportedly seconded Stuart Wortley's motion accusing the Morning Chronicle of a breach of privilege, 'out of compassion, as for at least two minutes no one ... seemed inclined to do so'; he vainly urged the mover to withdraw.7 In presenting a Guildford petition in support of the queen, which also called for action on parliamentary reform, 12 Feb., he agreed that 'a wholesome reform was necessary', and later that day he spoke in favour of transferring Grampound's seats to Leeds. However, he voted against the disfranchisement of ordnance officials, 12 Apr., and condemned Lambton's general reform plan as 'more obnoxious' than universal suffrage, 18 Apr., arguing that aristocratic influence in elections to the Commons was not excessive and trusting that 'great property, high character and amiable manners would always maintain their influence on that House'. He opposed repeal of the Blasphemous and Seditious Libels Act in the belief that 'the disposition to excite the people to tumultuous meetings still existed in full force', 8 May, and in the debate on Peterloo, 15 May, he denied that the yeomanry constituted a 'political soldiery'. As a champion of the legal establishment and its officials he defended Justice William Draper Best† (his former colleague at Guildford) for fining a defendant for contempt of court, 23 Feb., 19 Apr. He dismissed a petition from an inmate of Lancaster gaol complaining of ill-treatment as 'a foul and infamous calumny', 7 Mar., and 'saw no reason' for the strictures passed on the commissioners inquiring into the state of the English courts, 9 May. On 12 Apr. he introduced a bill to make a university degree a condition of admission for attorneys and solicitors, which stemmed from a select committee on which he had served; the bill gained royal assent, 8 June (1 & 2 Geo. IV, c. 48). Although his first wife had been a Catholic, he continued to divide against relief, 28 Feb. He voted against repeal of the additional malt duty, 3 Apr., but for inquiry into the currency, 9 Apr. He supported relaxation of the Navigation Acts, 25 June 1821.
Onslow's primary interest was in securing the repeal of the usury laws, a cause he had espoused since 1816. These laws, which regulated the level of interest rates, were routinely evaded but, as with his earlier successful campaign to remove the apprenticeship laws from the statute book, he ran into strong opposition, chiefly from the landed interest. Having stated his intention of reintroducing a repeal bill, 7 July 1820, he did so on 12 Apr. 1821, when he cited Bentham as an authority against the control of interest rates. The bill made no further progress and he consented to its withdrawal, 8 June.8 Another bill, to regulate the acceptance of bills of exchange, was introduced on 12 Apr., and, after amendment by the Lords, gained royal assent, 2 July 1821 (1 & 2 Geo. IV, c. 78). He welcomed the prospect of the regulation of annuities, by which the usury laws were frequently avoided, 30 May 1822.9 When, after delays, he again brought forward his repeal bill, 22 Apr. 1823, he gave a potted history of his previous endeavours. The House finally divided by 38-15 to enter into committee, 17 June, but the bill was defeated at the report stage by 26-21, 27 June 1823. Onslow reintroduced it, 11 Feb., and having extolled the benefits of 'full, fair and open competition in the money market', he carried the second reading by 120-23, 16 Feb. 1824. After repeated postponements he secured the bill's recommittal by 74-58, 8 Apr. 1824, but opponents then divided the House four times on details and finally defeated it by 67-63 on the timing of its future consideration.10 The indefatigable Onslow tried again, 8 Feb. 1825, in the hope that the prevailing spirit of free trade would make the time ripe for his measure. When his opponents tried unsuccessfully to force a division on the first reading, he was urged by his allies to abandon conciliation. The lesson he gave to the House on the principles of competition, 17 Feb., was to no avail, and the second reading was lost by 45-40. In reintroducing the bill again, 15 Feb. 1826, he asserted that had its provisions already been in force, 'the late panic and its attendant distress would have been much mitigated'. Frustrated again by postponements, he was mollified by the home secretary Peel's promise to consider the issue as part of a general review of fiscal policy, and agreed to withdraw the bill, 17 Apr. 1826. The government did not adopt the measure, and Onslow left its promotion thereafter to others.
He divided against more extensive tax reductions, 11, 21 Feb., and abolition of one of the joint-postmasterships, 13 Mar. 1822. However, he protested against the tax on coals, 20 Feb.11 He voted against relieving Catholic peers of their disabilities, 30 Apr., and for the aliens bill, 19 July 1822. He divided against Hume's tax-cutting amendment, 3 Mar. 1823. He voted against repeal of the Foreign Enlistment Act, 16 Apr., and inquiries into the prosecution of the Dublin Orange rioters, 22 Apr., and delays in chancery, 5 June. He tried to thwart discussion of Scottish parliamentary reform by raising a procedural point, 2 June 1823. Early in 1824 his bid to be considered for legal promotion was not taken seriously by ministers: Henry Hobhouse, under-secretary at the home office, described as 'very impudent' his letter to lord chancellor Eldon 'showing his readiness to take the vacant mastership in chancery and insinuating that he would not take the Welsh judgeship if it were offered to him'.12 He gave encouragement to an attempt to reform the bankruptcy laws, 18 Feb., and spoke in favour of the aliens bill, 2 Apr. He voted against the motion condemning the prosecution of the Methodist missionary John Smith in Demerara, 11 June 1824. He divided for the Irish unlawful societies bill, 25 Feb., and against Catholic relief, 1 Mar., 21 Apr., 10 May (paired), and the Irish franchise bill, 26 Apr. 1825. He opposed Hume's resolutions on the Irish church establishment, 14 June.13 He voted for the financial provision for the duke of Cumberland, 30 May, 6, 10 June. He opposed a local measure of tithe commutation because it 'interfered with the vested interests of the church', 6 June.14 He declared that elderly judges were 'neither deaf nor peevish', 17 June 1825. He voted to maintain the salary of the president of the board of trade, 10 Apr. 1826. He divided against reform of Edinburgh's representation, 13 Apr., but for Russell's resolutions against electoral bribery, 26 May, although he did not think the problem was widespread. He denied that the blasphemy laws interfered with freedom of opinion, 17 Apr. 1826. He was again returned unopposed for Guildford at the general election that summer.
Onslow's subsequent parliamentary activity was less conspicuous, probably owing to incipient blindness.15 In response to a petition, he maintained that provision for Deists and other non-Christians to swear oaths in court already existed, 29 Nov. 1826. He divided against Catholic relief, 6 Mar. 1827. In his familiar role as defender of the legal establishment, he attested to the 'great talents and unimpeachable integrity' of Eldon and the efficiency of the bankruptcy commissioners, 13 Mar. He was granted leave to go the circuit, 16 Mar. 1827. He voted for repeal of the Test Acts, 26 Feb., and against Catholic relief, 12 May 1828. He endorsed calls for his fellow king's serjeant William Rough to be compensated for his wrongful suspension as president of the supreme court of Demerara, 15 May. That day he denied that the lower orders would be hurt by repeal of the usury laws, the promotion of which had by then passed to Chales Poulett Thomson. Instancing Guildford, he argued that borough magistrates would not resent sharing responsibility for alehouse licensing with the county authorities, 21 May. He warmly welcomed the Wellington ministry's statement of intent to act against slavery, 25 July 1828. In February 1829 Planta, the patronage secretary, predicted that he would side with government for Catholic emancipation, but he was granted leave to go the circuit, 6 Mar. 1829, and no record of any parliamentary activity for that session has been found. His final oratorical flourish was a defence of the grant for new churches, 8 June 1830, when he blamed the dissolution of the monasteries for the failure to construct new churches and for the problems of pluralism and non-residence. He also attributed the alleged poverty of the Irish church to a tithe commutation measure carried by that country's Parliament. He voted in the minority to postpone on-consumption in beerhouses, 1 July 1830. He retired at the dissolution that summer, owing to a 'total loss of sight'.16
William IV, on his accession, granted Onslow precedence before other king's serjeants, and he continued to attend court with his accustomed diligence and punctuality until his death in October 1833.17 While a legal biography speculated that his 'considerable practice' must have made him a wealthy man, it is apparent that an unspecified financial calamity had befallen him. In leaving small legacies to the sons of his cousin, Francis Allison of Liverpool, his will noted that 'had not circumstances over which I had no control much reduced the fortune I once possessed, I would have left them much more substantial marks of my regard'. Send Grove passed to his brother-in-law, the Rev. Arthur Onslow. He left the residue of his estate to his barrister nephew Richard Onslow, 'whom having lived with me from his earliest infancy ... I regard with the same affection as though he had been my own son'; his personalty was sworn under £600.18
Author: Howard Spencer
1. Surr. Hist. Cent. 173/1/5, 4th earl of Onslow, 'Hist. Onslow Fam.' v. 1444.
2. Ibid. v. 1445.
3. Gent. Mag. (1807), ii. 1081; PROB 11/1474/134; IR26/132/192.
4. Onslow, v. 1442-3; H.W. Woolrych, Eminent Serjeants-at-Law, ii. 774; The Times, 3, 14 July 1826.
5. Onslow, v. 1451; Woolrych, ii. 802-4; J. Grant, Bench and Bar, ii. 26, 28.
6. The Times, 6 July 1820.
7. HLRO, Hist. Coll. 379, Grey Bennet diary, 33.
8. The Times, 9 June 1821.
9. Ibid. 31 May 1822.
10. Ibid. 31 Mar., 9, 10 Apr. 1824.
11. Ibid. 21 Feb. 1822.
13. The Times, 15 June 1825.
14. Ibid. 7 June 1825.
15. Woolrych, ii. 801.
16. Gent. Mag. (1834), i. 227.
17. J.H. Baker, Order of Serjeants-at-Law, 61; Grant, ii. 26-27; The Times, 10 Oct. 1833.
18. Grant, ii. 25; Onslow, v. 1403; PROB 11/1823/651; IR26/1334/659.