Poncelet used it, not for any applied purpose, but as a teaching and demonstration aid.

Around the world, abaci have been used in pre-schools and elementary schools as an aid in teaching the numeral system and arithmetic.

Basic English, also known as Simple English, is an English-based controlled language created ( in essence as a simplified subset of English ) by linguist and philosopher Charles Kay Ogden as an international auxiliary language, and as an aid for teaching English as a Second Language.

In 1878 Surgeon-Major Peter Shepherd, together with Colonel Francis Duncan established the concept of teaching first aid skills to civilians.

They are still often broadcast on television and used as a teaching aid.

Besides using pieces as an aid to teaching various elements of playing style, a good teacher will also inspire more intangible qualities such as expressiveness and musicianship.

Richer described Gerbert's use of the armillary sphere as a visual aid for teaching mathematics and astronomy in the classroom, as well as how Gerbert organized the rings and markings on his device:

The French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace, working at the École Polytechnique in Paris, recommended the machine for use as a teaching aid, and thus it came to the attention of Léon Foucault.

Prosection is the direction in which many current medical schools are heading in order to aid the teaching of anatomy and some argue that dissection is better.

Also there are many more aids to teaching anatomy then merely the prosectorium ; improvements over the last century in colour images and photographs means that an anatomy text is no longer an aid to dissection but rather a central material to learn from.

This may seem like a relatively obvious idea but to formally link it into teaching of anatomy should aid memory recall.

Dawkins then describes his experiences with a more sophisticated computer model of artificial selection implemented in a program also called The Blind Watchmaker, which was sold separately as a teaching aid ( open source implementations are currently available, as are more advanced versions of the idea ).

versuum Aeneidos principalium: another teaching aid, using question and answer to dissect the first twelve lines of the Aeneid.

Instead, it provides a visual pictorial of the Pure Land texts, and is used as a teaching aid.

Spilsbury used the product to aid in teaching geography.

Though untouched areas adjacent to the original excavations were left undisturbed awaiting a more precise dating of Roman pottery types, the " Baths of the Swimmer ", named for the mosaic figure in the apodyterium, were meticulously excavated, in 1966 – 70 and 1974 – 75, in part as a training ground for young archaeologists and in part to establish a laboratory of well-understood finds as a teaching aid.

Adult volunteers in each area worked with boys in teaching outdoor skills, first aid, athletics, swimming, citizenship and leadership.

No controversy seems to have arisen as a result of Paschasius ’ treatise, which he first composed likely as a teaching aid and dedicated to one of his former students.

During this time, Armstrong also reflected on starting a college to aid the growing church, by teaching and training young men and women.

In 1886, in Paris, a small group of language teachers formed an association to encourage the use of phonetic notation in schools to help children acquire realistic pronunciations of foreign languages and also to aid in teaching reading to young children.

The term is also used for life-sized dolls with simulated airways used in the teaching of first aid, CPR, and advanced airway management skills such as tracheal intubation and for human figures used in computer simulation to model the behaviour of the human body.

To aid his teaching of dissection, in 1775 Hunter commissioned sculptor Agostino Carlini to make a cast of the flayed but muscular corpse of a recently executed criminal, a smuggler.

It was used mainly as a teaching aid, but, gradually, intellectuals started to play it for pleasure.

You might say, for example, that radio is a bigger help to literacy than television, but television might be a very wonderful aid to teaching languages.

Just as in the case of every prodigy child, we must watch for the efficacy of my teaching to show up in the future -- if he should master all the strenuous exercises I inflicted on him.

She left the next day for her teaching job at Princeton, Illinois.

Hence all teachers, good and bad, who have been teaching for a given number of years are paid the same salary.

During the war, we set up schools for the teaching of psychological warfare, which included the teaching of propaganda, both black and white and the various shades of grey in between.

It also maintains shops for the design and fabrication of exhibits, training aids and instruments and libraries for the loan of films and teaching lantern slide sets.

Nine new teaching Clinico-pathologic Conference sets were prepared, which makes a total of 70 types of teaching sets for loan.

The demand for teaching sets continues unabated since they provide the means for the military physicians to review the pathology of selected disease processes or organ systems for review of basic sciences and correlation of clinical physiological behavior with structural changes.

No good way to evaluate teaching ability has yet been discovered, although some institutions use inventory sheets for a list of criteria.

The local decorator who rushes in for a few hours of teaching may but more likely may not have these qualifications.

He felt certain for the first time in his teaching experience that the men in the class understood that orgasm, as a criterion, is not nearly so essential for a satisfying female sexual experience as most males might think.

It would have been desirable for the two communities to have differed only in respect to the variable being investigated: the degree of structure in teaching method.

Again, in deciding on the content and method of his teaching, does he favor a curriculum which will make his students stronger competitors in the race for higher economic status, or does he favor a curriculum which strengthens students in other ways??

Check on the schools in the area, the quality of teaching, and the provision for transportation to and from them.

She helped with teaching as well as office work for a few years -- the catalogues show that she had classes in geography, rhetoric and bookkeeping.

Masu is also teaching in a municipally-sponsored school for Japanese widows in Tokyo.

This would provide for long-term Federal loans for construction of parochial and other private-school facilities for teaching science, languages and mathematics.

They will be for teaching, agriculture and community development in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.