Education A to Z

Education and Curriculum Terms: A Guide for Students and Teachers

Please note: This page explains a word or a process in education. It is general information about the system, the law and the guidance in England — not advice about your child, your school or your exam. If a decision is going against you, get advice from one of the free services we link to before you agree to anything or miss a deadline. If you are revising, check your own exam board's specification: boards word things differently and yours is the one that marks you.

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500 terms, showing 251–260 (page 26 of 50).

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Mitosis and meiosis

Two kinds of cell division. One makes copies, the other makes gametes.

Modal verbs and conditionals

Words like must, might, should and could — and what they do to certainty.

Moles and calculations

The chemist's counting unit, and the calculations built on it.

Momentum

Mass times velocity, and why it is conserved in every collision.

Motif

An image or idea that recurs through a text and accumulates meaning.

Movement analysis

Naming the joints, planes and muscles involved in a physical action.

Moving to a new area

Getting a school place after a house move, and what carries over.

Multi-agency working

Education, health and social care working together. Required, and frequently the gap.

Musical elements

The vocabulary for describing what is happening in a piece of music.

Musical structure

The shape of a piece: the sections and how they repeat.

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