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Equity and Access in Math Education

ED Surge

Families with social and economic capital tend to provide their children with more educational tools and opportunities, including enrichment activities, access to technology and familiarity with the learning process. Although there are many causes for the achievement gap, one merits special scrutiny.

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Don’t Give Up on Algebra: Let’s Shift the Focus to Instruction

National Science Foundation

In its current form, school algebra serves as a gatekeeper to higher-level mathematics. Researchers and policy makers have pushed to open that gate—providing more students access to algebra, focusing in particular on those students historically denied access to higher-level mathematics. Domina et al., 2017; Stein et al.,

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How can first-year STEM university students be better supported?

Futurum

Library and research skills cover areas such as knowing how to reference and cite authors properly, being able to discern between reliable and unreliable sources of information, accessing scientific literature and giving accurate evidence-based arguments when writing scientific essays and reports.

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How to Master Math Wooden Manipulatives Get Your High Score

STEM Education Shopping

For example, if you have a fraction bar that’s divided into four equal parts, you can see that each part represents one-fourth. By combining two of these bars, you can visually see that two-fourths is equal to one-half. This hands-on approach makes it much easier to grasp the concept of fractions and perform operations with them.

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LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

The Wolfram Language is important to LLMs—in providing a way to access computation and computational knowledge from within the LLM. We’ve always built—and deployed—Wolfram Language so it can be accessible to as many people as possible. And in Mathematica and the Wolfram Language that’s achieved with Integrate.

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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

But beginning a little more than a century ago there emerged the idea that one could build mathematics purely from formal axioms, without necessarily any reference to what is accessible to sensory experience. and at t steps gives a total number of rules equal to: &#10005. So how about logic, or, more specifically Boolean algebra ?

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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

How do we achieve this? Let’s say that we’re trying to achieve the objective of having an efficient transportation system for carrying people around. The same is true of axioms for areas of abstract algebra like group theory—as well as basic Euclidean geometry (at least for integers). But there is a subtlety here.