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In College Math, Faculty Is Key. But Will This Insight Actually Help Students?

ED Surge

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

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Top Tech Tools for Equity and Accessibility

Cool Cat Teacher

Top Tech Tools for Equity and Accessibility 00;00;00;04 – 00;00;07;19 John Davis This is the Ten Minute Teacher Podcast with your host Vicki Davis. Extended Episode number 780 – Top Tech Tools for Equity and Accessibility. And all of a sudden I'm taking Algebra 2, I'm taking Calculus. Your district.

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Grading in my Discrete Mathematics class: a 3x3x3 reflection

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Here's the one from Winter 2021 for calculus and here's the one for modern algebra. This worked out really well since students got access to helpful resources and a break from time pressure, and I got more explanations of reasoning which led (in my view) to better data about student learning.

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How Can We Prepare STEM Teachers to Work and Thrive in Rural Schools?

National Science Foundation

Rural schools offer opportunities for leadership that may be more accessible than in larger, urban places. In smaller communities, teachers may find it easier to build relationships with students and their families or to engage in meaningful ways with a local community. 2021; Moffa & McHenry Sorber, 2018). Curriculum .

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ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!

Stephen Wolfram

And in the end, as we’ll discuss later, that’s a more flexible and powerful way to communicate. And writing this prompt is a strange activity—perhaps our first serious experience of trying to “ communicate with an alien intelligence ”. But ChatGPT has by this point learned a certain amount about writing Wolfram Language itself.

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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. But the advent of LLMs—and our new Chat Notebooks —opens up Wolfram Language to vastly more people.

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Career Exploration: Mathematics

PCS Edventures

Algebra , which incorporates unknown variables into arithmetic equations. Calculus , which calculates rates of change and infinites. Cryptographers combine cryptography, the science of designing algorithms for secret communication , and cryptanalysis, the study of breaking those designs.