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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

ED Surge

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Some educators place a share of the blame on calculus courses, which can push out otherwise interested students. Meanwhile, the calculus instruction has to be slowed down enough that it’s not as effective for math people as it could be. “I

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Tech Teacher Appreciation Week May 6-10, 2024

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They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus. There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics.

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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

Stephen Wolfram

And in our century there’s a new and yet more powerful one: computation. And for nearly 50 years I’ve had the great privilege of building an ever taller tower of science and technology based on that idea of computation. And I ended that talk with a question: is computation ultimately what’s underneath everything in our universe?

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The Most Underrated Computer Science Career: Quantitative Analysis

STEMe

More importantly, however, the advent of computers in the mid-1900s paved the way for a new, more advanced form of stock trading known as quantitative analysis, forever changing the state of the stock market. The trader will then instruct the computer to automatically buy the stock when it hits $25 and sell when it hits $30.

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9 Best Online Math Classes For Kids

The Maker Mom

Children between 6th and 12th grades can easily find an appropriate course in algebra, geometry, algebra 2, and pre-calculus. Kids get full access to this incredible system as members of the live classes, or they can get a monthly subscription starting at just $9.99 for a year of access.

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Study.com Makes the College Dream a Reality for Lots of Students

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Study.com (formerly called Education-Portal) is a distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, physics, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and more) aligned with popular textbooks. Lessons can be pushed out to the entire class or specific students. How to get started.

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Contending with the Unintended Consequences of History: Revisiting Brown v. Board of Education and the Need for Systemic Change in K-12 Education

National Science Foundation

Figure 1 illustrates the differences in access to STEM courses between schools with low enrollments of Black and Hispanic students versus those with high enrollments, with the most notable gaps existing in advanced mathematics, calculus, and computer science. 4346 - Chips and Science Act 117th Congress (2021-2022) [link] U.S.