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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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If We’re Serious About Student Well-Being, We Must Change the Systems Students Learn In

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Research shows that excessive homework leads to increased stress, physical health problems and a lack of balance in students' lives. That’s troubling because studies show that students who take AP classes and exams are twice as likely to report adverse physical and emotional health.

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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

Stephen Wolfram

And one of the stunningly beautiful things—at least for a physicist like me—is that the same phenomenon that in physical space gives us gravity, in branchial space gives us quantum mechanics. It’s because we’re observers like us that we perceive the laws of physics we do. Human minds who think alike are nearby.

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Free Lesson Plans from Study.com

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Study.com is an online distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and physics) aligned with many popular textbooks. Students and you can watch the videos and access the lessons from a desktop, a tablet, or a smartphone. **.

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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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The Most Underrated Computer Science Career: Quantitative Analysis

STEMe

In short, the stock market is a physical or virtual marketplace in which shares of a company are traded between individuals or companies for monetary value. Quantitative traders routinely use highly complex mathematics, such as stochastic calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, and discrete mathematics to create these models.

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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

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Most are about five minutes (some longer, some shorter) and cover topics like chemistry, physics, calculus, geometry, biology, Algebra, trigonometry, grammar, ACT prep, and SAT prep. C-Span Classroom is free but requires registration to access materials. Explore.org. ” Kudos to their ability to achieve that goal.

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