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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. This story also appeared in USA Today Falling off that path can lock students out of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers. Some educators place a share of the blame on calculus courses, which can push out otherwise interested students.

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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 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 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.

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The Most Underrated Computer Science Career: Quantitative Analysis

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The stock market is the crown jewel in the capitalist crown—being able to trade pieces of ownership in companies, also known as stocks, in order to fund further growth has increased competition, advanced technology, and has increased the overall wealth in our society today. But how does the stock market really work? Shaw, who founded D.E.

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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. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 25 years. How to get started.

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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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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

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Topics include languages, music, technology, social studies, science, engineering, maths, journalism, and more. 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. Explore.org.

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