National Science Foundation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

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. Let’s Not Be So Quick to Give Up on Algebra.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2015

In the face of mounting evidence, education experts accepted a prescriptive fact: student success is not measured by milestones like ‘took a foreign language in fifth grade’ or ‘passed Algebra in high school’ but by how s/he thinks. Persisting. Stick with a problem, even when it’s difficult and seems hopeless.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

How Math Relates to Humans. And in what follows we’ll see the great power that arises from using this to combine the achievements and intuitions of physics and mathematics—and how this lets us think about new “general laws of mathematics”, and view the ultimate foundations of mathematics in a different light. 27 Invented or Discovered?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. The most problematic strategy that many students try instead, he argues, is what he calls “mimicking,” which he has especially found in the math classes he studies.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 28, 2023

And in Mathematica and the Wolfram Language that’s achieved with Integrate. we’ve finally finished doing the math and creating the algorithms to introduce AppellF2 , AppellF3 and AppellF4. And over the years that’s exactly what we’ve achieved—for integrals, sums, differential equations, etc. And already in Version 4.0

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Ed was never officially a “test pilot”, but he told me stories about figuring out how to take his plane higher than anyone else—and achieving weightlessness by flying his plane in a perfect free-fall trajectory by maintaining an eraser floating in midair in front of him. Then McCarthy started to explain ways a computer could do algebra.

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Magic EdTech

MAY 13, 2022

Academic enrichment is offered within a small group setting and is available in a variety of subjects, such as math, science, and language. When confronted with real-world math problems with multiple answers, students will be able to think more creatively and flexibly. How Can Academic Enrichment Boost Student Success?

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