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Are Students’ Math Futures Being Unwittingly Set By Tracking?

ED Surge

When Pierrce Holmes entered ninth grade, his school put him in 9C, a lower-level algebra class. He was switched over to the more advanced class, which taught algebra II and geometry. It was the first publication based on RAND’s American Mathematics Educator Study. Oh, do you want to try? “Oh, Oh, do you want to try?,”

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Math Instruction Isn’t Working. Could Better Teacher Training Help?

ED Surge

Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. That mindset reflects a broader cultural anxiety, and when teachers don’t like the subject it hinders student achievement. “I Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths? The concept just wasn’t intuitive. isn’t working.

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They Started Teaching During the Pandemic Year. Where Are They Now?

ED Surge

years of my career at Weehawken High School, where I taught Algebra I (students in grades seven to nine) and AP Calculus (grades 11-12). years, I have been teaching Algebra I and geometry for grades nine and 10 at Becton Regional High School. I spent the first 3.5 For the past 1.5

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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. The website showcases work at film festivals and on over 100 public broadcast and cable channels.

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ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!

Stephen Wolfram

The whole process of “prompt engineering” feels a bit like animal wrangling: you’re trying to get ChatGPT to do what you want, but it’s hard to know just what it will take to achieve that. In the past, one might have tried to achieve this “by hand” by starting with “boilerplate” pieces, then modifying them, “gluing” them together, etc.

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

So many discoveries, so many inventions, so much achieved, so much learned. And key to everything we do is leveraging what we have already done—often taking what in earlier years was a pinnacle of technical achievement, and now using it as a routine building block to reach a level that could barely even be imagined before.

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Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language + Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

Any integral of an algebraic function can in principle be done in terms of our general DifferentialRoot objects. When you do operations on Around numbers the “errors” are combined using a certain calculus of errors that’s effectively based on Gaussian distributions—and the results you get are always in some sense statistical.