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Evidence Is Mounting That Calculus Should Be Changed. Will Instructors Heed It?

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Calculus is a critical on-ramp to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Good news: There's mounting evidence that changing calculus instruction works for the groups usually pushed out of STEM. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

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Grades 7-10: Register by Mar. 5 for MIT SPARK (Mar. 16-17)

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Here are STEM courses offered: Making art with Robots Linux and open source software Introduction to Programming in OCaml Better Coding with Vim: Intro to Keybinds and Configuration Web Development Crash Course Tales of the Americas through biology and genetics It’s Not Rocket Science (Wait, Yes It Is!) Digging Deeper: 4.65

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Dear Educators, a Balm for Deep Cuts: Navigating Racial Microaggressions at School

ED Surge

This meant I was consistently rewarded at school for putting my head down and striving to be a “good student” and “high achiever,” but never for challenging authority or speaking up when something was wrong. When Whitney Aragaki, a high school biology and environmental science teacher in Hawaii, hears “What kind of Asian are you?”,

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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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A crisis of clarity: can defining biodiversity help us protect the natural world?

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FIELD OF RESEARCH: History and Philosophy of Biology. Charles focuses on the philosophy of one specific branch of science: biology. The philosophy of biology contemplates questions surrounding evolution, genetics, life and, more recently, humanity’s impact on the natural world. WHAT ARE YOUR PROUDEST CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR?

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century. Kelvin’s ideas about the inevitable dissipation of “useful energy” spread quickly—by 1854, for example, finding their way into an eloquent public lecture by Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894).

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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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