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STEM Career Spotlight: Women In STEM

Accelerate Learning

Historically, women in STEM are often overlooked, undervalued, and even discouraged from pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. But today, women in STEM are breaking barriers, shattering glass ceilings, and achieving incredible accomplishments that are changing the world.

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

ED Surge

Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. But there’s also a quieter revolution taking place that applies a different strategy to achieve the same principles. It left an impression.

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

ED Surge

Calculus is a critical on-ramp to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Students majoring in biology saw the biggest bump.) But getting to those careers means surviving the academic journey. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

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How can first-year STEM university students be better supported?

Futurum

At the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg in the US, biologists Barbara Barnhart and Dr Olivia Long are using their Science Seminar programme to ease this transition for first year students studying biology, chemistry and biochemistry degrees. One of their methods is a focus on case studies, looking at specific issues in detail.

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

Newton STEM

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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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

Stephen Wolfram

Mathematics. But in the 1600s came the idea of modeling things with mathematical formulas—in which time enters, but basically just as a coordinate value. Even after everything our civilization has achieved, we’re just at the very, very beginning of exploring rulial space. These are all ways to formalize the world.

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Game Based Learning and Gamification in Maths teaching

Scientix

Gamers learn through repetition, failure, goal achievement in a risk-free environment and it is important that teachers use play to shape the learning experiences they create for their students. 2), written in mathematical language: Fig.1 The child’s desire to play is an innate biological response to survive in the world.