ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

Reflecting on his more recent experience as a policy analyst for RAND Corporation, a public policy research organization, Holmes doesn’t think it makes much sense that he had to hunt down the chance to try more difficult math. It was the first publication based on RAND’s American Mathematics Educator Study. That can work out.

Math 296

Math Algebra Calculus Mathematics 296

ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. It’s common for her to hear, “Oh, you know, I decided to be an elementary school teacher because I don't want to teach math.” Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths? The concept just wasn’t intuitive. isn’t working.

Math 308

Math Algebra Elementary Critical Thinking 308

Newton STEM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The Newton Schools Foundation ‘s Year-End Annual Appeal seeks funds to support innovative programs in Newton Public Schools. The Calculus Project: Research indicates that success in higher-level high school mathematics is strongly associated with college enrollment and is one of the most reliable predictors of college completion.

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Calculus Schooling Mathematics Math 45

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

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. I broke that mold on the day that a substitute lecturer addressed my Ph.D. There is a way we can connect."

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Schooling Education Education Energy 209

ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

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). In the 2021-22 school year, I moved to an elementary school in Santa Rosa, California. I spent the first 3.5 For the past 1.5 What has been the most challenging and rewarding part of your job?

Teaching 261

Teaching Algebra Schooling Math 261

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 23, 2023

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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Computer Mathematics Math Achievement 145

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

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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Computer Calculus Construction Accessibility 102