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Don’t Give Up on Algebra: Let’s Shift the Focus to Instruction

National Science Foundation

Similarly, reformers have focused on the timing of the course, aiming to enroll students as early as possible to open pathways to calculus and to diversify access to higher level mathematics. Yet we have not seen equal advances in achievement (National Center for Education Statistics, 2019). 2017; Stein et al.,

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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. But in other ways it’s also a cautionary tale, of how the forces of “conventional wisdom” can blind people to unanswered questions and—over a surprisingly long time—inhibit the development of new ideas.

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Why Choose a STEM Career?

CTE Learning

With STEM, customary gender roles are broken, and it gives way to equality in every possible way. Many designer prefer being freelancers as it allows them more flexibility to work and live where they want and to choose the projects and clients they want to work for. It isn’t just students that will benefit from STEM.

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Why Choose a STEM Career?

CTE Learning

With STEM, customary gender roles are broken, and it gives way to equality in every possible way. Many designer prefer being freelancers as it allows them more flexibility to work and live where they want and to choose the projects and clients they want to work for. It isn’t just students that will benefit from STEM.

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Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language + Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

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. Also in the area of calculus we’ve added various conveniences to the handling of differential equations. &#10005.

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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

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. 3 | The Metamodeling of Axiomatic Mathematics. &#10005.

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Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

Indeed, the Zeroth Law of thermodynamics is essentially the statement that “statistically unique” equilibrium can be achieved, which in terms of energy becomes a statement that there is a unique notion of temperature. That anything like this makes sense depends, however, yet again on “perfect randomness as far as the observer is concerned”.