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The Role of Mathematics in Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

Mathematics: The Language of Computer Science Theoretical Foundations At the heart of computer science lies a rich tapestry of mathematical concepts. From algorithms and data structures to cryptography and database systems, mathematics provides the theoretical foundation that underpins these areas.

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How can we make future places healthier spaces?

Futurum

This project is investigating how computing, the internet of things and data science can generate information that people can use to make their future places healthier. DATA SCIENCE – encompasses preparing data for analysis, including cleansing, aggregating and manipulating the data to perform advanced data analysis.

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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

ED Surge

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. With other classroom tools, I have to collect the data myself. And the data usually boils down to student grades,” York explains.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

However, upon closer inspection, the university admissions team can see that the second candidate worked part-time after school to financially support themself, so had less time to dedicate to their studies, and they lived in a poorer neighbourhood and attended a lower-achieving school.

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Hard vs Soft Skills in STEM Education

STEM Sport

For instance, data analysis skills are crucial in identifying trends and making data-driven decisions, while mathematical reasoning is essential for solving intricate engineering problems. Hard skills directly apply in various STEM fields, from physics to computer science.

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Tynker Review

The Maker Mom

Tynker can serve as a complete computer science curriculum and includes all the tools and resources instructors need to succeed. Electives provide chances for advancement and certification after proficiency has been achieved. The target audience at Tynker is students, K-12, but they also offer their services to educators.

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Helping social studies teachers to teach data literacy with Teaspoon languages

Computing Education Research Blog

Teaspoon languages: Support learning tasks that teachers (typically non-CS teachers) want students to achieve; Are programming languages, in that they specify computational processes for a computational agent to execute; and Are learnable in less than 10 minutes, so that they can be learned and used in a one hour lesson.

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