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Indoor STEM Activities for Kids

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Below are five engineering activities that use everyday items: Popsicle Stick Bridges: Use popsicle sticks and glue to construct bridges. This experiment teaches about impact forces and materials science. This is a fun way to explore geometric shapes and stability in construction.

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How can we make STEM subjects more engaging for students?

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for STEM achieved so far? My proudest education achievement is passing the Teaching Certification Exam. I implement a constructiveness approach to teaching, and attempt to present material in a structured, yet engaging manner. What are your proudest career achievements so far? What has T.I.M.E The partnerships that T.I.M.E

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Behind the screens: the crystals that flow like rain down a windowpane

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He uses these key factors to construct mathematical models that capture the key physical effects of nematic behaviour. Everything in natural science can be reduced to physics. I think you are always a physicist, whatever field of science you work in. It requires skills that don’t always come naturally to mathematicians.

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

Stephen Wolfram

When most working mathematicians do mathematics it seems to be typical for them to reason as if the constructs they’re dealing with (whether they be numbers or sets or whatever) are “real things”. And we can think of that ultimate machine code as operating on things that are in effect just abstract constructs—very much like in mathematics.

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Numbers and networks: how can we use mathematics to assess the resilience of global supply chains?

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Mathematically, these records make it fairly easy to construct a supply chain network,” says Zach. WHAT ARE YOUR PROUDEST CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS SO FAR? These data mostly come from compliance reports that companies must submit to be registered on the stock market. WHAT DOES A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A MATHEMATICIAN LOOK LIKE?

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

For three centuries theoretical models had been based on the fairly narrow set of constructs provided by mathematical equations, and particularly calculus. Sometimes they have been based on constructing programs to reproduce behavior. Computer science is about programs and computations that we humans construct for certain purposes.

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

Stephen Wolfram

It began partly as an empirical law, and partly as something abstractly constructed on the basis of the idea of molecules, that nobody at the time knew for sure existed. But, first and foremost, the story of the Second Law is the story of a great intellectual achievement of the mid-19th century. Coarse-grained variables.

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