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Data Science is Needed in the Classroom

CSTEM

Though data science may seem like a popular catchphrase in tech, it’s much more than that. Data science is being used across many industries and is a skill that is rapidly expanding to every career field. What is Data Science. How is Data Science Being Used.

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The Role of Mathematics in Education

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Finance and Economics: The Art of Numbers In the realms of finance and economics, mathematics is the brush with which professionals paint the picture of the market’s future. The development of new medical treatments often involves complex data analysis, making mathematics a crucial element in the quest to save lives.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

Futurum

However, Dr Emil Temnyalov , an economist at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, highlights the effects of socio-economic influences on these scores. While these are the areas of economics commonly in the news, the field is so much broader than this. Stock markets, unemployment, inflation and recession?

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8 Ways to Teach Financial Literacy

Cool Cat Teacher

Look at the FutureSmart Course Free from EVERFI Length of course: 7 modules taking 25 minutes each Grades: 6-8 Languages: English/Spanish Lesson Overview (PDF) Resource #3: SmartEconomics for Middle Schoolers SmartEconomics introduces middle schoolers to understand economics, market forces that impact consumer goods, and key economic concepts.

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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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U.S. Government Addresses Lack of Diversity in Cybersecurity

CSTEM

Unsurprisingly, resources and teachers’ knowledge of the subject is more prominent in private schools and economically privileged districts. Unfortunately, like other STEM subjects, cybersecurity deserts are prominent in economically disadvantaged and rural areas. It’s Time to Reach Out.

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

National Science Foundation

Researchers and policy makers have pushed to open that gate—providing more students access to algebra, focusing in particular on those students historically denied 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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