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The Role of Mathematics in Education

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The Role of Mathematics in Education: What Professions You Can Get in the Future Have you ever found yourself pondering the real-world applications of those algebraic formulas or geometric theorems you spent hours trying to decipher in school? Cryptography and Security In the digital age, security is paramount.

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Bias, assumptions and emotions: why we think what we think

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© Gorodenkoff/shutterstock.com Thinking machines The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been heralded by some as the start of the age of ‘machines that think like us’, but Andy thinks we still have a way to go. AI will continue to get better, but my guess is that it will think differently to people for a long time,” says Andy.

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Plugging in: directly linking the brain to a computer

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Artificial intelligence (AI) — computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence. Recent advances in AI, material sensor technologies and attention to user-friendliness in computer hardware have spurred BCI research, taking it from pure academia into the world of industry,” he explains.

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Top Tech Tools for Equity and Accessibility

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Developed in collaboration with researchers at the Harvard School of Education, students read aloud and the tool collects data on fluency and accountability (think words correct per minute and total time read, among others) and a recording and transcript of their reading. And all of a sudden I'm taking Algebra 2, I'm taking Calculus.

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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

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A few centuries ago the development of mathematical notation, and what amounts to the “language of mathematics”, gave a systematic way to express math—and made possible algebra, and calculus, and ultimately all of modern mathematical science.

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Can machine learning cope with the erratic and uncertain nature of the real world?

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However, in the last decade, the capabilities of artificial intelligence have been expanding at break-neck speed. At the University of Southern California , USA, Dr Haipeng Luo has been conducting innovative new research in the field of machine learning to bring these exciting technologies within reach.

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ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!

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But then mathematical notation was invented, and math took off—with the development of algebra, calculus, and eventually all the various mathematical sciences. Starting in the 1960s there’d been efforts among AI researchers to develop systems that could “understand natural language”, and “represent knowledge” and answer questions from it.

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