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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

ED Surge

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Some educators place a share of the blame on calculus courses, which can push out otherwise interested students. Meanwhile, the calculus instruction has to be slowed down enough that it’s not as effective for math people as it could be. “I

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New Effort Hopes to Make ‘Weed-Out’ Courses More Equitable

ED Surge

The project, funded from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and housed at Educause, prioritizes 20 key gateway courses, including introductory classes in biology, chemistry, English, economics and psychology, as well as math classes like algebra and calculus, and U.S. history surveys.

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Two Main Branches of Mathematics That Kids Need to Learn

STEM Education Guide

Elementary algebra is the most fundamental and the most abstract algebra is modern algebra. Elementary algebra is crucial for the study of engineering, science, medicine, and economics. Elementary algebra is crucial for the study of engineering, science, medicine, and economics. Number Theory.

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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

Stephen Wolfram

It’s a new paradigm—that actually seems to unlock things not only in fundamental physics, but also in the foundations of mathematics and computer science , and possibly in areas like biology and economics too. You know, I talked about building up the universe by repeatedly applying a computational rule. But how is that rule picked?

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Even beyond Physics: Introducing Multicomputation as a Fourth General Paradigm for Theoretical Science

Stephen Wolfram

But among the examples I’ve at least begun to investigate are metamathematics, molecular biology, evolutionary biology, molecular computing, neuroscience, machine learning, immunology, linguistics, economics and distributed computing. Chemistry / Molecular Biology. There are many.

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Multicomputation: A Fourth Paradigm for Theoretical Science

Stephen Wolfram

But among the examples I’ve at least begun to investigate are metamathematics, molecular biology, evolutionary biology, molecular computing, neuroscience, machine learning, immunology, linguistics, economics and distributed computing. Chemistry / Molecular Biology. There are many.

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How Can We Prepare STEM Teachers to Work and Thrive in Rural Schools?

National Science Foundation

chemistry, biology, and physics or both calculus and Algebra I) or to teach and work in other roles in the school such as coach and bus driver. The Mississippi Economic Review, 1, pp. For example, in small rural schools, teachers are often assigned non-traditional tasks and are asked to fulfill multiple roles. Anthony, K.,