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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. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says. Some educators place a share of the blame on calculus courses, which can push out otherwise interested students.

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Two Main Branches of Mathematics That Kids Need to Learn

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In this guide, we’ll look at the two main branches of math that your kid needs to know. 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. What Is Mathematics? Number Theory.

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

Stephen Wolfram

1 Mathematics and Physics Have the Same Foundations. 2 The Underlying Structure of Mathematics and Physics. 23 The Physicalized Laws of Mathematics. How Math Relates to Humans. 29 Counting the Emes of Mathematics and Physics. 1 | Mathematics and Physics Have the Same Foundations. 5 Metamathematical Space.

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Why use energy bar charts?

Jacobs Physics

The usefulness of graphical representations over straight-up equations and calculations for understanding energy concepts has been well established in physics teaching literature for years. 3) It would be a LOT of work to change my materials not just to add in bar charts, but to de-emphasize algebraic algorithms.

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Directions of motion are "toward the detector" and "away from the detector".

Jacobs Physics

A fundamental principle of teaching first year physics students is to never trust a student with a negative sign. AP-level algebraic kinematics is one place where I haven't found a way to avoid a negative sign. So we talk about defining directions as "positive" and "negative" so the math works out.

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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

Stephen Wolfram

And one of the stunningly beautiful things—at least for a physicist like me—is that the same phenomenon that in physical space gives us gravity, in branchial space gives us quantum mechanics. It’s because we’re observers like us that we perceive the laws of physics we do. Human minds who think alike are nearby.

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Free Lesson Plans from Study.com

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Study.com is an online distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and physics) aligned with many popular textbooks. Resources include not only videos but study tools, guides, quizzes, and more. How to sign up.

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