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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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As of the 2025 AP exam revision, are Physics C mechanics and Physics C E&M two separate year long courses now? (No.)

Jacobs Physics

On February 29 2024, the College Board released the course and exam descriptions for the revised version of all four AP Physics courses. For the AP Physics C exams, the course content will not change. However, all AP physics exams - P1, P2, C-mechanics, and C-E&M - will be in an identical format as of the 2025 exams.

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Expression Evaluation and Fundamental Physics

Stephen Wolfram

And it’s all based on ideas from our Physics Project —and on a fundamental correspondence between what’s happening at the lowest level in all physical processes and in expression evaluation. And this is where we can start making an analogy with physics. And now there’s a deep analogy to physics.

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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. 29 Counting the Emes of Mathematics and Physics. 1 | Mathematics and Physics Have the Same Foundations. 3 The Metamodeling of Axiomatic Mathematics. Graphical Key.

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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. Mathematical Physics.

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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. And those who do take calculus-based physics transition to using coordinate systems as if they were native Cartesians.