ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The solution?
STEM Education Guide
MARCH 9, 2023
Recently, five of the eight Ivy League universities have reclassified their economics degrees from social science to science, technology, math, and engineering (STEM). Economics Employs Math for Concise Communication There’s no doubt that economics is part of the social sciences, given that it studies human behavior.
Stephen Wolfram
AUGUST 22, 2023
It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). Then McCarthy started to explain ways a computer could do algebra. It was all algebra. But suffice it say to that Ed’s old nemesis—calculus—comes in very handy. And he says “There’s a problem.
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