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Robotics and Computer Science for Elementary Level Learners

User Generated Education

I absolutely love all of the new robotics toys that have been coming out for elementary age learners. Our vision is that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science, just like biology, chemistry or algebra. One of my gifted girls noted, “Where do all of these robots come from?”

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Space Explorations, Science Fiction Writing, Shadow Puppet Shows: An Interdisciplinary Unit

User Generated Education

I’ve discussed offering electives to my gifted elementary students. Agrinautica is designed for 4th and 5th graders learning mathematical expression-building and order of operations, important pre-algebra skills. My group of 2nd/3rd graders chose space. They then selected planets to learn and research about.

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The Benefits of Cross-Curricular Instruction 

STEM Sport

By implementing this at the elementary and middle school level, educators are preparing them for success in high school and college courses. For a long-term project, students can choose a historical monument, research it, create architectural plans for their building and then construct it using a variety of materials.

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Students Are Busy but Rarely Thinking, Researcher Argues. Do His Teaching Strategies Work Better?

ED Surge

These are the students who end up hitting a wall when math courses move from easier algebra to more advanced concepts in, say, calculus, he argues. “At So they left their habits at the door and then they were willing to construct new habits inside this setting. At some point, mimicking runs out,” says Liljedahl. This is human nature.

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ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!

Stephen Wolfram

But then mathematical notation was invented, and math took off—with the development of algebra, calculus, and eventually all the various mathematical sciences. And when I was writing my book An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language this became particularly obvious.

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LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

We introduced Duration to apply to explicit time constructs, things like Audio objects, etc. that isn’t directly related to typing, but will help in the construction of easy-to-navigate user interfaces. Squiggled : By default, all these constructs persist through evaluation. What about other kinds of constructs?

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

Stephen Wolfram

When most working mathematicians do mathematics it seems to be typical for them to reason as if the constructs they’re dealing with (whether they be numbers or sets or whatever) are “real things”. And we can think of that ultimate machine code as operating on things that are in effect just abstract constructs—very much like in mathematics.