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How can first-year STEM university students be better supported?

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If you have the option, take a statistics course and mathematics courses beyond algebra,” says Barbara. The future of science lies in embracing diversity and ensuring equal opportunities for all. Be open to constructive criticism and actively listen to other perspectives. Do you have a question for Barbara or Olivia?

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How to Master Math Wooden Manipulatives Get Your High Score

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For example, if you have a fraction bar that’s divided into four equal parts, you can see that each part represents one-fourth. By combining two of these bars, you can visually see that two-fourths is equal to one-half. This hands-on approach makes it much easier to grasp the concept of fractions and perform operations with them.

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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.

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What can stars reveal about galaxies and what can cultures reveal about stars?

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LIGHT-YEAR – the distance travelled by light in one year (equal to ~9,000,000,000,000 km). Raja was part of the team that created the first ever digital photo mosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, constructed by stitching together 57 images taken by a ground-based telescope. SPECTROSCOPY – the study of the wavelengths of light from a star.

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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

Presumably it’s that we can sample space without having to think about time, or in other words, that we can consistently construct a stable notion of space. The same is true of axioms for areas of abstract algebra like group theory—as well as basic Euclidean geometry (at least for integers). But there is a subtlety here.

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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

It’s yet another surprising construct that’s arisen from our Physics Project. For integers, the obvious notion of equivalence is numerical equality. In some ways it’s a bit like our efforts to construct the ruliad. The whole continuum of all real numbers is “from the outside” in many ways a simple construct.

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