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The Role of Mathematics in Education

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Or perhaps, amidst a particularly challenging calculus problem, you’ve questioned how this abstract world of numbers and symbols could possibly influence your future career? College and Mathematics: Challenges The Complexity Cliff Remember the first time you looked at a calculus problem in college? Well, you’re not alone.

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Fall STEM Activities

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Using this data, they can model the rate mathematically, using calculus to find rates of change or predict future leaf drop rates. The Mathematics of Leaf Drop Description: Students collect data on the rate of leaf drop from specific trees throughout the fall season.

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How to Teach STEM Every Day

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Revel in that feeling of accomplishment that comes with doing the impossible–finding the answer to a calculus formula (or division problem) or programming a robot to walk across the room. It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein. Through My Window.

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Is Computer Science STEM – The Link Between the Two

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While the science aspect (chemistry, biology, and physics) and mathematics (calculus and algebra) is a breeze to figure out, the engineering and technology aspects are less straightforward. Nonetheless, defining STEM can be an uphill battle as it’s a popular term with several meanings to many people.

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Why Choose STEM? The Best STEM Careers for 2018

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Architecture You’re probably wondering how architecture falls on this list yet it isn’t exactly related to any of the STEM fields. Architecture depends on scientific laws that are combined with artistic design. Get more information at course information page for Web Development and Design.

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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. Wolfram Language has a very open architecture, where a user can add or modify pretty much whatever they want. But what about from the ChatGPT side?

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What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

Stephen Wolfram

It’s not obvious that it would be feasible to find the path of the steepest descent on the “weight landscape” But calculus comes to the rescue. It turns out that the chain rule of calculus in effect lets us “unravel” the operations done by successive layers in the neural net. There are several key parts.

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