Argumentation Calculus Education Research 
ED Surge
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Educators and parents started this school year with bated breath. But while working with schools and colleges across the globe as we conducted research for our book , we realized that most interventions don’t address systemic issues causing mental health problems in the first place. Does this sound like a healthy work-life balance?
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. 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
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National Science Foundation
SEPTEMBER 22, 2021
Researchers and policy makers have pushed to open that gate—providing more students access to algebra, focusing in particular on those students historically denied access to higher-level mathematics. Yet we have not seen equal advances in achievement (National Center for Education Statistics, 2019). Hacker, 2012).
Stephen Wolfram
JANUARY 31, 2023
Sadi Carnot was born in 1796, and was largely educated by his father until he went to college in 1812. Sadi Carnot was by that point a well-educated but professionally undistinguished French military engineer. Lazare Carnot died in 1823.
Stephen Wolfram
JANUARY 9, 2024
we’ve been steadily delivering the fruits of our research and development in.1 And, yes, our Wolfram U operation is now emerging as a significant educational entity, with many thousands of students at any given time. So did that mean we were “finished” with calculus? of Wolfram Language and Mathematica. there are 6602.
Robert Talbert, Ph.D.
APRIL 15, 2022
But if you were reading a research article and the author used a sample size of n = 1, how would you react? An argument for traditional grading goes like this: Sure, a single assessment might have a grade on it that doesn't accurately reflect student understanding. It makes sense as long as you don't think about it.
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). In the mid-1990s, researching history for my book A New Kind of Science , (as I’ll discuss below) I had a detailed email exchange and long phone conversation with Ed about this. It’s just my nature.
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