Wisconsin Science and STEM Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Supports conclusions with logical arguments. Supports conclusions with logical arguments. See this year in assessment overview for a HS physical science class for some ideas on how that might work out. Demonstrates understanding of science concepts. Collects, interprets, and applies data. Grades 4-5 1. Grades 6-8 1.

Argumentation 40

Argumentation Mathematics Data analysis Science 40

Futurum

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

A key rule of physics is that heat energy moves from high-energy to low-energy areas. Through evaluating evidence and mapping out arguments, students can practice this important aspect of scientific communication. This warming is uneven, with different areas receiving varying amounts of heat because of the shape and tilt of the Earth.

Geology 52

Geology Energy Communications Research 52

Futurum

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I strongly believe that the world needs engineers with strong critical thinking skills, who know how to ask questions, understand bias, construct and evaluate arguments, and think comprehensively and creatively. This goes hand in hand with ethical thinking.

Biology 84

Biology Agriculture Engineering Critical Thinking 84

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

And it’s all based on ideas from our Physics Project —and on a fundamental correspondence between what’s happening at the lowest level in all physical processes and in expression evaluation. And this is where we can start making an analogy with physics. And now there’s a deep analogy to physics.

Physics 108

Physics Computer Argumentation Construction 108

Futurum

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In forest ecology, SSMs use data on the absence, presence and/or abundance of plant and animal species in the current environment, combined with other information such as climate, physical features and land-use. It is inspiring to see the research mainstreamed and the arguments of “is climate changing?”

Research 78

Research Research Science Sciences 78

Jacobs Physics

JULY 20, 2021

With respect to AP Physics 1 in particular, I was asked: Do you expect AP students to use dimensional analysis (factor-label method) when converting units? I am considering the importance of the factor/label method to chemistry and its importance as a prerequisite skill to AP physics. is not useful in AP Physics 1, 2, or C.

Physics 40

Physics Chemistry Teaching Argumentation 40

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

But by the end of the 1800s, with the existence of molecules increasingly firmly established, the Second Law began to often be treated as an almost-mathematically-proven necessary law of physics. The theory of heat will hereafter form one of the most important branches of general physics.

Energy 88

Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

One might have thought it was already exciting enough for our Physics Project to be showing a path to a fundamental theory of physics and a fundamental description of how our physical universe works. Despite this, however, fundamental physics always seemed to resist its advance. The Path to a New Paradigm.

Physics 64

Physics Science Sciences Mathematics 64

Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Building on an earlier interest in space and spacecraft , I’d gotten very interested in physics, and was trying to read everything I could about it. There were several shelves of physics books at the local bookstore. The other books I’d read had all basically said “physics works like this”. The lambda hyperon.

Physics 94

Physics Computer Mathematics Science 94

Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

A key idea—ultimately supported at a foundational level by our Physics Project —is that we can think of everything that happens as a computational process. In 2019 I was doing another systematic enumeration, now of possible hypergraph rewriting rules that might correspond to the lowest-level structure of our physical universe.

Science 123

Science Sciences Computer Mathematics 123

Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Indeed, so confident was he of his programming prowess that he became convinced that he should in effect be able to write a program for the universe—and make all of physics into a programming problem. 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).

Computer 67

Computer Physics Science Sciences 67

Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Second Law of thermodynamics is considered one of the great general principles of physical science. Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. But our Physics Project has changed that picture. Why does the Second Law work?

Computer 92

Computer Energy Physics Construction 92

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

So, for example, here’s a graphical representation of a simple arithmetic evaluation, with TraceOriginal → True : And here’s the corresponding “pruned” version, with TraceOriginal → Automatic : (And, yes, the structures of these graphs are closely related to things like the causal graphs we construct in our Physics Project.)

Computer 103

Computer Calculus Construction Accessibility 103

Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 29, 2022

You can give Threaded as an argument to any listable function, not just Plus and Times : &#10005. we’re adding SymmetricDifference : find elements that (in the 2-argument case) are in one list or the other, but not both. If we define a month “physically”, it corresponds to a certain fractional number of days: &#10005.

Calculus 114

Calculus Construction Computer Argumentation 114

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

One might have thought it was already exciting enough for our Physics Project to be showing a path to a fundamental theory of physics and a fundamental description of how our physical universe works. Despite this, however, fundamental physics always seemed to resist its advance. The Path to a New Paradigm.

Science 65

Science Sciences Physics Mathematics 65

STEMe

JUNE 16, 2023

However, König had another theory to form the entire argument around this artifact. König believed that the artifact was from the Parthian period, specifically from 250 BCE to 224 CE, although later analysis proved that the artifact was likely from the Sassanid dynasty, which lasted from 224 CE to 640 CE.

Argumentation 52

Argumentation Engineering Energy Achievement 52

Stephen Wolfram

MAY 20, 2021

But sometimes it’s much more convenient to get the subgraph (and in fact in the formalism of our Physics Project that subgraph—that we view as a “ geodesic ball ”—is a rather central construct). And in fact our whole Physics Project was basically made possible by the rich graph functionality in the Wolfram Language. So in Version 12.3

Computer 52

Computer Construction Physics Technology 52