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Best Online Debate & Public Speaking Classes For Kids

The Maker Mom

Their Debate & Speech Academy is open to upper elementary and high school students, nationally and internationally. The camps at American Debate teach students to research topics, create arguments for both sides and practice delivering speeches in front of others. Each student learns how to make arguments on age-appropriate topics.

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Connecting STEAM Education and Computer Science

Ellipsis Education

In a study focused on elementary students , STEAM-based curriculum was found to have positive influences on students. This study evaluated the three elements of scientific creativity: fluency, flexibility, and originality. It was found that STEAM-based courses significantly improved students’ fluency and flexibility.

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Boost Literacy with STEAM

PCS Edventures

Both Discover Digital Video LAB and Traveling Artist kits are flexible for in-person or distance learning. Well, in recent years, you may have noticed an increased focus on supporting scientific thinking with written and oral arguments. Click to View Full Size. Quantitative data plays an important role in STEAM. Author: Jessica Ventre.

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What is Python? Python Programming for Beginners.

Ellipsis Education

Which is a system used within Python in the event an argument passed to a function is a string, integer or whole number, the passing is like call-by-value because you cannot change the value of the immutable objects passed to the function. Python is a simple, flexible, and readable language, which makes it ideal for the intermediate coder.

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

In addition to whole courses, we have “miniseries” of lectures about specific topics: And we also have courses —and books—about the Wolfram Language itself, like my Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language , which came out in a third edition this year (and has an associated course, online version, etc.): is PositionSmallest.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

My first big success came in 1981 when I decided to try enumerating all possible rules of a certain kind (elementary cellular automata) and then ran them on a computer to see what they did: I’d assumed that with simple underlying rules, the final behavior would be correspondingly simple. Yes, there can be a lot of flexibility in this model.

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

Stephen Wolfram

One can view a symbolic expression such as f[g[x][y, h[z]], w] as a hierarchical or tree structure , in which at every level some particular “head” (like f ) is “applied to” one or more arguments. and zero arguments: α[ ]. &#10005. One step of substitution already gives: &#10005. &#10005. &#10005. or: &#10005.