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Fall STEM Activities

STEM Sport

Educational Benefit: This activity introduces students to classification and basic math concepts. Educational Benefit: This activity encourages observational skills and offers a hands-on introduction to plant biology and the life cycle. They can then graph or chart their findings using simple drawings.

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STEM Programs: How to Choose the Right Major

STEM Education Guide

If your child is gifted in the arts of math or science, it’s not a bad idea to encourage a STEM career. It’s an acronym that encompasses science, technology, engineering, and math. It includes topics such as chemistry, biology, physics, astronomy, and geology. Math in STEM. Types of Stem Programs.

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Launching Version 13.1 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica ??????

Stephen Wolfram

Needless to say, you can do this computationally—though the “calculus” of what’s been defined so far in Unicode is fairly bizarre: &#10005. brings up a palette for math typesetting. lets you enter that will be converted to Wolfram Language math typesetting. and are still in the toolbar for inserting math into a text cell.

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What should mathematics majors know about computing, and when should they know it?

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Yesterday I got an email from a reader who had read this post called What should math majors know about computing? My students are using Geogebra , Wolfram|Alpha , and Excel every week in Calculus; LaTeX in my proof-oriented classes; Mathematica in my linear algebra and Calculus 3 classes; and so on.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

He’s writing a paper, he says, basically to clarify the Second Law, (or, as he calls it, “the second fundamental theorem”—rather confidently asserting that he will “prove this theorem”): Part of the issue he’s trying to address is how the calculus is done: The partial derivative symbol ∂ had been introduced in the late 1700s.

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