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Fall STEM Activities

STEM Sport

Educational Benefit: This activity encourages observational skills and offers a hands-on introduction to plant biology and the life cycle. Educational Benefit: This experiment helps students understand the Earth’s rotation, the changing angle of sunlight during the day, and the basics of astronomy.

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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. Let’s look at the main branches: Science in STEM. It includes topics such as chemistry, biology, physics, astronomy, and geology.

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

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

First, I know more computer science and computer programming now than I did in 2007. I’ve taken a MOOC on algorithms and read, in whole or in part, books and articles that contain significant discussions of computer science-y things like time complexity and NP-completeness. Mostly this is because of two things.

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

Stephen Wolfram

And in the past few months we’ve been steadily adding connections to the full range of popular LLMs, making Wolfram Language a unique hub not only for LLM usage, but also for studying the performance—and science—of LLMs. So did that mean we were “finished” with calculus? And in Version 14 there are significant advances around calculus.

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

Stephen Wolfram

Meanwhile, at the beginning of the 1800s Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) (science advisor to Napoleon) developed what became his 1822 Analytical Theory of Heat , and in it he begins by noting that : Heat, like gravity, penetrates every substance of the universe, its rays occupy all parts of space.

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