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Evidence Is Mounting That Calculus Should Be Changed. Will Instructors Heed It?

ED Surge

Calculus is a critical on-ramp to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Good news: There's mounting evidence that changing calculus instruction works for the groups usually pushed out of STEM. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

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Colleges Can Make Calculus a Gateway — Not a Gatekeeper — to STEM Fields

ED Surge

But neither will happen unless we address the fundamental gatekeeper to all STEM fields: undergraduate calculus. But the pathway to careers in science and technology is anything but user-friendly, as revealed by the sheer number of college students opting to switch out of a STEM major after facing a college calculus class.

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UCLA Life Sciences Revamped How It Teaches Math. Is It an Example Others Should Follow?

ED Surge

It was from his dean, who said that the department had inspected their freshman calculus course, “Calculus for Life Sciences.” This ultimately led to a new introductory life sciences math course, Mathematics for Life Sciences (the LS 30 series). The traditional calculus coursework, to people like Garfinkel, is totally outdated.

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Creating Gateways in STEM Education

STEM Sport

In this case, they analyze calculus and how the approach around this difficult course has changed in recent years. Colleges Can Make Calculus a Gateway — Not a Gatekeeper — to STEM Fields. But neither will happen unless we address the fundamental gatekeeper to all STEM fields: undergraduate calculus.

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Register by June 27 for MIT’s Virtual HSSP — Sundays in Summer for Grades 7-12+

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Nuclear Reactors: Science and Operation How the Earth Moves Below the Sea: An Intro to Conducting Marine Geophysical Research Relativity and Black Holes Everything they don’t tell you about Mathematics

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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 provides insights into plant biology and the effects of environmental factors on growth.

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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

Stephen Wolfram

Mathematics. But in the 1600s came the idea of modeling things with mathematical formulas—in which time enters, but basically just as a coordinate value. We won’t always be able to make a simple human—or, say, mathematical—narrative to explain or predict what a system will do. These are all ways to formalize the world.

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