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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says. There are math requirements for those majors. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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

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That call started the years-long process of reworking how the university’s life sciences department teaches math. This ultimately led to a new introductory life sciences math course, Mathematics for Life Sciences (the LS 30 series). But in the end, the results almost beggared belief, according to those at the college.

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A Community Math Stop from UT Austin Student Sarthak Reddy

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Reddy is studying Biology as well as Media and Entertainment Industries, so we thought he’d be perfect for trying out our new video template , allowing community members to create Math Walk Stops of their very own! Shares The post A Community Math Stop from UT Austin Student Sarthak Reddy appeared first on talkSTEM.

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Levels of Biological Organization

MooMoo Math & Science

Life is both mysterious and amazing. Within a beautiful forest there are all kinds of interactions taking place.between both living and non-living factors. Let’s take a look at the different levels of biological organization found on Earth. I would like to focus on levels of organization starting at the organism.

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Game Based Learning and Gamification in Maths teaching

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Game Based Learning (GBL) is, therefore, a lock pick to interest the class, capture students’ attention and allow them to understand the concepts of Maths and its procedures in an intuitive way: at a later time it will be possible to define the theoretical and abstract procedures that allow us to create models and solve problems.

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

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As highlighted in our report—published by Just Equations and the California Education Learning Lab—forward-thinking math departments across the country are implementing promising instructional approaches to make calculus classes more engaging and effective for students from various backgrounds.

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

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Students majoring in biology saw the biggest bump.) It’s common for students who are used to learning math from lectures to be reluctant to think critically at first, learning assistants from the study say. That can relieve the pressure they feel around advanced math, freeing up mental space to devote to science, Zuniga adds.

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