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FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Or perhaps, amidst a particularly challenging calculus problem, you’ve questioned how this abstract world of numbers and symbols could possibly influence your future career? College and Mathematics: Challenges The Complexity Cliff Remember the first time you looked at a calculus problem in college? Well, you’re not alone.
Computing Education Research Blog
NOVEMBER 26, 2021
My argument is that computer science was originally invented to be taught to everyone, but not for economic advantage. I see the LSA effort and our Teaspoon languages connected to the original goals for computer science. In 1961, the MIT Sloan School held a symposium on “Computers and the World of the Future.”
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ED Surge
APRIL 23, 2024
years of my career at Weehawken High School, where I taught Algebra I (students in grades seven to nine) and AP Calculus (grades 11-12). I started at one public middle school where I taught digital communications, and then moved to a different one in the district, called Bush Middle School. I spent the first 3.5 For the past 1.5
Robert Talbert, Ph.D.
FEBRUARY 11, 2022
Here's the one from Winter 2021 for calculus and here's the one for modern algebra. This semester I taught two sections of Discrete Structures for Computer Science 1, an entry-level course for Computer Science majors on the mathematical foundations of computing. Three things that surprised me 1.
PCS Edventures
MARCH 4, 2020
Calculus , which calculates rates of change and infinites. Science, technology, engineering and arts careers often rely upon at least one of these math specializations, so jobs with a math focus are often talked about under the other STEAM categories. Algebra , which incorporates unknown variables into arithmetic equations.
Stephen Wolfram
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
But it really wasn’t physics, or computer science, or math, or biology, or economics, or any known field. The idea not of solving equations, but instead of setting up computational rules that could be explicitly run to represent and reproduce things in the world. What is that science? But at least it would have a home.
Stephen Wolfram
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
And the same issue arose for Alonzo Church’s lambda calculus (introduced around 1930). But in 1936 Church and Rosser showed that at least for lambda calculus and combinators the multiway structure basically doesn’t matter so long as the transformations terminate: the final result is always the same.
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