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The Role of Mathematics in Education

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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.

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

ED Surge

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The solution?

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Two Main Branches of Mathematics That Kids Need to Learn

STEM Education Guide

Elementary algebra is crucial for the study of engineering, science, medicine, and economics. Calculus calculates the immediate rates of change and is used for infinite series, derivatives, limits, integrals, and functions. Check out this book for middle schoolers to get a better hold on calculus. Computation.

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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

Stephen Wolfram

It’s a new paradigm—that actually seems to unlock things not only in fundamental physics, but also in the foundations of mathematics and computer science , and possibly in areas like biology and economics too. You know, I talked about building up the universe by repeatedly applying a computational rule.

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

Stephen Wolfram

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?

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Delve Talks: Winnie Karanja, Maydm

Maydm

A Master’s degree in developmental economics and international development from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a bachelor’s degree in childhood education. I deferred my offer to graduate school at the London School of Economics. I’m a prospective computer science major there.”

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Computer Science was always supposed to be taught to everyone, and it wasn’t about getting a job: A historical perspective

Computing Education Research Blog

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.”