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The Role of Mathematics in Education

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The Role of Mathematics in Education: What Professions You Can Get in the Future Have you ever found yourself pondering the real-world applications of those algebraic formulas or geometric theorems you spent hours trying to decipher in school? There you can get advice and solve various mathematical problems in college.

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The Most Underrated Computer Science Career: Quantitative Analysis

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The efforts of the researchers who use it to improve the stock market cannot go understated, yet their real work remains shrouded in obscurity. Quantitative analysis involves the usage of mathematical models and algorithms to predict the stock price of a company based on its quantitative features. And who really controls all of it?

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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.”

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Career Exploration: Mathematics

PCS Edventures

Whether you agree with the theory that mathematics exists for humans to discover or that it is a man-made tool, numeric systems designed to measure the world around us serve as the foundation for scientific and technological advancement. Calculus , which calculates rates of change and infinites. What is Math?

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In conversation with a (highly passionate) temporal logician

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Kristin’s research spans a wide range of applications and theoretical domains, but the one thing they all have in common is temporal logic – that is, an unambiguous, mathematically precise way of describing and reasoning about systems that change over time. WHERE WILL KRISTIN‘S RESEARCH LEAD TO IN THE FUTURE?

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Contending with the Unintended Consequences of History: Revisiting Brown v. Board of Education and the Need for Systemic Change in K-12 Education

National Science Foundation

The biases are notably stark if schools are divided out by minority enrollment, as public middle and high schools with more than 50 percent White students have only 2 percent of mathematics teachers and 1 percent of science teachers that are Black ( National Center for Science & Engineering Statistics ).

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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

Stephen Wolfram

Mathematics. And in our century there’s a new and yet more powerful one: computation. And for nearly 50 years I’ve had the great privilege of building an ever taller tower of science and technology based on that idea of computation. We’ve seen the growth of computer science—CS. But how is that rule picked?

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