ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Our coverage of new approaches to math education drew the most interest from readers, with two different features exploring how to rethink calculus making our Top 5. EdSurge takes you inside Harvard’s Science Center, where this summer, professors imagined new ways to push calculus past its limits. Will Instructors Heed It?

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Stephen Wolfram

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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. And, yes, it’s computational. These are all ways to formalize the world. And there’s something else.

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Newton STEM

MARCH 12, 2023

The Calculus Project works in all of Newton’s middle and high schools to have more Hispanic, African American, and low-income students successfully complete calculus in high school, as a path to success in college. The program provides intensive, small-group summer classes, enrichment activities, and year-round mentoring and tutoring.

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Newton STEM

MARCH 13, 2022

The Calculus Project works in all of Newton’s middle and high schools to have more Hispanic, African American, and low-income students successfully complete calculus in high school, as a path to success in college. The program provides intensive, small-group summer classes, enrichment activities, and year-round mentoring and tutoring.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Being a computer science teacher, I thought I had a natural affinity for technology that could translate into a successful tech-agnostic approach to curriculum and instruction; however, by Thanksgiving of the following year, I had led one too many uninspiring and demoralizing online classes where it felt like I was talking into a deep, dark void.

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STEM Education Guide

APRIL 15, 2022

Mathematics can be defined as the science of space, quantity, and number, as theoretically applied to other fields or as abstract concepts. As the science of relation, structure, and order, mathematics has advanced from elemental practices of measuring, counting, and shape description. Computation. What Is Mathematics?

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National Science Foundation

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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 ). In comparison to the U.S.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But what I’ve increasingly been realizing is that actually it’s showing us something even bigger and deeper: a whole fundamentally new paradigm for making models and in general for doing theoretical science. But there is something else too—and it’s from this that the full computational paradigm emerges.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JULY 5, 2021

The cognitive benefits of learning computer programming: A meta-analysis of transfer effects ” was making the rounds on Twitter. This finding is like a recent paper out of Harvard (see link here ) that shows that AP Calculus and AP CS both predict success in undergraduate computer science classes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Provided by CSERD (the Computational Science Education Reference Desk), Interactivate offers a series of free web-based math games, puzzles, and challenges for students in grades K-12. Math topics include everything from counting, place-value, and graphs for youngers to geometry, algebra, and pre-calculus for high school.

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Futurum

JUNE 28, 2022

ALGORITHM – a sequence of well-defined rules that allows computers to make calculations and solve problems. MACHINE LEARNING – a type of artificial intelligence in which computers learn from past data in order to predict outcomes more accurately. … which they must then implement in computer code. Pinterest.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But what I’ve increasingly been realizing is that actually it’s showing us something even bigger and deeper: a whole fundamentally new paradigm for making models and in general for doing theoretical science. But there is something else too—and it’s from this that the full computational paradigm emerges.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

By adopting this approach, Kristin is able to solve meaningful problems in aerospace engineering, robotics, cybersecurity, theoretical computer science, mathematics, virtual reality, and more. Ultimately, that set me on the path to the computer science programme that changed my life and set me on my current trajectory.”.

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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). Currently I am on a team of two [fourth grade teachers], so I teach ELA and social studies while my partner teaches math and science. I spent the first 3.5 For the past 1.5

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This is the first of a series of pieces I’m planning in connection with the upcoming 20th anniversary of the publication of A New Kind of Science. “There’s a Whole New Field to Build…” For me the story began nearly 50 years ago —with what I saw as a great and fundamental mystery of science. Computation theory.

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STEM Education Guide

APRIL 18, 2022

If your child is gifted in the arts of math or science, it’s not a bad idea to encourage a STEM career. It’s an acronym that encompasses science, technology, engineering, and math. Let’s look at the main branches: Science in STEM. Additionally, the legendary ‘Science Guy’ Bill Nye joined TikTok.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

But some of it has immediate practical implications, notably for parallel, distributed, nondeterministic and quantum-style computing. The key point is that a given event cannot happen unless all the inputs to it are available, i.e. have already been computed. Some of what this will lead us to is deeply abstract.

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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.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Ed was someone who wanted to independently figure things out for himself, and delighted in presenting his often somewhat-outlandish conclusions—whether about technology, science, business or the world—with dramatic showman-like panache. Ed had started with computers in 1956—as part of one of the very first cohorts of programmers.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

We can think of the ruliad as the entangled limit of all possible computations—or in effect a representation of all possible formal processes. Many of these consequences are incredibly complicated, and full of computational irreducibility. But now we can make a bridge to mathematics. So is something similar happening with mathematics?

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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.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As I teach my Linear Algebra and Differential Equations class this semester, which uses more computing than ever, I'm thinking even more about these topics. Yesterday I got an email from a reader who had read this post called What should math majors know about computing? Mostly this is because of two things.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics 2. The Second Law of thermodynamics is considered one of the great general principles of physical science. It’s all a story of the interplay between underlying computational irreducibility and our nature as computationally bounded observers. How Did We Get Here?

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 8, 2022

In an ordinary computational system each state of the system has a unique successor, and ultimately there is a single thread of time that defines a process of computation. For each size of board n , we can compute the total number of winning states for any given player, as well as the total number of states altogether.

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Maydm

JUNE 11, 2021

As a high school student, Winnie had a passion for both math and the social sciences. Her teachers pushed her into the “easier” path of social sciences rather than encourage her interest in STEM subjects. As all of you know, my background is in engineering and Stef brings a background in the social sciences and cultural anthropology.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

See also: “Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT” » It’s Just Adding One Word at a Time That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected. But how does it do it? And why does it work?

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Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Think of it as the entangled limit of everything that is computationally possible: the result of following all possible computational rules in all possible ways. And it’s one that I think has extremely deep implications—both in science and beyond. The full ruliad is in effect a representation of all possible computations.

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