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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. Some educators place a share of the blame on calculus courses, which can push out otherwise interested students. Meanwhile, the calculus instruction has to be slowed down enough that it’s not as effective for math people as it could be. “I

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Two Main Branches of Mathematics That Kids Need to Learn

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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. Additionally, calculus comes in handy for the summation of small factors used to determine the whole number.

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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

Stephen Wolfram

And one of the stunningly beautiful things—at least for a physicist like me—is that the same phenomenon that in physical space gives us gravity, in branchial space gives us quantum mechanics. It’s because we’re observers like us that we perceive the laws of physics we do. Human minds who think alike are nearby.

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Dear Educators, a Balm for Deep Cuts: Navigating Racial Microaggressions at School

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Solórzano and Lindsay Pérez Huber contextualize these harmful lived experiences through vivid storytelling and rigorous research,⁴ illuminating their lasting physical, psychological and social consequences. Critical race and education scholars like Daniel G.

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How Can We Prepare STEM Teachers to Work and Thrive in Rural Schools?

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chemistry, biology, and physics or both calculus and Algebra I) or to teach and work in other roles in the school such as coach and bus driver. The Mississippi Economic Review, 1, pp. For example, in small rural schools, teachers are often assigned non-traditional tasks and are asked to fulfill multiple roles. References .

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Even beyond Physics: Introducing Multicomputation as a Fourth General Paradigm for Theoretical Science

Stephen Wolfram

One might have thought it was already exciting enough for our Physics Project to be showing a path to a fundamental theory of physics and a fundamental description of how our physical universe works. Despite this, however, fundamental physics always seemed to resist its advance. The Path to a New Paradigm.

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