ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

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. There are math requirements for those majors.

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Math Calculus Algebra Mathematics 362

STEM Education Guide

MARCH 9, 2023

Recently, five of the eight Ivy League universities have reclassified their economics degrees from social science to science, technology, math, and engineering (STEM). However, economists employ math at a basic level, from communicating findings and developing models to projections. What Is STEM?

Economics 98

Economics STEM Finance Mathematics 98

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. It encompasses hands-on science applied to daily life.

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STEM Astronomy Engineering Aerospace 52

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

And indeed particularly in chemistry and engineering it’s often been in the background, justifying all the computations routinely done using entropy. There had been precursors of steam engines even in antiquity, but it was only in 1712 that the first practical steam engine was developed. Lazare Carnot died in 1823.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 88

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. And throughout my sort of high school experience, I’d been, you know, passionate about social sciences.

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STEM Economics Social Sciences Innovation 52

Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). His father ’s university engineering studies had been cut short by the Russian Revolution, and he now had a one-man wholesale electronic parts business. Petersburg; his mother in Odessa ; they met in LA).

Computer 68

Computer Physics Science Sciences 68

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

I could write down equations and do math. So for me it was obvious: if I couldn’t figure out things myself with math, I should use a computer. It wasn’t something one could readily see with math. But it really wasn’t physics, or computer science, or math, or biology, or economics, or any known field.

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Computer Mathematics Science Sciences 55