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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. There are math requirements for those majors.

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UCLA Life Sciences Revamped How It Teaches Math. Is It an Example Others Should Follow?

ED Surge

It was from his dean, who said that the department had inspected their freshman calculus course, “Calculus for Life Sciences.” That call started the years-long process of reworking how the university’s life sciences department teaches math. Unpopular with students, the class didn’t seem to be preparing them for a career in STEM.

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Two Main Branches of Mathematics That Kids Need to Learn

STEM Education Guide

A well-organized world without the use of mathematics is unimaginable. Therefore, it’s no surprise that a wealth of mathematical branches exists in the world today. Nowadays, a mathematics study from the basics to advanced levels that contribute to technology, medicine, engineering, and more. What Is Mathematics?

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AP Physics C in April - don't worry about math!

Jacobs Physics

I'm working on the final set of test corrections with my Physics C - mechanics independent study student. This student had AP Physics 1 with me two years ago. He is in AP Calculus BC. In the first part of the year, I had him focus on the mathematics that overlay the concepts he learned in Physics 1.

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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

Stephen Wolfram

Mathematics. 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. These are all ways to formalize the world.

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Why use energy bar charts?

Jacobs Physics

The usefulness of graphical representations over straight-up equations and calculations for understanding energy concepts has been well established in physics teaching literature for years. The old calculational AP Physics B exam rewarded quantitative reasoning. The purpose of an annotated energy bar chart is identical.

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The Most Underrated Computer Science Career: Quantitative Analysis

STEMe

In short, the stock market is a physical or virtual marketplace in which shares of a company are traded between individuals or companies for monetary value. Quantitative analysis involves the usage of mathematical models and algorithms to predict the stock price of a company based on its quantitative features.