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. Researchers are betting on it.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

But Barclay — a former Virginia math educator of the year — thought back to his own experience with a discouraging middle school teacher and decided to think through what the student was saying rather than dismiss it. Or even newer math ?) So I’ve been wondering: What do we know about the science behind good math education?

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ED Surge

MAY 28, 2024

That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. When he later won an achievement award in math, Lynem determined that the decision had been a good one.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Or perhaps, amidst a particularly challenging calculus problem, you’ve questioned how this abstract world of numbers and symbols could possibly influence your future career? College and Mathematics: Challenges The Complexity Cliff Remember the first time you looked at a calculus problem in college? Well, you’re not alone.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

And the list included an interview with a Nobel prize winner about his research to improve science instruction; a set of reader responses to our coverage of “math wars”; and a look at what’s keeping teachers from embracing edtech. Readers Respond: Does Fixing the Leaky STEM Pipeline Require Calculus To Adapt?

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Young children have many different ability levels with math concepts. Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson, an expert on the topic, gives an overview of how to differentiate math instruction with younger students. . Episode 793 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast How to Differentiate Math Instruction in the Elementary Classroom Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Research by the nonprofit Gardner Institute and other groups has found that these typically-freshman-year classes tend to prune some kinds of students from academic tracks more than others. Research shows students may drop out or change their major based on these gateway courses.” Organic chemistry , anyone?) history surveys.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Their courses are difficult, and it can be hard to find the time to attend class, study for exams and write research papers. Students can hand in quality, well-written and researched essays to get good grades. You need to have a postgraduate degree in data science or computational and applied math.

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STEM Sport

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

In this case, they analyze calculus and how the approach around this difficult course has changed in recent years. Colleges Can Make Calculus a Gateway — Not a Gatekeeper — to STEM Fields. But neither will happen unless we address the fundamental gatekeeper to all STEM fields: undergraduate calculus.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Youngpradit: There is research out of Stanford that found that the prevalence of cheating overall remained the same with the introduction of ChatGPT. AI can aid and empower teaching, which will be transformative, but it can't replicate those human elements that really have an impact on students' lives. That wasn't the case.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2022

I grew up as a self-described math and science nerd. I took Calculus I, II, and III in high school at the local college, and when I enrolled at the University of Virginia, my courses included honors chemistry and physics for physics majors—although I did not major in physics.

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Newton STEM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Last year, NSF raised $191,000 and funded 52 projects , including these STEM-related ones: Math Challenge Boards for all Elementary Schools: Our goal is 50% of the K-5 student body at each school submitting Challenge Math work. For the summer we will be doing research into people and their life work and crafting lessons.

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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). Economics Employs Math for Concise Communication There’s no doubt that economics is part of the social sciences, given that it studies human behavior.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. The most problematic strategy that many students try instead, he argues, is what he calls “mimicking,” which he has especially found in the math classes he studies.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2017

Engineering is why traffic flows smoothly on crowded roads and why bridges survive despite massive loads of trucks, and is the foundation for much research into global warming and alternative energy. Many immigrants with strong math and science skills are warmly accepted to not just the US, but many other western nations.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 25, 2023

The links didn’t work and as I researched, it looks like this AR experience debuted in 2020. I remember the day when many schools banned calculators because they thought it would make kids not learn math – instead, we can now teach calculus in high school as a result! So, the training data is older.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Biomedical engineering lies at the heart of medical technology, where researchers collaborate with healthcare practitioners to develop new and innovative devices that can improve the lives of patients. FIELD OF RESEARCH : Biomedical Engineering. RESEARCH PROJECT : Developing wearable biomedical devices for the skin and eye.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

This placed the responsibility for learning on the students, using teacher-prescribed methods, even though decades of research screamed that lots of kids perform better with images than pages filled with black-and-white text. Topics include languages, music, technology, social studies, science, engineering, maths, journalism, and more.

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STEMe

DECEMBER 3, 2023

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 traders routinely use highly complex mathematics, such as stochastic calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, and discrete mathematics to create these models.

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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. For instance, a report indicates that the median annual wage for computer and information research scientists was $122,840 as of May 2019.

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STEM Sport

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Educational Benefit: This activity introduces students to classification and basic math concepts. They can further research why chlorophyll breaks down and other pigments become dominant. Using this data, they can model the rate mathematically, using calculus to find rates of change or predict future leaf drop rates.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2022

Norah Laughter, a senior from Russellville, Kentucky, is a member of the Kentucky Student Voice Team, a student-led organization committed to youth development, participatory research and education policy. In 2020, she helped the organization conduct a survey of Kentucky middle and high school students about their pandemic experiences.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’m working as fast as possible to answer as many math questions as I can in 60 seconds. In my experience as a middle and high school math specialist, I’ve rarely heard any adults (including math teachers) report many positive memories of their early experiences with math at school. I thought so. Probably not.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2023

Joseph was in the third grade, she raised her hand in class to answer a math question. That little girl went on to study math and economics in college, then became a math teacher and a teacher-coach. EdSurge recently talked with Joseph about her new book, “ Making Black Girls Count in Math Education.” I took the test.

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Jacobs Physics

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Physics Education Research has provided abundant, replicable evidence that the vast majority of students are nowhere near as fluent. But the free body diagram forces* students to represent all the forces acting, and thus to pay attention to why each force might or might not exist, before they do any math at all.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

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? The planes keep flying!

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STEM Education Shopping

AUGUST 28, 2023

These virtual learning experiences have become my guiding stars, providing me with invaluable knowledge and strategies to engage students in science, technology, engineering, and math. Virtual simulations, online research, and coding activities are some examples.

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STEM Education Guide

MARCH 8, 2023

Whether young learners are drawn to foreign languages, math, humanities, or fine arts, the truth is that everyone has a lot to gain from stem programs for high school. Lastly, math is applied in all occupations and daily activities. Programs such as MEL Science integrate several engineering, math, technology, and science projects.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 10, 2022

Developed in collaboration with researchers at the Harvard School of Education, students read aloud and the tool collects data on fluency and accountability (think words correct per minute and total time read, among others) and a recording and transcript of their reading. He gave me a math test that I can just do it in my own language.

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Daniel’s research lies within the field of high-energy nuclear physics, which investigates how parton interactions and motions influence the internal structure of hadrons. One of the main aims of his research is to determine the source of the proton’s spin. WHY IS THIS RESEARCH IMPORTANT? FIELD OF RESEARCH : Nuclear Physics.

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National Science Foundation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Researchers and policy makers have pushed to open that gate—providing more students access to algebra, focusing in particular on those students historically denied access to higher-level mathematics. My research team and I are developing instructional routines tied to each of the five algebra-focused instructional practices listed above.

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National Science Foundation

MARCH 2, 2022

2019) have developed the three Cs framework for teacher education, summarizing both theory and research about the features of teacher education that might better prepare educators for placements in rural schools. In small rural schools, teachers are likely to be the only one of their kind—such as the only science or math teacher.

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Stephen Wolfram

OCTOBER 27, 2023

A few centuries ago the development of mathematical notation, and what amounts to the “language of mathematics”, gave a systematic way to express math—and made possible algebra, and calculus, and ultimately all of modern mathematical science.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 23, 2023

When the Wolfram plugin is given Wolfram Language code, what it does is basically just to evaluate that code, and return the result—perhaps as a graphic or math formula, or just text. Back before about 500 years ago, pretty much the only way to “express math” was in natural language. But what about a “woolly” word problem?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2024

Should calculus be taught differently in the 21st century? The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About By Daniel Mollenkamp Photo courtesy of the Harvard University Department of Mathematics. College professors are pushing calculus past its traditional limits to help more students succeed in advanced math.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

In it, Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, which has been building a tutoring tool with ChatGPT, sits watching his 15-year old son Imran learn a math concept from a talking version of the chatbot running on an iPad, which can also see what the student is typing on the tablet. It was making math errors. It could be used to cheat.

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CTE Learning

MAY 20, 2022

You may have heard about various STEM careers and you may have done your own research as a result. Typically STEM education is meant to bridge the gender and ethnic gaps , which are occasionally found in science and math fields. Robotics engineering combines math, engineering, science, and some creativity.

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