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 363

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.

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. A student can follow scientist role models through other avenues or on social media. Math in STEM. Types of Stem Programs.

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STEM Astronomy Aerospace Engineering 52

Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

He’s writing a paper, he says, basically to clarify the Second Law, (or, as he calls it, “the second fundamental theorem”—rather confidently asserting that he will “prove this theorem”): Part of the issue he’s trying to address is how the calculus is done: The partial derivative symbol ∂ had been introduced in the late 1700s.

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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.

STEM 52

STEM Economics Social Sciences Innovation 52

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

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). As I was writing this piece, I decided to look up more about Roland Silver—who I found out had been a college roommate of Marvin Minsky’s at Harvard, and had had a long career in math, etc.

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Computer Physics Science Sciences 67