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If We’re Serious About Student Well-Being, We Must Change the Systems Students Learn In

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In 2019, two out of three Harvard freshmen reported taking AP Calculus in high school, according to Jeff Selingo, author of “ Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions ,” yet only half of all high schools in the country offer the course. AP courses and exams also raise complex issues of equity.

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9 Good Collections of Videos for Education

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Bitsize is the BBC’s collection of free short videos and lessons (they’re all bite-sized) on over fifty subjects taught in Primary or Secondary education. Topics include languages, music, technology, social studies, science, engineering, maths, journalism, and more.

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How can smart contact lenses monitor and treat eye conditions?

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Chi Hwan recommends taking courses in linear algebra, multivariate calculus, chemistry, statistics, dynamics, electricity, magnetism, physics and programming while at university. HOW DID CHI HWAN BECOME A BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER?team.

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Top Tech Tools for Equity and Accessibility

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If you have students in your school who do not have English as their primary language, this is a must-listen-to episode. (Or And all of a sudden I'm taking Algebra 2, I'm taking Calculus. So you would choose your primary language on there. Or read the transcript at the end of this post.) We can do this!

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

So did that mean we were “finished” with calculus? Somewhere along the way we built out discrete calculus , asymptotic expansions and integral transforms. And in Version 14 there are significant advances around calculus. Another advance has to do with expanding the range of “pre-packaged” calculus operations.

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

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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What Is Zearn — the Math Platform the Gates Foundation Is Betting Big On?

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And its curriculum is used both as primary lessons and as what its leaders call “complementary” lessons, which emphasize visual models and real-life examples. We believe that it's critical for some kids to be exposed to calculus. And we should probably expand the pipeline of young people who take calculus in high school.”

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