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. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. The solution?
STEM Education Guide
APRIL 18, 2022
It can be confusing to be a young high school student and figure out a path to take. 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, astronaut Christina H.
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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.
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.
Stephen Wolfram
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
For three centuries theoretical models had been based on the fairly narrow set of constructs provided by mathematical equations, and particularly calculus. And to take the powerful basic science that lies there to define “complexity 2.0” But with this new power came a sobering realization.
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). At the end of high school, Ed applied to Caltech (which was only 13 miles away from where he lived), and largely on the basis of his test scores, was admitted. (For
Computing Education Research Blog
NOVEMBER 26, 2021
Forsythe argued (in a 1968 article) that the most valuable parts of a scientific or technical education were facility with natural language, mathematics, and computer science. In 1961, the MIT Sloan School held a symposium on “Computers and the World of the Future.” It was an amazing event. Perlis’s discussants include J.C.R.
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