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The Role of Mathematics in Education

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The Role of Mathematics in Education: What Professions You Can Get in the Future Have you ever found yourself pondering the real-world applications of those algebraic formulas or geometric theorems you spent hours trying to decipher in school? High school often focuses on procedural understanding—how to solve problems with well-defined steps.

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What to Know About SQL and How to Try it Out

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I know–a geeky, scary three-letter word that makes even math aficionados decide to choose advanced calculus rather than computer programming. Computers and coding languages are becoming more important in our lives with each passing day, but it can be hard for high school students to choose the best coding languages for their needs.

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AI Tools Like ChatGPT May Reshape Teaching Materials — And Possibly Substitute Teach

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This summer, a coding class offered by a private school in Austin, Texas, was led by an unusual teacher. The PreK-8 school, Paragon Prep, offered a series of optional, self-paced, video lessons that were automatically generated from a textbook. If you have no idea what any of that means, that’s perfectly fine, good and normal.

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8 Tech Tools to Get to Know Your Students for Back to School

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Turning a spreadsheet into a games makes that daunting six syllable phrase (data analysis) just one syllable–fun. Not only is this a great ice breaker for the first day of class, it’s also a fun introduction to web-based tools students will enjoy incorporating into class projects throughout the school year.

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The Broad Field of Engineering — Interview w/ Jesse Burton

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I can share my favorite part of this job, which was performing data analysis for flight test data in a hardware lab. All of this has brought me to a job I currently love, in my current role as Analysis Engineer at ThyssenKrupp. What kind of things did you do (inside or outside of school) to fuel this interest?

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Can artificial intelligence detect hidden heart attacks?

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Published: Analysing medical data to detect health problems can be incredibly difficult, but advances in artificial intelligence (AI) mean it is now possible for computers to spot subtle patterns in complex patient data. Can artificial intelligence detect hidden heart attacks?

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What is Particle Physics? Watch Particle Physicist Claire Malone Discover Undiscovered Particles at Work

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At school, I just wanted to finish the other lessons and get into the science lab. Hunting for new particles involves analyzing lots of data from a detector at CERN. To do this I have to write computer code to instruct the computer which calculations to perform to tell us something useful about the data.

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