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Computer Science Course Offerings in High School Spur More Students to Coding Degrees

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In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. It’s like math anxiety — they think they can’t do it,” the professor says of some students. It’s not surprising in some ways,” says the lead researcher on the study, Jing Liu.

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Welcome New Computer Science Teachers

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For one thing a lot of teachers have been voluntold that they are going to teach computer science in the fall.Some have never taught CS before. Hopefully, all CS teachers join the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA). Many people also join Computer Science Educators which is a wide ranging group for CS teachers.

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A Spoon Full of Computer Science

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I was thinking about data science lately. The problem is that I don’t know much about data science. So my first thought was to look at Bootstrap’s data Science curriculum. I did find their definition : data science the science of collecting, organizing, and drawing general conclusions from data, with the help of computers.

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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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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5 Tech Tools for Math Class

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I’ve updated Ask a Tech Teacher’s list of ten math tools we posted in 2016 to be shorter and with a new option. I think this will better reflect what’s going on today in our classrooms: It can be difficult to teach math, but with the proper tools, it can often be made easier. Pricing: Free for teachers and students.

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The Impact of Inclusive STEM Education

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STEM education is not just about science and math; it develops skills such as creativity, communication, empathy and critical thinking that complement technologies like generative AI and coding. Educators face the challenge of engaging students in STEM amidst limited resources. Iterate on what works and learn from what doesn’t.

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Fun Math Games to Help Students Practice Math Concepts and Skills

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This is even so with subjects that are notoriously known for being dry and boring such as math. In this post, I share with you a wide variety of resources where you can search for and find fun math games to use with your students in and out of class. Cool Math games are student friendly and can be used in school and at home.

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