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How can we make STEM subjects more engaging for students?

Futurum

The project works with pre-service (student) teachers at Point Park University who are focusing on elementary education, with the goal to improve the way they teach STEM subjects and better prepare them for maker education methods. To combat this problem, Ginny, Kamryn, and Mark started a project called T.I.M.E for STEM, where T.I.M.E

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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

It’s yet another surprising construct that’s arisen from our Physics Project. And it’s one that I think has extremely deep implications—both in science and beyond. In some ways it’s a bit like our efforts to construct the ruliad. The whole continuum of all real numbers is “from the outside” in many ways a simple construct.

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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

And as a kind of graduation gift when I finished (British) elementary school in June 1972 I arranged to get those books. I’d started by considering only “elementary” cellular automata , in one dimension, with k = 2 colors, and with rules of range r = 1. There are 256 such “elementary rules”. code 10)”.

Physics 95
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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

When most working mathematicians do mathematics it seems to be typical for them to reason as if the constructs they’re dealing with (whether they be numbers or sets or whatever) are “real things”. And we can think of that ultimate machine code as operating on things that are in effect just abstract constructs—very much like in mathematics.

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How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers?

Stephen Wolfram

Instead, what happens is that the universe evolves by virtue of lots of elementary updating events happening throughout the network. Presumably it’s that we can sample space without having to think about time, or in other words, that we can consistently construct a stable notion of space. But there is a subtlety here.

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San Diego Zoo Global offers more than fun for kids with teacher training

STEMx

I have taught science in a number of formal and informal settings, including the San Diego Natural History Museum, Cardiff Elementary School in San Diego County and San Diego State University. . . Equally challenging is the predicament of the American science teacher.

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