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The Role of Mathematics in Education

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Challenges and Solutions in Mathematics College professors frequently adopt a lecture-based approach, emphasizing theory over practice. Finance and Economics: The Art of Numbers In the realms of finance and economics, mathematics is the brush with which professionals paint the picture of the market’s future.

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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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However, Dr Emil Temnyalov , an economist at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, highlights the effects of socio-economic influences on these scores. While these are the areas of economics commonly in the news, the field is so much broader than this. Stock markets, unemployment, inflation and recession?

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Fire trackers: how can we use modelling techniques to predict where wildfires will occur?

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The total economic cost of the Black Summer fires has been calculated at around $80 billion, making them the most costly natural disaster in Australia’s history. Professor Trent Penman, Dr Kate Parkins and Dr Erica Marshall are researchers from the FLARE Wildfire Research Group, based at The University of Melbourne.

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Bringing life back to Kenya’s grasslands

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Led by Professor Mariana Rufino at Lancaster University , UK, an international team of researchers, including Dr Joseph Hitimana at the University of Kabianga in Kenya, is working with Kenyan farmers to find solutions to this problem. This is vital for socio-economic development in the region.”. PROFESSOR MARIANA RUFINO.

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Here Comes Another Trend in K-12 Science Education: Data Science

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And yet, they keep being pushed by large publishing companies, government agencies, schools, and even academic professors. Instead of following a predetermined curriculum, inquiry-based learning encourages students to develop their own questions, hypothesis, experiments, and conclusions based on their observations and data analysis.

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How can we make future places healthier spaces?

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Published: Professor Richard Harper , based at Lancaster University in the UK, is the principal investigator of a project called the Future Places Centre. This project is investigating how computing, the internet of things and data science can generate information that people can use to make their future places healthier.

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Social science for social change: the story of marriage equality in the US

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Professor Michael Rosenfeld , a sociologist at Stanford University , has studied this dramatic change in public opinion. According to Professor Michael Rosenfeld, a sociologist at Stanford University, “This is the story of the greatest transformation of public opinion in US history.” says Michael.