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Graphing–9 Lesson Plans + 6 Online Resources

Ask a Tech Teacher

Whether students pursue studies in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), social sciences, or business, they will likely encounter situations where graphing skills are essential.

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10 Ways to Use Defined Learning for Project-Based Learning Excellence

Cool Cat Teacher

C3 Module Project – projects designed using the Inquiry Design Model (IDM) using the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards. Math Task Project – math task projects relating to math standards (grades 1 – 7).

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STEM Statistics For 2023 (Education, Diversity, Careers)

The Maker Mom

For instance, in the social sciences, women hold an impressive 64% share of the workforce. Children possess a natural curiosity and will learn math and science with ease through free play. Women have gained a substantial foothold within certain categories of STEM careers. This is an increase of 45% since 1970.

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Delve Talks: Winnie Karanja, Maydm

Maydm

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.

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Can AI Solve Science?

Stephen Wolfram

We can still ask, though, whether the mathematics—or science—that humans choose to study might manage to live solely in pockets of computational reducibility. But in a sense the ultimate reason that “math is hard” is that we’re constantly seeing evidence of computational irreducibility: we can’t get around actually having to compute things.

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Remembering the Improbable Life of Ed Fredkin (1934–2023) and His World of Ideas and Stories

Stephen Wolfram

As I was writing this piece, I decided to look up more about Roland Silver—who I found out had been a college roommate of Marvin Minsky’s at Harvard, and had had a long career in math, etc. He was convinced you could not do [math] by typing it. at MITRE (the holding company for Lincoln Lab). Now, we had one bad idea in there, OK.