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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

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As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Those “aha” moments were often accompanied with a gleeful, “I get it!” The brain makes sense of the world, and mathematics, through culture.

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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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UCLA Life Sciences Revamped How It Teaches Math. Is It an Example Others Should Follow?

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About 10 years ago, Alan Garfinkel, a professor in the life sciences department at the University of California, Los Angeles, got a call. It was from his dean, who said that the department had inspected their freshman calculus course, “Calculus for Life Sciences.” The students have voted with their feet, Van Valkenburgh adds.

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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

Computer Science Teacher

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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How to Help Kids Overcome Their Fear of Math, According to a Brain Scientist

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For all that education has changed in recent times—from the disappearance of cursive lessons to the rise of computer science in classrooms to pandemic-forced remote learning—one thing has remained stubbornly unchanged. That’s stress and anxiety over math. Underperformance, as a nation, in math is not new.

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Awesome Interactive Simulations for Learning Math and Science

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April 19, 2015 PhET is a very good platform that offers free interactive simulations to help students develop a an informed understanding of a variety of phenomena covering science, physics and.read more. Math websites Science resources'

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