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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

Educators Technology

Scientific knowledge is proliferating in an unprecedented rate with an increasing number of journal articles and research papers published every year across various disciplines from humanities to medicine and technology. As researchers, our research stands on the shoulders of other researchers.

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

ED Surge

Though some argue that mathematics is culturally independent, I can say from experience that it is anything but. The brain makes sense of the world, and mathematics, through culture. In one of the lessons , students accessed the Agriculture Department’s Food Access Research Atlas to locate food deserts in their city.

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PCAS Expansion, Growth, Research, and SIGCSE 2024 Presentations

Computing Education Research Blog

Several of these courses are collaborations with other departments, like our Discovery classes with Physics, Biophysics, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Linguistics. Research in PCAS We’re starting to publish some of what we’re learning from PCAS. This semester, I’m teaching two brand new courses.

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Can quantum physics make the internet more secure?

Futurum

Can quantum physics make the internet more secure? Her research is helping to develop the quantum internet – the internet of the future will be very different from the internet today. The current internet works by using ‘bits’ that are always in one of two physical states, like the on/off switch of a light or TV.

Physics 98
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How is mathematics applied to real world problems?

Futurum

How is mathematics applied to real world problems? Published: Mathematics is essential to our way of life. Professor Anotida Madzvamuse , an applied mathematician at the University of Sussex , in the UK, and the University of British Columbia , in Canada, led the UK-Africa Postgraduate Advanced Study Institute in Mathematical Sciences.

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Black holes: the meeting of gravity and quantum physics

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Black holes: the meeting of gravity and quantum physics. Published: We know that black holes exist through a mix of complex mathematics and astrophysics but linking mathematical ideas to what we can observe in the Universe is no easy task. TALK LIKE A BLACK HOLE PHYSICIST.

Physics 68
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Is it worthwhile to do low-level physics research projects? Yes.

Jacobs Physics

I *do* have to convince people that student research in the context of an introductory physics class is worthwhile. Less and less pushback over time, because more people every year see the worth of these proto-research projects (and also because people give up complaining through sheer exhaustion - I'm not gonna end these projects).

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