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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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While these are the areas of economics commonly in the news, the field is so much broader than this. The first student has an extremely high grade point average (GPA) from their school exams, while the second student’s GPA is still good, but not as high. Stock markets, unemployment, inflation and recession?

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C-STEM Studio — A Great Way to Blend Math and Robotics

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This web-based scalable program is available for elementary through high school students and can last anywhere from four weeks to a year. For students, there are CSTEM camps and competitions to showcase the robot wizardry of programmers from elementary through high school. why bother. Oh, by the way: It’s free. is cost-efficient.

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Flying high with careers in aviation

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It takes a lot of fuel to get planes airborne, hence the industry’s large carbon footprint, and solving this issue requires new ideas and new technologies. Not only do aircraft and related infrastructure need to become more efficient, they also need to have their designs overhauled, and the public needs to accept these changes.

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The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

In addition to whole courses, we have “miniseries” of lectures about specific topics: And we also have courses —and books—about the Wolfram Language itself, like my Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language , which came out in a third edition this year (and has an associated course, online version, etc.):

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

Stephen Wolfram

But with remarkable regularity Ed would surprise me with yet another—often at first hard-to-believe—story about a situation or topic that I had no idea he’d ever been involved in. At the end of high school, Ed applied to Caltech (which was only 13 miles away from where he lived), and largely on the basis of his test scores, was admitted. (For

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Classroom resources for the new school year

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Classroom resources for the new school year Tweet Share 0 Skype Reddit +1 Pinterest 0 LinkedIn 0 Email Are you looking for free and engaging educational resources to use in your classroom? As students and teachers head back to school, why not use our free educational resources in your lessons? Look no further!