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Early Numeracy as a Cornerstone of Long-Term Academic Success

ED Surge

However, despite the emphasis on STEM in later years, the importance of early numeracy in shaping long-term academic success is equally critical yet sometimes overlooked. Higher Academic Achievement: Longitudinal studies reveal a strong correlation between early math skills and academic performance through high school.

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Equity and Access in Math Education

ED Surge

One of the most insidious causes for the difference in achievement is a stubborn culture of low expectations by the adults in their schools. Another cause for the achievement gap is that Black and Latino students experiencing poverty are more likely to have teachers with weaker mathematical backgrounds.

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Don’t Give Up on Algebra: Let’s Shift the Focus to Instruction

National Science Foundation

In its current form, school algebra serves as a gatekeeper to higher-level mathematics. Researchers and policy makers have pushed to open that gate—providing more students access to algebra, focusing in particular on those students historically denied access to higher-level mathematics. Let’s Not Be So Quick to Give Up on Algebra.

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Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT

Stephen Wolfram

But while ChatGPT is a remarkable achievement in automating the doing of major human-like things, not everything that’s useful to do is quite so “human like”. Put another way, it’d take “fixing” an almost infinite number of “bugs” to patch up what even an almost-infinitesimal corner of Wolfram|Alpha can achieve in its structured way.

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How far has education really come in terms of reducing inequities?

CSTEM

In middle schools offering algebra, white students make up 50% of the attendees, but 58% of those enrolled in algebra classes. Conversely, Black students constitute 17% of the school population but only 11% of algebra enrollees. The report also highlights a second level of segregation within schools. Changing placement policies.

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How to Master Math Wooden Manipulatives Get Your High Score

STEM Education Shopping

For example, if you have a fraction bar that’s divided into four equal parts, you can see that each part represents one-fourth. By combining two of these bars, you can visually see that two-fourths is equal to one-half. So grab some base ten blocks and start exploring the world of place value today!

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LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

And in Mathematica and the Wolfram Language that’s achieved with Integrate. And over the years that’s exactly what we’ve achieved—for integrals, sums, differential equations, etc. It’s the end of a long journey, and a satisfying achievement in the quest to make as much mathematical knowledge as possible automatically computable.

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