Algebra Argumentation Elementary 
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. These are the students who end up hitting a wall when math courses move from easier algebra to more advanced concepts in, say, calculus, he argues. “At
Stephen Wolfram
MARCH 7, 2022
One can view a symbolic expression such as f[g[x][y, h[z]], w] as a hierarchical or tree structure , in which at every level some particular “head” (like f ) is “applied to” one or more arguments. So how about logic, or, more specifically Boolean algebra ? We’ve looked at axioms for group theory and for Boolean algebra.
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Stephen Wolfram
JUNE 28, 2023
And, yes, when you try to run the function, it’ll notice it doesn’t have correct arguments and options specified. As an example, here’s a small piece of code (from my An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language ), shown in the default way it’s rendered in notebooks: But in Version 13.3 And now in Version 13.3 But in Version 13.3
Stephen Wolfram
JANUARY 9, 2024
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.): is PositionSmallest.
Stephen Wolfram
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
For example, we know (as I discovered in 2000) that (( b · c ) · a ) · ( b · (( b · a ) · b )) = a is the minimal axiom system for Boolean algebra , because FindEquationalProof finds a path that proves it. And we can trace the argument for this to the Principle of Computational Equivalence.
Stephen Wolfram
AUGUST 29, 2024
In the end—after all sorts of philosophical arguments, and an analysis of actual historical data —the answer was: “It’s Complicated”. I’m particularly interested in how people develop through their lives—leading me recently, for example, to organize a 50-year reunion for my elementary school class.) OK, so that’s a lot of projects.
Stephen Wolfram
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
Events are like functions, whose “arguments” are incoming tokens, and whose output is one or more outgoing tokens. In physics, those “topological phenomena” presumably correspond to things like elementary particles , with all their various elaborate symmetries. One is so-called Böhm trees.
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