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How To Make Someone Not Hate Math

ED Surge

Reflecting on my own self-identification, I had a vague sense it had something to do with Holifield’s Algebra II class, which I took in ninth grade. It’s important to ensure messages or opportunities to engage in math are equal for everyone they teach, she says. But a case of “senioritis” caused her to drop out of high school calculus.

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

CSTEM

For instance, only 38% of schools serving predominantly Black and Latinx students offer calculus, compared to 50% of all high schools. In middle schools offering algebra, white students make up 50% of the attendees, but 58% of those enrolled in algebra classes. Economic disparities are just as stark. Changing placement policies.

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

Stephen Wolfram

It’s equally, if not more, important for human-like AIs as well—immediately giving them what we can think of as computational knowledge superpowers, that leverage the non-human-like power of structured computation and structured knowledge. It’s a tremendously powerful way of working.

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

Stephen Wolfram

Line, Surface and Contour Integration “Find the integral of the function ” is a typical core thing one wants to do in calculus. But particularly in applications of calculus, it’s common to want to ask slightly more elaborate questions, like “What’s the integral of over the region ?”, or “What’s the integral of along the line ?”

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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

In more explicit form we could write this as Equal [f[x_, y_], f[f[y_, x_],y_]] —where Equal ( ) has the “known meaning” of representing equality. and at t steps gives a total number of rules equal to: &#10005. So how about logic, or, more specifically Boolean algebra ? &#10005. &#10005.

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Grading in my Discrete Mathematics class: a 3x3x3 reflection

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Here's the one from Winter 2021 for calculus and here's the one for modern algebra. I only have a preliminary tabulation of the course grades right now, but it's the most striking bimodal distribution I have ever seen, with a large number of D grades and an almost equally large number of A's.