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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

ED Surge

Around the country, “ math wars ” are raging over attempts to increase equity by playing down calculus from the curriculum in favor of statistics or computer science, or by delaying when students take algebra. For the high school summer program at Harvard, though, only algebra II was required. But it’s hardly a foregone conclusion.

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How To Make Someone Not Hate Math

ED Surge

A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. 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. She had taken Algebra I, Algebra II and calculus with him.

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What is a Growth Mindset?

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The cerebral and physical traits they were born with are just the starting point. It’s easy to say, “Cassie just doesn’t get Algebra” but notice why. They come to believe that understanding and adapting to this process equates to success. Are there holes that need filling? Does she do things differently?

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

Stephen Wolfram

1 Mathematics and Physics Have the Same Foundations. 2 The Underlying Structure of Mathematics and Physics. 23 The Physicalized Laws of Mathematics. 29 Counting the Emes of Mathematics and Physics. 1 | Mathematics and Physics Have the Same Foundations. 3 The Metamodeling of Axiomatic Mathematics. Graphical Key.

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Can quantum physics make the internet more secure?

Futurum

Can quantum physics make the internet more secure? QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT — the physical phenomenon that occurs when a group of particles interact in such a way that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently of the state of the others. Fields of research : Quantum Physics, Quantum Technology, Optics.

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Growing Up, I Hated Science. Now, I Help My Students Discover the Magic in It.

ED Surge

Two truths and one lie I often share with my class are: I am a physics teacher I hate science I love dogs The lie, unfortunately, is that I love dogs — they’re fine; I’m just not a pet person. In this case, I really am a physics teacher who, at one point , hated science; in fact, I spent the better part of the past decade trying to escape it.

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Expression Evaluation and Fundamental Physics

Stephen Wolfram

And it’s all based on ideas from our Physics Project —and on a fundamental correspondence between what’s happening at the lowest level in all physical processes and in expression evaluation. And this is where we can start making an analogy with physics. And now there’s a deep analogy to physics.

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