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Students Are Not Well, and It's Our Job to Save Them

ED Surge

Wellness involves nurturing not only our physical health but also our emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual, environmental, career, financial and creative dimensions. He played sports but did not tend to his physical wellness, especially on his steady diet of noodles and Takis.

Physics 200
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Could Play Boost Students’ Math Performance?

ED Surge

Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. Early on in a students progression, there are also a lot of items for students to physically handle, such as linking cubes or colorful plastic bears that students use to count, she says.

Math 315
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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.

Calculus 363
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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.

Math 316
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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.

Sciences 295
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What is a Growth Mindset?

Ask a Tech Teacher

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.