Jacobs Physics

JANUARY 31, 2022

Sure, they might make silly algebra errors like canceling across a plus sign. If we're going to successfully teach students how to derive equations as on a qualitative-quantitative translation question, those students must become comfortable figuring out where to start, and then not fretting over algebraic manipulation.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 23, 2025

Introducing Tabular Manipulating Data in Tabular Getting Data into Tabular Cleaning Data for Tabular The Structure of Tabular Tabular Everywhere Algebra with Symbolic Arrays Language Tune-Ups Brightening Our Colors; Spiffing Up for 2025 LLM Streamlining & Streaming Streamlining Parallel Computation: Launch All the Machines!

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Futurum

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Chi Hwan recommends taking courses in linear algebra, multivariate calculus, chemistry, statistics, dynamics, electricity, magnetism, physics and programming while at university. HOW DID CHI HWAN BECOME A BIOMEDICAL ENGINEER?

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STEM Sport

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

At the primary and secondary education levels, it is essential students improve their math literacy and exercise the ability to connect these concepts to the real world. Click here to learn more/purchase Try Your Luck Math Game The Try Your Luck Math game is for 7th grade students who are looking to improve their pre-algebra skills.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 1, 2022

This is the third installment of a series of posts focusing on the Four Pillars of Alternative Grading : The Four Pillars are a model that seeks to identify the elements that alternative forms of grading have in common elements whose primary goals are improving grading and making it focused on student growth.

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STEM Education Shopping

AUGUST 25, 2023

The three primary trigonometric ratios are sine (sin), cosine (cos), and tangent (tan). Understanding the Basics: Trigonometric Ratios To understand the basics of trigonometric ratios ( 2 ), it’s important to familiarize yourself with the relationships between angles and sides in a right triangle.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

This is the second part of a two-parter where I am going into detail about how the grading system in my current course, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, is set up. The first part, where I described the big picture of the course, its learning objectives, and what a "C" and "A" semester grade should mean, is here.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 15, 2022

be the primary measure of success in a course, and some measure of grace and flexibility will be included along with high standards and "rigor" And for other instructors, this concept raises more questions than answers. For some instructors, it provides hope that student growth will (finally!) Limit the frequency of reassessments.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

we added algebraic numbers (represented implicitly by Root )—and a dozen years later we added algebraic number fields and transcendental roots. And here again we’re always making progress, sometimes integrating newly available large-scale secondary data sources, and sometimes doing direct curation ourselves from primary sources.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But then—basically starting in the early 1980s—there was a burst of progress based on a new idea (of which, yes, I seem to have ultimately been the primary initiator): the idea of using simple programs , rather than mathematical equations, as the basis for models of things in nature and elsewhere. One is so-called Böhm trees.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But then—basically starting in the early 1980s—there was a burst of progress based on a new idea (of which, yes, I seem to have ultimately been the primary initiator): the idea of using simple programs , rather than mathematical equations, as the basis for models of things in nature and elsewhere. One is so-called Böhm trees.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

In 2000 I was interested in what the simplest possible axiom system for logic (Boolean algebra) might be. It’s worth mentioning, by the way, that while the three-body problem does show sensitive dependence on initial conditions , that’s not the primary issue here; rather, it’s the actual intrinsic complexity of the trajectories.)

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 16, 2022

Back in 2018—a year before beginning the Physics Project—I returned, for example, to what’s become known as the Wolfram Axiom: the axiom that I found in A New Kind of Science that is the very simplest possible axiom for Boolean algebra. I identified two primary ones, which I called “ ruliology ” and “ metamodeling ”.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Then McCarthy started to explain ways a computer could do algebra. It was all algebra. And the only conclusion we can arrive at is that a person can’t do this much algebra with the hope of getting it right.” And Minsky mentioned work a student of his was doing on the “AI problem” of symbolic integration.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

They need to learn algebra and need to be excellent at reading comprehension.” Yet if the primary aim of skills-based education is indeed to help companies with hiring, it’s not necessarily working on a wide scale so far. We are still very much of the view that young people need disciplinary knowledge,” he says.

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Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Almost any algebraic computation ends up somehow involving polynomials. can be manipulated as an algebraic number, but with minimal polynomial: &#10005. And all of this makes possible a transformative update to polynomial linear algebra, i.e. operations on matrices whose elements are (univariate) polynomials. &#10005.

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