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Students Are Busy but Rarely Thinking, Researcher Argues. Do His Teaching Strategies Work Better?

ED Surge

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

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Talented Students Are Kept From Early Algebra. Should States Force Schools to Enroll Them?

ED Surge

That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. For some researchers, California misstepped. It’s a phenomenon researchers are painfully aware of.

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If We’re Serious About Student Well-Being, We Must Change the Systems Students Learn In

ED Surge

But while working with schools and colleges across the globe as we conducted research for our book , we realized that most interventions don’t address systemic issues causing mental health problems in the first place. Indeed, a meta-analysis of research on this issue found a correlation between homework and achievement.

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Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son

ED Surge

For this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we talked with Khan to hear more about his vision of AI tutors and the arguments from his recent book. You note in your book that back when you were an undergraduate at MIT, you originally wanted to be an AI researcher. What would you say to that argument? Why were you drawn to that area?

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What should mathematics majors know about computing, and when should they know it?

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

I’ve learned Python over the last three years along with some of its related systems like NumPy and SciPy , and I’ve successfully used Python as a tool in my research. Can anyone seriously imagine banning microscope technology from the biology major, on the argument that biology is a more pure discipline without the technology?

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How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

He starts off by saying about Carnot’s book: The idea which serves as a basis of his researches seems to me to be both fertile and beyond question; his demonstrations are founded on the absurdity of the possibility of creating motive power or heat out of nothing.

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

Stephen Wolfram

too—delivering the latest from our long-term research and development pipeline. Across the 35 years since Version 1 we’ve been able to continue accelerating our research and development process, year by year building on the functionality and automation we’ve created. But while LLMs are “the biggest single story” in Version 13.3,

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