Computing Education Research Blog

JULY 12, 2021

Computational thinking and modeling which describes how data and algorithms are used to construct digital solutions and artifacts. computer systems, networking) used to construct digital solutions and artifacts. Technological knowledge and skills which describes the tools (e.g., programming languages) and infrastructures (e.g.,

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 5, 2024

Three centuries ago science was transformed by the idea of representing the world using mathematics. A lot of science—and technology—has been constructed specifically around computationally reducible phenomena. And that’s for example why things like mathematical formulas have been able to be as successful in science as they have.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 31, 2023

It began partly as an empirical law, and partly as something abstractly constructed on the basis of the idea of molecules, that nobody at the time knew for sure existed. There were still mathematical loose ends, as well as issues such as its application to living systems and to systems involving gravity.

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Energy Physics Argumentation Mathematics 89

Futurum

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Library and research skills cover areas such as knowing how to reference and cite authors properly, being able to discern between reliable and unreliable sources of information, accessing scientific literature and giving accurate evidence-based arguments when writing scientific essays and reports. What do students learn from studying this?

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Biology STEM Chemistry Critical Thinking 81

National Science Foundation

JANUARY 20, 2022

Now, this is usually where I would launch into a well-honed set of arguments explicating the various economic, societal, and moral imperatives which make clear the need for America to tackle issues of equity and inclusion through a systemic transformation approach to cultivate a larger and more inclusive STEMM workforce.

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Argumentation Biology Achievement Accessibility 98

The Science Penguin

AUGUST 11, 2023

The DCI states, “Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.” At the end of the unit, students construct explanations using evidence collected from the activities, investigations, and readings to answer this question: How can we use maps to reduce the impact of natural disasters?

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Critical Thinking Argumentation Engineering Science 52

Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It’s yet another surprising construct that’s arisen from our Physics Project. And—it should be said at the outset—we’re still only at the very beginning of nailing down those technical details and setting up the difficult mathematics and formalism they involve.) In some ways it’s a bit like our efforts to construct the ruliad.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 28, 2023

They’re mathematically more complex, but each one we successfully cover makes a new collection of problems accessible to exact solution and reliable numerical and symbolic computation. It’s the end of a long journey, and a satisfying achievement in the quest to make as much mathematical knowledge as possible automatically computable.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2016

Where they diverge from you and I is they haven’t tested all the available methods for planning a story, constructing non-fiction, or building the evidence-based argument. Researching and creating timelines appeals to students’ visual, mathematic, and kinesthetic intelligences. an online tool.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

And if we treat these as equivalent and merge them we now get: (The question of “state equivalence” is a subtle one, that ultimately depends on the operation of the observer, and how the observer constructs their perception of what’s going on. It’s a new kind of fundamentally multiway construct.

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Physics Computer Argumentation Construction 100

Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 29, 2024

Pleasantly enough, given our framework, many modern areas of mathematical physics seemed to fit right in.) I had realized that one of the places the ideas of the Physics Project should apply was to the foundations of mathematics, and to metamathematics. And now the responsibility had fallen on us to do this.

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PCS Edventures

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

While sciences and mathematics may take center stage, literacy skills have always been waiting in the wings, ready to make their debut. Mathematics and Literacy. Well, in recent years, you may have noticed an increased focus on supporting scientific thinking with written and oral arguments. We can’t forget literacy in math!

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Mathematics Engineering Argumentation Science 52

Stephen Wolfram

MAY 23, 2023

And for example doing a very simple piece of machine learning , we again get a symbolic object which can be used as a function and applied to an argument to get a result: And so it is with LLMFunction. By giving a second argument to LLMFunction you can say you want actual, structured computable output. are symbolic objects.

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Technology Argumentation Computer Publication 69

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Its key idea is to think of things in the world as being constructed from some kind of simple-to-describe elements—say geometrical objects—and then to use something like logical reasoning to work out what will happen with them. In the mathematical paradigm one imagines having a mathematical equation and then separately somehow solving it.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Its key idea is to think of things in the world as being constructed from some kind of simple-to-describe elements—say geometrical objects—and then to use something like logical reasoning to work out what will happen with them. In the mathematical paradigm one imagines having a mathematical equation and then separately somehow solving it.

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Wisconsin Science and STEM Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The second target connects to several science and engineering practices, with clear mathematical connections. It’s notable that their system aims to connect to literacy and mathematics learning while focusing on meaningful science practices. Supports conclusions with logical arguments. Collects, interprets, and applies data.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

Then for each function (or other construct in the language) there are pages that explain the function, with extensive examples. One new construct added in Version 13.1 —and And now there’s a way to specify that, using Threaded : In a sense, Threaded is part of a new wave of symbolic constructs that have “ambient effects” on lists.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 17, 2023

I strongly believe that the world needs engineers with strong critical thinking skills, who know how to ask questions, understand bias, construct and evaluate arguments, and think comprehensively and creatively. I love mathematics, problem solving and logical thinking. This goes hand in hand with ethical thinking.

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Vivify Stem

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Practices include: Asking questions (science) / Defining problems (engineering) Developing and using models Planning and carrying out investigations Analyzing and interpreting data Using mathematical and computation thinking Construction Explanations (science) / Designing Solutions (engineering) Engaging in Arguments from evidence Obtaining and evaluating (..)

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It’s a story I’ve told elsewhere , but one of the important elements for our purposes here is that in designing the system I called SMP (for “Symbolic Manipulation Program”) I ended up digging deeply into the foundations of computation, and its connections to areas like mathematical logic.

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Wisconsin Science and STEM Education

DECEMBER 4, 2018

. · Investigating and Building Evidence – This category combines the practices of Planning and Carrying Out Investigations and Analyzing and Interpreting Data, with Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking. Further, they employ mathematical thinking as they design plans for collecting quantitative data and make sense of data sets.

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Science Sciences Argumentation Energy 40

Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Sometimes textbooks will gloss over everything; sometimes they’ll give some kind of “common-sense-but-outside-of-physics argument”. In some types of rules it’s basically always there , by construction. But one never quite gets there ; it always seems to need something extra. But the mystery of the Second Law has never gone away.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 15, 2022

Those assessments can take on various forms, and in well-constructed courses they do have varying forms, corresponding to different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. An argument for traditional grading goes like this: Sure, a single assessment might have a grade on it that doesn't accurately reflect student understanding.

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PHYSICS! BLOG!

JULY 6, 2017

Experimentally, graphically, and mathematically determine the mass, volume, and density of a substance. Explain energy ideas in words and construct arguments that use diagrams as evidence. Represent substances and changes in substances at the particle level that are consistent with the Law of Conservation of Mass.

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Chemistry Energy Physics Math 40

Stephen Wolfram

MAY 17, 2021

And for example in 1978 the following “radius 3” rule (operating on size-7 neighborhoods) was constructed (and we’ll call it the “GKL rule”): &#10005. But in the 1980s a complicated cellular automaton was constructed that it was possible to prove would not show such behavior. But it turns out that this isn’t true.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

He was going for what he saw as the big prize: using them to “construct the universe”. It explains that III has four divisions: Mathematical and Programming Services, Behavioral Science, Operations, and “New York”. So what happened is Marvin [Minsky] and I basically fleshed out the idea of a mathematical thing.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 29, 2022

we have a new symbolic construct, Threaded , that effectively allows you to easily generalize listability. You can give Threaded as an argument to any listable function, not just Plus and Times : &#10005. we’re adding SymmetricDifference : find elements that (in the 2-argument case) are in one list or the other, but not both.

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Stephen Wolfram

MAY 20, 2021

Having this as a single function makes it easier to use in functional programming constructs like this: &#10005. But sometimes it’s much more convenient to get the subgraph (and in fact in the formalism of our Physics Project that subgraph—that we view as a “ geodesic ball ”—is a rather central construct). So in Version 12.3

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