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STEM Programs: How to Choose the Right Major

STEM Education Guide

If your child is gifted in the arts of math or science, it’s not a bad idea to encourage a STEM career. It’s an acronym that encompasses science, technology, engineering, and math. Let’s look at the main branches: Science in STEM. Additionally, the legendary ‘Science Guy’ Bill Nye joined TikTok.

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Fall STEM Activities

STEM Sport

Educational Benefit: This activity introduces students to classification and basic math concepts. Educational Benefit: This experiment helps students understand the Earth’s rotation, the changing angle of sunlight during the day, and the basics of astronomy. They can then graph or chart their findings using simple drawings.

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

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Yesterday I got an email from a reader who had read this post called What should math majors know about computing? First, I know more computer science and computer programming now than I did in 2007. Math majors need the former kind of computing fluency. Mostly this is because of two things.

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

Stephen Wolfram

Meanwhile, at the beginning of the 1800s Joseph Fourier (1768–1830) (science advisor to Napoleon) developed what became his 1822 Analytical Theory of Heat , and in it he begins by noting that : Heat, like gravity, penetrates every substance of the universe, its rays occupy all parts of space.

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