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Evidence Is Mounting That Calculus Should Be Changed. Will Instructors Heed It?

ED Surge

Calculus is a critical on-ramp to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Good news: There's mounting evidence that changing calculus instruction works for the groups usually pushed out of STEM. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

Calculus 323
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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

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Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Some educators place a share of the blame on calculus courses, which can push out otherwise interested students. Meanwhile, the calculus instruction has to be slowed down enough that it’s not as effective for math people as it could be. “I

Calculus 363
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New Effort Hopes to Make ‘Weed-Out’ Courses More Equitable

ED Surge

The project, funded from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and housed at Educause, prioritizes 20 key gateway courses, including introductory classes in biology, chemistry, English, economics and psychology, as well as math classes like algebra and calculus, and U.S. history surveys.

Chemistry 290
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Dear Educators, a Balm for Deep Cuts: Navigating Racial Microaggressions at School

ED Surge

educators — the lasting social and economic impact of COVID-19 and America’s ongoing racial reckoning; teacher burnout, trauma and mental health; low pay and low morale in the profession; public scapegoating of teachers; and the incessant escalation of demands on their time with shrinking professional resources.

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Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What’s Next

Stephen Wolfram

Meanwhile I started thinking about the relationship of methods from the Physics Project to distributed computing, and to economics. These philosophical questions made me internalize just how important the nature of the observer is in our Physics Project. And, yes, in a sense this was my “to do” list. I’d tried before—in the mid-1980s.

Physics 110
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Two Main Branches of Mathematics That Kids Need to Learn

STEM Education Guide

Elementary algebra is crucial for the study of engineering, science, medicine, and economics. Calculus calculates the immediate rates of change and is used for infinite series, derivatives, limits, integrals, and functions. Additionally, calculus comes in handy for the summation of small factors used to determine the whole number.

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How to Think Computationally about AI, the Universe and Everything

Stephen Wolfram

It’s a new paradigm—that actually seems to unlock things not only in fundamental physics, but also in the foundations of mathematics and computer science , and possibly in areas like biology and economics too. You know, I talked about building up the universe by repeatedly applying a computational rule. But how is that rule picked?

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