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UCLA Life Sciences Revamped How It Teaches Math. Is It an Example Others Should Follow?

ED Surge

This ultimately led to a new introductory life sciences math course, Mathematics for Life Sciences (the LS 30 series). The need for biology students to understand math concepts has become increasingly important, especially with the digital revolution sweeping across science. Many leaders in the field want to change these statistics.

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STEM Career Spotlight: Women In STEM

Accelerate Learning

Historically, women in STEM are often overlooked, undervalued, and even discouraged from pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. But today, women in STEM are breaking barriers, shattering glass ceilings, and achieving incredible accomplishments that are changing the world.

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The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics

Stephen Wolfram

1 Mathematics and Physics Have the Same Foundations. 2 The Underlying Structure of Mathematics and Physics. 3 The Metamodeling of Axiomatic Mathematics. 4 Simple Examples with Mathematical Interpretations. 15 Axiom Systems of Present-Day Mathematics. 21 What Can Human Mathematics Be Like?

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The Math Revolution You Haven’t Heard About

ED Surge

Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. A room of educators gets schooled on the rigors of mathematical modeling in the life sciences. It left an impression.

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Ward’s Science–So Many STEM Resources

Ask a Tech Teacher

Basically, it’s because there aren’t enough education opportunities that require that sort of skill and those there are, usually rhyme with ‘math’ or ‘science’ which to many kids are “just too complicated” Enter STEM–Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. “I No animations.

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6 Worthwhile Websites for High School Classes

Ask a Tech Teacher

To that end, here are six worthy websites and digital tools that will make high school classes more engaging, more effective, and more student-centered than ever: 1 Monster Physics®. Monster Physics is a building game that lets kids ten and above explore the principles of physics. currently), iOS only. 2 Crash course.

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Top 5 Trends in Virtual Reality for Education

PCS Edventures

For example: Physics students can experiment with gravity, friction, and motion in a virtual physics lab, adjusting variables in real time and observing the outcomes. Biology students can virtually dissect organisms without the ethical or financial constraints of traditional dissections. The future of education isnt just VR.