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The Role of Mathematics in Education

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The Role of Mathematics in Education: What Professions You Can Get in the Future Have you ever found yourself pondering the real-world applications of those algebraic formulas or geometric theorems you spent hours trying to decipher in school? There you can get advice and solve various mathematical problems in college.

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A Case for ‘Radical Simplification’ in Higher Education

ED Surge

In ten days’ time, we had to reinvent college-level mathematics instruction on a large scale—more than 100 sections of courses and nearly 3000 students—with no playbook. But have we made a similar commitment to this kind of communication with ourselves?

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Unlocking the Power of Creativity and AI: Preparing Students for the Future Workforce

ED Surge

As such, many students enter college and the workforce not having enough practice in key critical thinking skills that they need to be innovative problem-solvers and effective communicators. That wasn't the case.

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Is Economics STEM – Why Colleges Want Economics to Be a STEM Major

STEM Education Guide

It’s a curriculum that revolves around the idea of educating students in four particular disciplines; mathematics , technology, science, and engineering. Economics Employs Math for Concise Communication There’s no doubt that economics is part of the social sciences, given that it studies human behavior. What Is STEM? —— 6.

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Grading in my Discrete Mathematics class: a 3x3x3 reflection

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Here's the one from Winter 2021 for calculus and here's the one for modern algebra. This semester I taught two sections of Discrete Structures for Computer Science 1, an entry-level course for Computer Science majors on the mathematical foundations of computing. The extent to which communication was a burden to students.

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Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT

Stephen Wolfram

And indeed one of the great achievements of our civilization over the past several centuries has been to build up the paradigms of mathematics, the exact sciences—and, most importantly, now computation—and to create a tower of capabilities quite different from what pure human-like thinking can achieve.

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AP Physics C in April - don't worry about math!

Jacobs Physics

He is in AP Calculus BC. In the first part of the year, I had him focus on the mathematics that overlay the concepts he learned in Physics 1. He watched all the "AP Daily" videos for Physics C, he practiced new mathematical techniques like integration to find displacement/work/center-of-mass-location/rotational inertia.

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