Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 28, 2022

I know–a geeky, scary three-letter word that makes even math aficionados decide to choose advanced calculus rather than computer programming. While learning how to code through a book isn’t the best option (coding is better taught through solving problems on the computer), books can be great secondary resources.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Our coverage of new approaches to math education drew the most interest from readers, with two different features exploring how to rethink calculus making our Top 5. EdSurge takes you inside Harvard’s Science Center, where this summer, professors imagined new ways to push calculus past its limits. Will Instructors Heed It?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 10, 2023

They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus. Life after the 100th crashed computer is what might be called a life-defining moment. So, do try to fix your broken computer yourself (i.e., Simply talking to us often made a colleague feel like a rock, only dumber.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 2, 2022

They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus. Life after the 100th crashed computer is what might be called a life-defining moment. So, do try to fix your broken computer yourself (i.e., Again – leave the room; come back later. Then, you’ll feel at home.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 22, 2020

They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of mathematical functions, even smile at the mention of calculus. Life after the 100th crashed computer is what Oprah might call a life-defining moment. Do try to fix your broken computer yourself (i.e., Again–leave the room; come back later.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2023

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. I think about things as a human.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 3, 2020

They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus. Life after the 100th crashed computer is what might be called a life-defining moment. So, do try to fix your broken computer yourself (i.e., Again – leave the room; come back later. Then, you’ll feel at home.

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Stephen Wolfram

OCTOBER 27, 2023

And in our century there’s a new and yet more powerful one: computation. And for nearly 50 years I’ve had the great privilege of building an ever taller tower of science and technology based on that idea of computation. And I ended that talk with a question: is computation ultimately what’s underneath everything in our universe?

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Computing Education Research Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

My activities in computing education these days are organized around two main projects: Defining computing education for undergraduates in the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and Arts (see earlier blog post referencing this effort ); Participatory design of Teaspoon languages (mentioned most recently in this blog post ).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Provided by CSERD (the Computational Science Education Reference Desk), Interactivate offers a series of free web-based math games, puzzles, and challenges for students in grades K-12. Math topics include everything from counting, place-value, and graphs for youngers to geometry, algebra, and pre-calculus for high school.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Being a computer science teacher, I thought I had a natural affinity for technology that could translate into a successful tech-agnostic approach to curriculum and instruction; however, by Thanksgiving of the following year, I had led one too many uninspiring and demoralizing online classes where it felt like I was talking into a deep, dark void.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2017

Mathematics happens everywhere–at the grocery store, the bank, the family budget, the affirmative nod from parents to update a child’s computer to their agreement to add apps from the app store. According to the Bureau of Labor and Management: … jobs in computing and mathematics are projected to grow by 20 percent.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

And those have always been the kind of problems that computers have supported students fairly nimbly in solving.” I mean, he took calculus in seventh grade. “The kind of math that we saw on there,” Meyer said, referring to the demo, “was an operational problem well summarized in a single diagram that results in a single number.

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Newton STEM

MARCH 12, 2023

The Calculus Project works in all of Newton’s middle and high schools to have more Hispanic, African American, and low-income students successfully complete calculus in high school, as a path to success in college. The program provides intensive, small-group summer classes, enrichment activities, and year-round mentoring and tutoring.

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Newton STEM

MARCH 13, 2022

The Calculus Project works in all of Newton’s middle and high schools to have more Hispanic, African American, and low-income students successfully complete calculus in high school, as a path to success in college. The program provides intensive, small-group summer classes, enrichment activities, and year-round mentoring and tutoring.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Study.com (formerly called Education-Portal) is a distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, physics, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and more) aligned with popular textbooks. Things to know. The webcam recording is submitted with the final exam.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

As I teach my Linear Algebra and Differential Equations class this semester, which uses more computing than ever, I'm thinking even more about these topics. Yesterday I got an email from a reader who had read this post called What should math majors know about computing? Mostly this is because of two things.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Most are about five minutes (some longer, some shorter) and cover topics like chemistry, physics, calculus, geometry, biology, Algebra, trigonometry, grammar, ACT prep, and SAT prep. Bright Science is a free YouTube channel of over 1300 study videos for high schoolers (or precocious middle schoolers). Education.com Songs.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

While TI calculators are still ubiquitous and useful especially when working in higher math classes like Trigonometry or Calculus, Desmos is an online graphic calculator that can do everything the $100+ TI calculators can do and more (and did I mention it’s free?).

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STEM Education Guide

MARCH 8, 2023

However, one thing that’s often overlooked is computer science education, an incredibly essential subject and skill in today’s digital era. —–If you and your kids are interested in building a DIY computer, take a look at my article here, Best DIY Computer Build Kits. What Is Computer Science?

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STEMe

DECEMBER 3, 2023

More importantly, however, the advent of computers in the mid-1900s paved the way for a new, more advanced form of stock trading known as quantitative analysis, forever changing the state of the stock market. The trader will then instruct the computer to automatically buy the stock when it hits $25 and sell when it hits $30.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 28, 2023

We’ve worked very hard to make its design as clean and coherent as possible—and to make it a timeless way to elegantly represent computation and everything that can be described through it. Last Friday I fired up Version 1 on an old Mac SE/30 computer (with 2.5 Last Friday I fired up Version 1 on an old Mac SE/30 computer (with 2.5

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

See also: “Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT” » It’s Just Adding One Word at a Time That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected. But how does it do it? And why does it work?

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

And all those years we’ve been continuing to build a taller and taller tower of capabilities, progressively expanding the scope of our vision and the breadth of our computational coverage of the world: Version 1.0 In the arc of intellectual history it defines a broad, new, computational paradigm for formalizing the world.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Because somehow in the computational universe—and in the world of ruliology —there are always surprises. The Basic Idea Consider the definition (later we’ll call this “P312”) which we can also write as: The first few values for f [ n ] generated from this definition are: Continuing further we get: But how are these values actually computed?

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STEM Education Guide

APRIL 15, 2022

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. Check out this book for middle schoolers to get a better hold on calculus. Computation.

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Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Think of it as the entangled limit of everything that is computationally possible: the result of following all possible computational rules in all possible ways. And as such, it traces out the entangled consequences of progressively applying all possible computational rules. The Entangled Limit of Everything. I call it the ruliad.

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Physics Mathematics Computer Construction 121

Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

But some of it has immediate practical implications, notably for parallel, distributed, nondeterministic and quantum-style computing. The key point is that a given event cannot happen unless all the inputs to it are available, i.e. have already been computed. Some of what this will lead us to is deeply abstract.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JULY 5, 2021

The cognitive benefits of learning computer programming: A meta-analysis of transfer effects ” was making the rounds on Twitter. This finding is like a recent paper out of Harvard (see link here ) that shows that AP Calculus and AP CS both predict success in undergraduate computer science classes.

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Futurum

JUNE 28, 2022

ALGORITHM – a sequence of well-defined rules that allows computers to make calculations and solve problems. MACHINE LEARNING – a type of artificial intelligence in which computers learn from past data in order to predict outcomes more accurately. … which they must then implement in computer code. Pinterest.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

By adopting this approach, Kristin is able to solve meaningful problems in aerospace engineering, robotics, cybersecurity, theoretical computer science, mathematics, virtual reality, and more. Ultimately, that set me on the path to the computer science programme that changed my life and set me on my current trajectory.”.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But there is something else too—and it’s from this that the full computational paradigm emerges. And this is the essence of the computational paradigm: to define a model using computational rules (say, for a cellular automaton ) and then explicitly be able to run these to work out their consequences.

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CSTEM

JULY 30, 2024

Elementary students rarely encounter computer science or engineering, and advanced science courses in high school favor higher-income, non-minority students. For instance, only 38% of schools serving predominantly Black and Latinx students offer calculus, compared to 50% of all high schools.

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Newton STEM

JUNE 18, 2023

– An Introduction to Multivariable Calculus Developmental Immunology Cancer Warriors: Unleashing the Power of Your Immune System against Cancer From Earth to Space: Introduction to Space Medicine Electrifying Biochemistry Saving the World with the Science of Sustainability!

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The Maker Mom

JANUARY 17, 2024

Children between 6th and 12th grades can easily find an appropriate course in algebra, geometry, algebra 2, and pre-calculus. There are courses on everything a child could want to learn about, including science, economics, computing, and so much more. What makes School Yourself unique is the way that the application works.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But there is something else too—and it’s from this that the full computational paradigm emerges. And this is the essence of the computational paradigm: to define a model using computational rules (say, for a cellular automaton ) and then explicitly be able to run these to work out their consequences.

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STEM Education Guide

APRIL 18, 2022

Although technology can merge with other fields, such as engineering, people usually use the term to define computer-related careers. While a software engineer designs and develops new systems and programs for computers, computer programmers code software that a software engineer plans. Engineering in STEM.

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