Computer Science Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2022

The last few days have seem some social media discussion about requirements for a computer scientist. Is Calculus a requirement? Among the “yes” and “no” answers there are requests for a definition of a computer scientist. If truth there are many kinds of computer scientist and each kind has its own requirements.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

It’s of particular concern for reinforcing inequality in lucrative and vital science, technology, engineering and math careers, since the classification can knock students off the path to those positions. But a case of “senioritis” caused her to drop out of high school calculus. Cullum dropped out of calculus after that semester.

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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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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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STEM Education Guide

APRIL 15, 2022

Mathematics can be defined as the science of space, quantity, and number, as theoretically applied to other fields or as abstract concepts. As the science of relation, structure, and order, mathematics has advanced from elemental practices of measuring, counting, and shape description. Computation. What Is Mathematics?

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CSTEM

JULY 30, 2024

A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report examines the question. Elementary students rarely encounter computer science or engineering, and advanced science courses in high school favor higher-income, non-minority students. Written by: Reagan Flowers, Ph.D.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

If anything, over the past seven years, my feelings about the centrality of computing in the mathematics major have gotten even more entrenched. First, I know more computer science and computer programming now than I did in 2007. These days the computer plays a front-and-center role in all of my classes.

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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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National Science Foundation

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The biases are notably stark if schools are divided out by minority enrollment, as public middle and high schools with more than 50 percent White students have only 2 percent of mathematics teachers and 1 percent of science teachers that are Black ( National Center for Science & Engineering Statistics ). In comparison to the U.S.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JULY 5, 2021

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. Surprisingly, regular (not AP) calculus is also predictive of undergraduate CS success, but not regular CS.

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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. You know, I talked about building up the universe by repeatedly applying a computational rule.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But what I’ve increasingly been realizing is that actually it’s showing us something even bigger and deeper: a whole fundamentally new paradigm for making models and in general for doing theoretical science. But there remained plenty of phenomena—particularly associated with complexity—that this paradigm seemed to have little to say about.

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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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Futurum

JUNE 28, 2022

Machine learners use a mix of mathematics and computer science to develop and test their algorithms. I enjoy developing algorithms, deriving theory for them, and finally implementing them as a computer program to solve problems,” he says. “I WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO BECOME A COMPUTER SCIENTIST? Explore all your options.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

But what I’ve increasingly been realizing is that actually it’s showing us something even bigger and deeper: a whole fundamentally new paradigm for making models and in general for doing theoretical science. But there remained plenty of phenomena—particularly associated with complexity—that this paradigm seemed to have little to say about.

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

years of my career at Weehawken High School, where I taught Algebra I (students in grades seven to nine) and AP Calculus (grades 11-12). Currently I am on a team of two [fourth grade teachers], so I teach ELA and social studies while my partner teaches math and science. I spent the first 3.5 For the past 1.5

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STEM Education Guide

APRIL 18, 2022

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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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Beginning about five years ago—particularly energized by our Physics Project —I started looking at harvesting seeds I’d sown in A New Kind of Science and before. And, so far as I could tell, much like with rule 30 and all the other systems I’d investigated, nobody had ever seen serious complexity in simple recursive functions.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 29, 2024

I’ve spent my life alternating between technology and basic science, progressively building a taller and taller tower of practical capabilities and intellectual concepts (and sharing what I’ve done with the world). And at first I couldn’t see how computational rules could connect to what is known in physics. Nine books.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This is the first of a series of pieces I’m planning in connection with the upcoming 20th anniversary of the publication of A New Kind of Science. “There’s a Whole New Field to Build…” For me the story began nearly 50 years ago —with what I saw as a great and fundamental mystery of science. How is it made?

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

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.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Ed was someone who wanted to independently figure things out for himself, and delighted in presenting his often somewhat-outlandish conclusions—whether about technology, science, business or the world—with dramatic showman-like panache. Finally I felt as if there might be a plausible computational foundation for fundamental physics.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

And if we’re going to make a “general theory of mathematics” a first step is to do something like we’d typically do in natural science, and try to “drill down” to find a uniform underlying model—or at least representation—for all of them. And in the style of A New Kind of Science we can do ruliology to explore them. &#10005.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Such abstract functions could be used both “symbolically” to represent things, and explicitly to “compute” things. All sorts of (often ornate) formalism was developed in mathematical logic, with combinators arriving in 1920 , and lambda calculus in 1935.

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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 it’s one that I think has extremely deep implications—both in science and beyond. And this is where our pieces of “falsifiable natural science” come in.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 8, 2022

To make a closer analogy with quantum mechanics one can start thinking about combining different chunks of “multiway game play”, and trying to work out a calculus for how those chunks fit together. The explorations I’ve discussed here can be thought of as originating from a single note in A New Kind of Science.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The Second Law of thermodynamics is considered one of the great general principles of physical science. It’s all a story of the interplay between underlying computational irreducibility and our nature as computationally bounded observers. Mechanical work irreversibly turns into heat. Can we tighten up the formulation of all this?

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Or you could do what is the essence of theoretical science: make a model that gives some kind of procedure for computing the answer rather than just measuring and remembering each case. As we mentioned above, one can always think of a neural net as computing a mathematical function—that depends on its inputs, and its weights.

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PCS Edventures

MARCH 4, 2020

Calculus , which calculates rates of change and infinites. Science, technology, engineering and arts careers often rely upon at least one of these math specializations, so jobs with a math focus are often talked about under the other STEAM categories. Algebra , which incorporates unknown variables into arithmetic equations.

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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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Maydm

JUNE 11, 2021

As a high school student, Winnie had a passion for both math and the social sciences. Her teachers pushed her into the “easier” path of social sciences rather than encourage her interest in STEM subjects. As all of you know, my background is in engineering and Stef brings a background in the social sciences and cultural anthropology.

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