ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

EdSurge connected with Heitner to talk about what she’s learned and what advice she gives educators at all levels, from elementary school through college. History and not be getting your calculus grade right now. Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below. Maybe you should just be at AP U.S.

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Accelerate Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Of course, this principle gets more complex as students age, and math instruction in elementary school looks different than in high school.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2017

Elementary-age students think this is true, but something happens between 4th and 8th grade. Revel in that feeling of accomplishment that comes with doing the impossible–finding the answer to a calculus formula (or division problem) or programming a robot to walk across the room. Albert Einstein. Classroom Architect.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Responding to Microaggressions Everyday instances of casual racism are already insidious enough to bear, but the mental calculus one has to go through to figure out a response in these moments is part of the cumulative weight of microaggressions. There is a way we can connect."

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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). In the 2021-22 school year, I moved to an elementary school in Santa Rosa, California. I spent the first 3.5 For the past 1.5 What has been the most challenging and rewarding part of your job?

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STEM Education Guide

APRIL 15, 2022

It ranges from solving the study of abstractions to elementary equations. Elementary algebra is the most fundamental and the most abstract algebra is modern algebra. Elementary algebra is crucial for the study of engineering, science, medicine, and economics. For trigonometry, you should take a look at this step-by-step guide.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 10, 2022

And all of a sudden I'm taking Algebra 2, I'm taking Calculus. But from my point of view, being an elementary teacher, reading progress is amazing if you've never heard of it. He gave me a math test that I can just do it in my own language. You know, I start doing well in classes and showing that I can.

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Newton STEM

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Last year, NSF raised $191,000 and funded 52 projects , including these STEM-related ones: Math Challenge Boards for all Elementary Schools: Our goal is 50% of the K-5 student body at each school submitting Challenge Math work.

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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. Changing placement policies.

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STEM Sport

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Fall STEM Activities for Elementary Students Seed Germination Observations Description: Collect seeds from various fall fruits and vegetables (like pumpkins, squash, or apples) and plant them in transparent cups filled with soil. They can then graph or chart their findings using simple drawings.

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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. They have lessons like Intro to Multiplication and Division to advanced concepts in calculus and complex numbers. What makes School Yourself unique is the way that the application works.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 28, 2023

Line, Surface and Contour Integration “Find the integral of the function ” is a typical core thing one wants to do in calculus. But particularly in applications of calculus, it’s common to want to ask slightly more elaborate questions, like “What’s the integral of over the region ?”, or “What’s the integral of along the line ?”

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The Maker Mom

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Math League Math League brings the spirit of competition to children in elementary, middle, and high schools around the globe. Noetic Learning Math Contest Noetic Learning holds its Math Contest semi-annually with sessions for elementary and middle school students in the fall and spring.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2024

In addition to whole courses, we have “miniseries” of lectures about specific topics: And we also have courses —and books—about the Wolfram Language itself, like my Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language , which came out in a third edition this year (and has an associated course, online version, etc.):

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

“I suffered terribly during my 12th grade mathematics class (due to the teaching style and others telling me I couldn’t do math), but I am glad I persevered, as I earned an A and got accepted to the College of William and Mary, where I was able to study calculus again in a better environment. HOW DID KRISTIN BECOME A TEMPORAL LOGICIAN?

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Futurum

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Quarks are a type of ‘elementary particle’ that cannot be further subdivided. Quarks come in six different types, or ‘flavours’, – up, down, top, bottom, strange and charm – and they are held together by gluons, another type of elementary particle. Develop these by taking classes such as mathematics, calculus and programming.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 23, 2023

But then mathematical notation was invented, and math took off—with the development of algebra, calculus, and eventually all the various mathematical sciences. And when I was writing my book An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language this became particularly obvious.

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National Science Foundation

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Figure 1 illustrates the differences in access to STEM courses between schools with low enrollments of Black and Hispanic students versus those with high enrollments, with the most notable gaps existing in advanced mathematics, calculus, and computer science. Elementary & Secondary STEM Education. link] National Science Board.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

It’s not why Tim Huber, principal at Harris Creek Elementary School, part of North Carolina’s Wake County Public School System, is seeing more and more children in the early grades show up to school wearing smartwatches. “It The psychology of fear—it’s extremely powerful,” says Huber, the elementary school principal. “We

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Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The most elementary example of something like this is the statement ( already present in Euclid ) that if and , then. But what about other models of computation—like cellular automata or register machines or lambda calculus? elementary updating events) in physical space.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In physics, those “topological phenomena” presumably correspond to things like elementary particles , with all their various elaborate symmetries. Ultimately one wants to see how the structure and behavior of the system can be broken down into elementary “tokens” and “events”. One is so-called Böhm trees.

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Stephen Wolfram

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In physics, those “topological phenomena” presumably correspond to things like elementary particles , with all their various elaborate symmetries. Ultimately one wants to see how the structure and behavior of the system can be broken down into elementary “tokens” and “events”. One is so-called Böhm trees.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 29, 2024

I’m particularly interested in how people develop through their lives—leading me recently, for example, to organize a 50-year reunion for my elementary school class.) A test example coming soon is whether I can easily explain math ideas like algebra and calculus this way.) OK, so that’s a lot of projects.

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Stephen Wolfram

MARCH 7, 2022

One might have thought that theorems involving “more sophisticated concepts” (like Ramsey’s theorem ) would appear later than “more elementary” ones (like the sum of angles of a triangle). In physical space “human scale” is of order a meter—or perhaps elementary lengths.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

It didn’t help that his knowledge of physics was at best spotty (and, for example, I don’t think he ever really learned calculus). But suffice it say to that Ed’s old nemesis—calculus—comes in very handy. It’s actually a nice application for calculus. The details are a bit complicated—and I’ve put them in an appendix below.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Once one has the idea of “equilibrium”, one can then start to think of its properties as purely being functions of certain parameters—and this opens up all sorts of calculus-based mathematical opportunities. That anything like this makes sense depends, however, yet again on “perfect randomness as far as the observer is concerned”.

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PCS Edventures

MARCH 4, 2020

Calculus , which calculates rates of change and infinites. To make math resonate with your elementary school learners, check out BrickLAB: Famous Architecture. Algebra , which incorporates unknown variables into arithmetic equations. Geometry , which studies the measurements and properties of shapes.

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Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 13, 2021

there are now many integrals that could previously be done only in terms of special functions, but now give results in elementary functions. Also in the area of calculus we’ve added various conveniences to the handling of differential equations. But in Version 13.0 Here’s an example: &#10005. In Version 12.3

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Maydm

JUNE 11, 2021

And so, after I returned back to Madison, I was in a conversation with a former elementary school principal at Fulton Elementary. “Miss Winnie, I tried to sign up for AP calculus and my counselor told me that, you know, she asked me ‘Are you sure you want to take that?'”

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Stephen Wolfram

DECEMBER 14, 2022

An instantaneous moment (or perhaps a single elementary time from our Physics Project )? Calculus & Its Generalizations. Is there still more to do in calculus? Oh, and then what granularity of time are you talking about? A month (whatever that means)? Another new tree feature in Version 13.2

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Several teachers in New York started the effort around a decade ago, and Zearn is now used by a quarter of elementary school students and more than a million middle school students around the country, according to sign-on figures tracked by the group. We believe that it's critical for some kids to be exposed to calculus.

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