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How far has education really come in terms of reducing inequities?

CSTEM

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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LLM Tech and a Lot More: Version 13.3 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

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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Contending with the Unintended Consequences of History: Revisiting Brown v. Board of Education and the Need for Systemic Change in K-12 Education

National Science Foundation

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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The Concept of the Ruliad

Stephen Wolfram

For integers, the obvious notion of equivalence is numerical equality. The most elementary example of something like this is the statement ( already present in Euclid ) that if and , then. Then (by the assumed properties of equality) it follows that. elementary updating events) in physical space.

Physics 121
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Launching Version 13.0 of Wolfram Language + Mathematica

Stephen Wolfram

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 And in Version 13.0

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

Stephen Wolfram

In more explicit form we could write this as Equal [f[x_, y_], f[f[y_, x_],y_]] —where Equal ( ) has the “known meaning” of representing equality. and at t steps gives a total number of rules equal to: &#10005. which we can read as “there exists something a for which equals a ”. &#10005. &#10005.

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Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Stephen Wolfram

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”.