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Tech Teacher Appreciation Week May 6-10, 2024

Ask a Tech Teacher

They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus. There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics.

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How To Make Someone Not Hate Math

ED Surge

It’s important to ensure messages or opportunities to engage in math are equal for everyone they teach, she says. But a case of “senioritis” caused her to drop out of high school calculus. Cullum dropped out of calculus after that semester. She had taken Algebra I, Algebra II and calculus with him.

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

CSTEM

For instance, only 38% of schools serving predominantly Black and Latinx students offer calculus, compared to 50% of all high schools. At C-STEM, we are fortunate to have teachers who embrace our curriculum and engage all students equally in STEM. Economic disparities are just as stark. Changing placement policies.

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Register by June 27 for MIT’s Virtual HSSP — Sundays in Summer for Grades 7-12+

Newton STEM

Registration is now open until June 27 on a lottery basis, with equal consideration given to all applicants registering by that deadline. MIT’s Summer HSSP is a weekend academic program ( July 9-August 13 ) for students entering Grades 7-12 (plus those who just graduated high school). For more information, email summer-hssp@mit.edu.

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There is transfer between programming and other subjects: Skills overlap, but it may not be causal

Computing Education Research Blog

planning): Despite the increasing attention computer programming has received recently (Grover & Pea, 2013), programming skills do not transfer equally to different skills—a finding that Sala and Gobet (2017a) supported in other domains.

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

Stephen Wolfram

It’s equally, if not more, important for human-like AIs as well—immediately giving them what we can think of as computational knowledge superpowers, that leverage the non-human-like power of structured computation and structured knowledge. It’s a tremendously powerful way of working.

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