ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 6, 2024

There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics. They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. These are the students who end up hitting a wall when math courses move from easier algebra to more advanced concepts in, say, calculus, he argues. “At

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 3, 2021

There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics. They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. That’s it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2017

STEM is the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. 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. These four topics cover every aspect of our life.

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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. The teaching profession has our own version of these nerdy individuals, called technology teachers. School lore probably says they can drop a pin through a straw without touching the sides.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’m not talking about people choosing not to study calculus. Contrary to what might be expected, it disproportionately affects high-ability students who default from efficient mathematical strategies that rely on working memory to less-efficient ones. Math anxiety is a corrosive agent in the STEM talent pipeline.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

Which students get to attempt intellectually stimulating courses like calculus may rely in part on where they attend high school rather than just their aptitude for math, according to a new study. It was the first publication based on RAND’s American Mathematics Educator Study. That’s something she sees in math tracking as well.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 2, 2022

There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics. They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. That’s it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 22, 2020

There’s always been something mystical about people in technical professions–engineering, science, mathematics. They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of mathematical functions, even smile at the mention of calculus. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

It’s an approach that’s embraced by the revised California Math Framework , a guide for teaching math in the state. We believe that it's critical for some kids to be exposed to calculus. And we should probably expand the pipeline of young people who take calculus in high school.”

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Since math classes progress in a mostly linear way, students have to get fractions to set them up for algebra; and how they do in algebra will likely influence whether they even get to try for advanced courses like calculus, a traditional weed-out metric for lucrative science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers. isn’t working.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

But in college, where she’s a business major, calculus is proving insurmountable. Instead, she argues, when teachers give their students a chance to tackle these problems first, it lets students make sense of the mathematics they are learning. Ideally, teachers would possess a deep familiarity with math and also with how to teach it.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. We have a responsibility to really explore that to its fullest potential.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 3, 2020

There’s always been something mystically cerebral about people in technical professions like engineering, science, and mathematics. They talk animatedly about plate tectonics, debate the structure of atoms, even smile at the mention of calculus. How to Teach a Tech Lesson–the Movie. Find a clever tie-in to your topic.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

We’re about to start year 3 of teaching in the pandemic, and it seems like an appropriate time to think back to March 2020 to think about what new things I’ve started to adjust to COVID-19 disruptions, what I stopped doing and what I plan to continue for 2022. And I’m more capable of being fully present with the people and tasks that need me.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

But his book, and that demo, are also attracting some pushback from teaching experts who think AI may have lots of uses in education, but that tutoring should be reserved for humans who can motivate and understand the students they work with. In fact, we said, ‘Hey, this could be really valuable in a teaching setting.’

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

– Sponsor of today's show, a differentiation tool How the Brain Learns by David Sousa Teaching Channel Math Video. She was named Outstanding Professor at UVa’s School of Education and Human Development in 2004 and received an All-University Teaching Award in 2008. Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson - Bio as Submitted.

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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?). Start your own blog.

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Futurum

JULY 13, 2022

Numbers and networks: how can we use mathematics to assess the resilience of global supply chains? At Brigham Young University in the US, Dr Zach Boyd is using his mathematical skills to determine how best to protect our supply chains. BUILDING MATHEMATICAL MODELS. FIELD OF RESEARCH: Mathematics. Published: July 13, 2022.

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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. In the original article, I gave a list of what computing skills mathematics majors should learn and when they should learn them. and then somewhat sparingly.

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Computing Education Research Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Elliot wanted us to think about “Who could use what we have to teach, but might not even enter our classroom?”. Forsythe argued (in a 1968 article) that the most valuable parts of a scientific or technical education were facility with natural language, mathematics, and computer science. Snow mostly blamed the humanities.

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STEM Education Guide

MARCH 9, 2023

It’s a curriculum that revolves around the idea of educating students in four particular disciplines; mathematics , technology, science, and engineering. As opposed to teaching these disciplines as discrete and separate subjects, STEM integrates them into a cohesive education paradigm that revolves around real-world applications.

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STEM Sport

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

In this case, they analyze calculus and how the approach around this difficult course has changed in recent years. Colleges Can Make Calculus a Gateway — Not a Gatekeeper — to STEM Fields. But neither will happen unless we address the fundamental gatekeeper to all STEM fields: undergraduate calculus.

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National Science Foundation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In its current form, school algebra serves as a gatekeeper to higher-level mathematics. Researchers and policy makers have pushed to open that gate—providing more students access to algebra, focusing in particular on those students historically denied access to higher-level mathematics. Berry & Larson, 2019; Levitt, 2019).

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STEM Everyday Podcast

OCTOBER 8, 2022

Libo Valencia is a mathematics educator in New York with over a dozen years of experience. Libo is a passionate teacher who strongly believes that understanding mathematics can help all students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills that can be utilized outside the classroom.

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STEM Education Works

MAY 6, 2024

In response, teaching techniques are being developed that can help in easing this student-based concern. Try hands-on, interactive projects like building scale models to apply geometry or calculus or using coding with a programming language to apply algebra and arithmetic.

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STEM Sport

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Educational Benefit: This hands-on project teaches the principles of aerodynamics, the workings of meteorological instruments, and data collection. The Mathematics of Leaf Drop Description: Students collect data on the rate of leaf drop from specific trees throughout the fall season.

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Futurum

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Kristin’s research spans a wide range of applications and theoretical domains, but the one thing they all have in common is temporal logic – that is, an unambiguous, mathematically precise way of describing and reasoning about systems that change over time. Failure is a wonderful thing – it teaches you more than success.

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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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The Maker Mom

JANUARY 17, 2024

World Scholars Academy World Scholars Academy hosts a two-week intensive mathematics course for kids 15-18, administered by a doctoral candidate from Cambridge, Evgeny Goncharov. They’ll enjoy ten classes over two weeks, where they gain a better understanding of proof-based mathematics. for a year of access.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JULY 5, 2021

They looked at 105 studies and found that there was a measurable amount of transfer between programming and situations requiring mathematical skills and spatial reasoning. We cannot predict that students learning programming will automatically get higher mathematics grades, for example. Those things transfer.

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STEM Education Guide

MARCH 8, 2023

It’s no secret that the exposure of students to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) can positively impact the future of the world and their futures. Mathematics and science are particularly crucial in STEM learning because engineering and technology are dependent on them. Is Computer Science Stem?

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The Maker Mom

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Children who participate in mathematics contests and competitions with other students their age can see some real benefits from their participation. Thanks to the cooperative nature of the study of mathematics, there are plenty of good-spirited contests for kids to join. It’s a chance for participants from all corners of the U.S.

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Jacobs Physics

APRIL 25, 2023

I've been repeatedly asked about the viability of teaching a combined section of APC and AP1. because I'd teach it as just AP Physics 1 until about March. But it's very difficult to go the other way around, for a student to use mathematical problem solving skills as a platform for developing strong conceptual understanding.

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Jacobs Physics

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The usefulness of graphical representations over straight-up equations and calculations for understanding energy concepts has been well established in physics teaching literature for years. I resisted teaching energy bar charts for nearly the first two decades of my career - mainly for point (3) above. Of course not!

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STEM Sport

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Topics such as physics and calculus deal with complex theories that can be difficult to grasp without proper guidance and real-world connections. The presence of advanced mathematics within STEM curricula can also serve as a significant barrier, deterring students who feel unequipped to handle a large amount of equations and formulas.

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