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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

JANUARY 17, 2023

It was from his dean, who said that the department had inspected their freshman calculus course, “Calculus for Life Sciences.” This ultimately led to a new introductory life sciences math course, Mathematics for Life Sciences (the LS 30 series). The traditional calculus coursework, to people like Garfinkel, is totally outdated.

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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.

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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. Technology in the classroom changed from “nice to have” to “must have”. 1:1 became a reality.

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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.

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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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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. Technology in the classroom changed from ‘nice to have’ to ‘must have’.

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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

MAY 28, 2024

That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. Julie Lynem’s son had taken algebra in eighth grade, but hadn’t comprehended some of the core concepts.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

So often we've embraced the progressive technology vision of education that says you need to differentiate, you need to personalize,” Hughes says. 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

MARCH 20, 2024

Youngpradit: The equity concern is more than the idea of a burgeoning AI divide in terms of access to the internet, devices and even the people who can teach students about this technology. Brian Johnsrud Johnson: It will be transformative, but I would actually flip that question back to the teams developing this technology.

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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. 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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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.

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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. It’s given her severe anxiety. She doesn’t want to go to class at all. It feels pointless.

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MARCH 10, 2017

STEM is the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Technology includes the iPads toddlers play on, the smartphones we use to guide our days, the apps that turn our lights on and off–or start our car. When you talk about math, science, engineering, or technology, add excitement to your voice.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In ten days’ time, we had to reinvent college-level mathematics instruction on a large scale—more than 100 sections of courses and nearly 3000 students—with no playbook. For example, in Fall 2020, I decided to remove four big topics from my Calculus class, because I felt the time would be better spent going deep on the other things.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

That question has been in the air since ChatGPT was released in late 2022, and since then many developers have experimented with using the latest generative AI technology as a tutor. I've always been fascinated by, ‘What could we learn potentially from technology?’ Should AI chatbots be used as tutors? Why were you drawn to that area?

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STEM Education Guide

APRIL 15, 2022

A well-organized world without the use of mathematics is unimaginable. Therefore, it’s no surprise that a wealth of mathematical branches exists in the world today. Nowadays, a mathematics study from the basics to advanced levels that contribute to technology, medicine, engineering, and more. What Is Mathematics?

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In the original article, I gave a list of what computing skills mathematics majors should learn and when they should learn them. If anything, over the past seven years, my feelings about the centrality of computing in the mathematics major have gotten even more entrenched. Instead, bring it in and teach students how to use it well.

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PCS Edventures

MARCH 4, 2020

Whether you agree with the theory that mathematics exists for humans to discover or that it is a man-made tool, numeric systems designed to measure the world around us serve as the foundation for scientific and technological advancement. Calculus , which calculates rates of change and infinites. What is Math?

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JULY 26, 2016

As long as I can remember, technology has been one of those things that have caught my interest no matter what my current job title was at that time. It really is an exciting time for technology in education and the tools available to us to use today in our math classes is no exception.

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STEM Education Guide

MARCH 9, 2023

Recently, five of the eight Ivy League universities have reclassified their economics degrees from social science to science, technology, math, and engineering (STEM). It’s a curriculum that revolves around the idea of educating students in four particular disciplines; mathematics , technology, science, and engineering.

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Stephen Wolfram

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Mathematics. 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. But in the 1600s came the idea of modeling things with mathematical formulas—in which time enters, but basically just as a coordinate value. But what about AIs?

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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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Computing Education Research Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

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. The Danish computing curriculum explicitly includes informing students about the risks of technology in society. It was an amazing event.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2023

I’ve been tracking neural net technology for a long time (about 43 years, actually). Many centuries ago, when mathematical notation was invented, it provided for the first time a streamlined medium in which to “think mathematically” about things. It happened to us with Wolfram|Alpha back in 2009.

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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. Geogebra: geogebra.org.

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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. FASCINATING FORMAL METHODS. WHERE WILL KRISTIN‘S RESEARCH LEAD TO IN THE FUTURE?

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Stephen Wolfram

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

And—it should be said at the outset—we’re still only at the very beginning of nailing down those technical details and setting up the difficult mathematics and formalism they involve.) Mathematically this can be thought of as being like decomposing the ruliad structure in terms of fibrations and foliations.). The View from Mathematics.

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Stephen Wolfram

JUNE 28, 2023

The Leading Edge of 2023 Technology … and Beyond Today we’re launching Version 13.3 This is all very new technology, so we don’t yet know what patterns of usage will work best. Line, Surface and Contour Integration “Find the integral of the function ” is a typical core thing one wants to do in calculus. And in Version 13.3

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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

Technology has made learning math virtually a snap, and the availability of online math classes means that every child can learn this valuable skill. 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.

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Futurum

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Biomedical engineering lies at the heart of medical technology, where researchers collaborate with healthcare practitioners to develop new and innovative devices that can improve the lives of patients. Biomedical engineers aim to solve health problems by developing new technologies for clinical use. “As WHAT NEXT? “My

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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. Technology ranges from design and computer programming (coding) to analytics. Granted, engineering and technology might seem thrilling.

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STEMe

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The stock market is the crown jewel in the capitalist crown—being able to trade pieces of ownership in companies, also known as stocks, in order to fund further growth has increased competition, advanced technology, and has increased the overall wealth in our society today. But how does the stock market really work? Shaw, who founded D.E.

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Then we might make a mathematical guess, like that perhaps we should use a straight line as a model: We could pick different straight lines. It’s just something that’s mathematically simple, and we’re used to the fact that lots of data we measure turns out to be well fit by mathematically simple things.

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