ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Some educators place a share of the blame on calculus courses, which can push out otherwise interested students. Meanwhile, the calculus instruction has to be slowed down enough that it’s not as effective for math people as it could be. “I
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.” And while women are the majority of workers in health-related jobs, as of last year, they’re less present in the physical sciences or, say, engineering.
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ED Surge
OCTOBER 3, 2024
A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. 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.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist : Since winning the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001, Carl Wieman has devoted the bulk of his energies to trying to improve teaching. Readers Respond: Does Fixing the Leaky STEM Pipeline Require Calculus To Adapt? Will the ideas catch on?
ED Surge
AUGUST 1, 2022
I took Calculus I, II, and III in high school at the local college, and when I enrolled at the University of Virginia, my courses included honors chemistry and physics for physics majors—although I did not major in physics. I grew up as a self-described math and science nerd.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Research shows that excessive homework leads to increased stress, physical health problems and a lack of balance in students' lives. That’s troubling because studies show that students who take AP classes and exams are twice as likely to report adverse physical and emotional health.
Stephen Wolfram
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
And it’s all based on ideas from our Physics Project —and on a fundamental correspondence between what’s happening at the lowest level in all physical processes and in expression evaluation. And this is where we can start making an analogy with physics. And now there’s a deep analogy to physics.
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