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Readers Respond: Does Fixing the Leaky STEM Pipeline Require Calculus To Adapt?

ED Surge

In MBA school it was only used in an economics course. In undergrad, when I switched out of music, I picked a new major by looking for something that I was interested in studying and didn't require calculus or organic chemistry. Students learn better from a straightforward treatment of the mathematical essence.” That was it.

Calculus 274
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Best Open Access Journals and Scholarly Articles for Research Students

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SpringerOpen SpringerOpen features research a wide variety of peer-reviewed research articles spanning different disciplines including social sciences, humanities, science, technology, medicine, economics, biomedicine, chemistry, computer science, psychology, and many more.

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Concrete change: the innovative chemistry of sustainable cement

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Concrete change: the innovative chemistry of sustainable cement Published: The global cement industry is gigantic, so finding ways to reduce its impact on the climate is essential for a sustainable future. The chemistry of cement It is the use of resources, especially raw materials, that forms the current focus of Theo’s research.

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Five Most Productive Years: What Happened and What’s Next

Stephen Wolfram

Pleasantly enough, given our framework, many modern areas of mathematical physics seemed to fit right in.) I had realized that one of the places the ideas of the Physics Project should apply was to the foundations of mathematics, and to metamathematics. And now the responsibility had fallen on us to do this.

Physics 110
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From field to lab: the changing nature of archaeology

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In these spaces you had Indigenous communities, European settlers, indentured servants, and enslaved Africans all engaged in a changing socio-economic landscape.” We bring together students from backgrounds in history, anthropology, archaeology, chemistry and museum studies to work collaboratively on the project,” he says.

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Living in a material world: the importance of materials science and engineering

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Expertise in physics and chemistry is needed to explore material properties, while engineering skills are needed to manufacture and test materials. This involves not only controlling the surface chemistry of polymers, but also developing polymers from renewable resources such as plant oils instead of petroleum. STRUCTURE AND SCALE.

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Modelling minds: can computers mimic human intelligence?

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For example, computers can perform thousands of calculations per second, meaning they can solve some mathematical problems far more quickly and accurately than humans. A mathematical expression, or function, transforms an input to an output. And computers have beaten human world champions at games of chess and go.

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