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. There are math requirements for those majors.

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JUNE 26, 2015

Most elementary age kids I know love math, but that changes when they matriculate to middle school. If you ask seventh and eighth graders what their hardest subject is, they’ll hands down tell you it’s math. US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams.

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Accelerate Learning

JANUARY 4, 2022

There’s a scene in the award-winning film A Beautiful Mind where the real-life math genius John Nash (played masterfully by Russell Crowe) stands before two massive screens full of cryptic numbers formulated by an enemy government and computes in his mind for hours until he demystifies the code.

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Cool Cat Teacher

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Lydia Gonzalez, author of “Bad at Math: Dismantling Harmful Beliefs That Hinder Equitable Mathematics Education,” talks about the societal norms that make it acceptable to be “bad at math” and how these beliefs can be detrimental to learning. She is the author of the book “Bad at Math?

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

It's going to be really good for writing, not so good for math, as one example. Try two weeks on a concept in mathematics, try this data set to cover the existing unit you already have on ecosystems in biology, teach the booms and busts of economics through data from the Federal Reserve. ChatGPT is trained on text data.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 9, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As part of 80 days of AI and HI, I've been testing ChatGPT to see what I think of it for math teachers. In this post, I'll talk about how math teachers can get totally accurate math problems (and answers) from ChatGPT. Math teachers hold on.

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Educators Technology

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is even so with subjects that are notoriously known for being dry and boring such as math. In this post, I share with you a wide variety of resources where you can search for and find fun math games to use with your students in and out of class. Cool Math games are student friendly and can be used in school and at home.

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JULY 26, 2016

Math teachers: This is for you. Here are some great suggestions from efriend and math afficionado, Matt Kim: Before I was ever a high school math teacher, I was always a hardcore technophile. 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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OCTOBER 19, 2016

From desktop printers to professional online services using high-grade printers, 3D technology is becoming a valuable creative tool in many courses of study beyond 3D computer design. Some of the most promising uses for 3D printing in education include: Math . Final Word. About the Author.

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Educators Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Math is a subject that can be difficult to teach, but with the proper tools, it can be made easier. In this post, I feature some of the best tools for tutoring math online and discuss some of the ways they can help teachers improve their students' math skills. These can be valuable assets in improving your math skills.

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AUGUST 10, 2016

C-STEM Studio is a California A-G approved curriculum and turn-key solution for teaching science, technology, engineering and mathematics through computing and robotics. ” In fact, the C-STEM Studio algebra curriculum is fully aligned with Common Core state standards in mathematics. Why Bother.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Soon, employees from one of the world’s most influential companies will arrive to teach these students about computer science: how to program computer games, how to work with data and how to found and run a business. They laugh and joke, listening to Beyoncé and Rihanna on built-in speakers.

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Scientix

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

CC-By provided by the author The Mathematics for Sustainable Development (MaSuD) Erasmus+ project combines two educational issues: math anxiety and raising awareness on environmental issues. Even students with high academic performance suffer of math anxiety. This context was, in fact, represented by the maths research workshop.

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JUNE 17, 2015

Tech-infused alternatives to granular education activities such as note-taking, math, and reading allow students with specialized needs to use their abilities (strengths) to work around their disabilities (challenges). Babakus–for mathematical functions. Signed Stories–for reading. Sonocent Audio Notetaker. Insider tips.

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STEM Education Works

JANUARY 27, 2025

A computer is the perfect example of coaxing matter to do the extraordinary. By manipulating the flow of electrons through different materials, computers are able to harness very simple physics to transform the world around us. Mathematics Math is all about numbers, and numbers are all around us.

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MARCH 11, 2015

Pi Day is an annual celebration commemorating the mathematical constant ? (pi). More humor posts: A Website That Cleans Your Computer for You. Holidays Humor Math' Pi Day is observed on March 14 since 3, 1, and 4 are the three most significant digits of ? in the decimal form. Wow was that difficult! Definition of ‘Teacher’.

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Stephen Wolfram

JANUARY 9, 2023

And indeed one of the great achievements of our civilization over the past several centuries has been to build up the paradigms of mathematics, the exact sciences—and, most importantly, now computation—and to create a tower of capabilities quite different from what pure human-like thinking can achieve. I think about things as a human.

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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. Act like you enjoy it so students will.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It builds on years of work in Digital and Media Literacy and Computational Thinking , including elements of computer science, ethics and additional areas beyond science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The skills and practices necessary to engage with AI are relevant to all disciplines.

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Stephen Wolfram

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Mathematics. And in our century there’s a new and yet more powerful one: computation. 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. And, yes, it’s computational. These are all ways to formalize the world.

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JUNE 19, 2017

ORIGO Stepping Stones (see my review here ), a comprehensive print and digital math program, has a variety of free math resources available for summer learning. Sign up for the next math webinar, like this one called The Number Line: More on Making the Most of Math Models. Zap Zap Math–Gamify any Math Curriculum.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

You see students taken away from more meaningful learning experiences and kind of plugged into computer screens where it's basically a flashcard. Holding the Door Open for Young Latinos Cindy Noriega is a third-year mathematics and computer science teacher in the Los Angeles area. That's why I'm also their cheerleader.”

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Accelerate Learning

JANUARY 4, 2022

Like humans, Multiplydons attend school and study math, but their curriculum naturally omits memorization of the multiplication tables and skips ahead to their application. When it comes to multiplication, they possess fact fluency , but not computational fluency.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Basic computer skills. Many of these are not easy for a student if they haven’t had instruction in using computers. It won’t surprise any adult when I say using an iPad isn’t the same as using a computer. Make sure students have practiced working at computers for extended periods. That’ll do it.

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Ellipsis Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Let’s talk about these frameworks and how they can be applied to teaching computer science. Put simply, if you are a math teacher, you need to know something about math! would all be considered mathematical content knowledge. would all be considered mathematical content knowledge. What is Content Knowledge?

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PCS Edventures

AUGUST 2, 2024

You didn’t need to be an expert in binary code to solve this problem, but you certainly had to think like a computer scientist! With STEAM, even your youngest learners can excel in computational thinking! Our hands-on programs for grades TK-K and 1-3 adapt fundamental computational thinking skills to meet learners at their level.

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MARCH 14, 2017

Pi Day is an annual celebration commemorating the mathematical constant π (pi). More humor posts: A Website That Cleans Your Computer for You. I posted this last year, but it’s still valid. One addition: new activities down toward the bottom of the post. Find your Pi Day- -where is your birthday in the endless numbers of Pi?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. A researcher at the University of Southern California, she has been working on AI-based professional development for math teachers for several years.

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Scientix

OCTOBER 31, 2023

2), written in mathematical language: Fig.1 2 (CC-BY) Most people try to solve the more captivating graphical problem, even if those who arrive at the correct solution faster use the appropriately reworked mathematical model (Fig. 1 (CC-BY) Fig.

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JULY 21, 2017

STEAM–Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math–is education’s new STEM. Use Classroom Architect as the canvas to redesign the classroom layout by dragging-and-dropping chairs, shelves, tables, computers, and more within a virtual classroom. I think you’ll like them. Classroom Architect. CSI Adventures.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Just one in 10 tech workers are Latino, and while Latino college students are choosing STEM fields in college more frequently , they earn only about 12 percent of undergraduate degrees awarded in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It was an unexpected opportunity to do an IT internship at Fannie Mae that changed her mentality.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

However, over the past few months, kids have largely been cooped up at home due to the impact of COVID-19; the lack of access to a tried-and-true schooling process and resources will result in young children missing out on foundational concepts in literature, math and science that prepare them for a lifetime of learning and working.

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Middle Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Without good math fact recall, many students become discouraged about building math knowledge and solving equations. Kathleen Palmieri uses song and movement to engage fifth graders in computation fluency. The post Use Music and Exercise to Teach Math Fluency first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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STEMe

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The one that some people dread the most: math class. For a variety of reasons, many people think that math sucks. Math can be useful in a variety of areas; even if math isn’t the main point of the job, chances are there are some applications. The last major math related career is computer programming/software engineering.

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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. Yesterday I got an email from a reader who had read this post called What should math majors know about computing? Mostly this is because of two things.

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ED Surge

JUNE 4, 2024

In it, Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, which has been building a tutoring tool with ChatGPT, sits watching his 15-year old son Imran learn a math concept from a talking version of the chatbot running on an iPad, which can also see what the student is typing on the tablet. It was making math errors. It could be used to cheat.

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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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