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Teachers Believe That AI Is Here to Stay in Education. How It Should Be Taught Is Debatable.

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Zarek Drozda, director of the nonprofit Data Science for Everyone, says his organization has seen interest in offering AI and data science coursework increase among school districts, with the number of states launching data initiatives increasing from one to 29 over the past four years.

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The Role of Mathematics in Education

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Finance and Economics: The Art of Numbers In the realms of finance and economics, mathematics is the brush with which professionals paint the picture of the market’s future. Mathematics: The Language of Computer Science Theoretical Foundations At the heart of computer science lies a rich tapestry of mathematical concepts.

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8 Ways to Teach Financial Literacy

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Look at the FutureSmart Course Free from EVERFI Length of course: 7 modules taking 25 minutes each Grades: 6-8 Languages: English/Spanish Lesson Overview (PDF) Resource #3: SmartEconomics for Middle Schoolers SmartEconomics introduces middle schoolers to understand economics, market forces that impact consumer goods, and key economic concepts.

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What Schools Miss When They’re Missing Relationship Data

ED Surge

Earlier this month, a new study in Nature revealed a key predictor of economic mobility: connectedness. The analysis also yielded a new species of school-level data, charting the degree of economic connectedness within individual high schools and colleges across the country.

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How scientists learn computing and use LLMs to program: Computing education for scientists and for democracy

Computing Education Research Blog

She had a paper in Harvard Data Science Review last year on how scientists learn computational methods, In the Academy, Data Science Is Lonely: Barriers to Adopting Data Science Methods for Scientific Research. They talk together about their science, but not really about code.

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Data Science is Needed in the Classroom

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Though data science may seem like a popular catchphrase in tech, it’s much more than that. Data science is being used across many industries and is a skill that is rapidly expanding to every career field. What is Data Science. How is Data Science Being Used.

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Everyday Equitable Data Literacy is Best in Social Studies, far more than in STEM

Computing Education Research Blog

We want them to be able to understand, critique, and argue with data, both visualizations and tables. That’s not the first question that most data scientists ask about data. Most of us don’t read Science or Nature. If you want the knowledge to transfer, teach it in the context that you want to transfer.

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