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What STEM Students Need to Know
Wall Street Journal ^
| 12-18-2017
| Eric Freeman and David Gelernter
Posted on 12/19/2017 2:44:20 PM PST by RicocheT
"The U.S. is about to spend a small fortune on teaching science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM....Thats a good investment in theory, but the American education system is in no position to make the most of it."
"...Students should reach college prepared to take serious science and engineering courses, yet many dont. Our math teaching is half a century out of date, and without math there is no STEM. Computer science builds on electronics and discrete mathematics, as opposed to the classical type leading to calculus."
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: education; stem
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To: CottonBall
Totally agree...makes things fun!
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DennisR
To: CottonBall
Partner, I really had a good instrument engineer that I worked with and he was like a father to me since my father had also gone and lived through the Great Depression and WWII. He told me that the main reason he got into Electrical Engineering and Mathematics is that the formulas for solving problems do not change. He told me to let that sink in for a few days. He was 100% correct and I was glad to tell him he was 100% correct.
I told my wife that you can not change formulas in Mathematics since they have been proven to be exactly correct and the same goes for engineering formulas.
I left my wife speechless for once. The husband gets to win an argument once in a long while.
I love your line about the book of Hebrews.
To: Karliner
Partner, like someone told me a long time ago that once a formula has been proven mathematically to be true then you can take it to bank or you can it as Gospel Truth.
A lot of these formulas in mathematics have all been proven to be correct.
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