Computer-Based Math

Computer-Based Math is an educational project started by Conrad Wolfram in 2010[1][2][3][4] to promote the idea that mathematics education should make the greatest possible use of computers for performing computation leaving students to concentrate on the application and interpretation of mathematical techniques.[5] Wolfram also argues that computers are the basis of doing math in the real world and that education should reflect that [6] and that programming should be taught as part of math education.[7]

Wolfram contends that this approach is fundamentally different from most of the use of computers in the math classroom,[8] whose role is to help to teach students to perform hand-calculations, rather than to perform those computations and is also distinct from delivery tools such as E-learning systems.

In 2010 the website www.computerbasedmath.org was set up to start developing a new curriculum and interactive digital learning materials to support it. It holds an annual conference.

In Feb 2013, Estonia announced that it would be piloting a Computer Based Math developed statistics course[9][10][11] in cooperation with the University of Tartu.[12]

UNICEF supported the third Computer Based Math Education Summit in New York, in 2013.[13]

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References

  1. ↑ We need to base maths lessons on computers The Telegraph, 03 Dec 2009
  2. ↑ Revival Plan The New Indian Express
  3. ↑ Computers do it better, Times Higher Education Supplement, 30 March 2012
  4. ↑ Closing the gap between modern life and the math curriculum New York Times, 10 Feb 2013
  5. ↑ Reinventing Math for the Computational Knowledge Economy Big Think, Jan 2013
  6. ↑ Times Educational Supplement
  7. ↑ ICT teaching upgrade expected in 2014 The Guardian, 20 Aug 2012
  8. ↑ Teaching kids real math with computers TED 2010
  9. ↑ Estonian Schools to Teach Computer-Based Math Wall Street Journal, 11 Feb 2013
  10. ↑ Math Rebels Invade Estonia With Computerized Education Wired, 12 Feb 2013
  11. ↑ Estonia Chosen as Testing Ground for Math Education Experiment Estonian Public Broadcasting News
  12. ↑ Estonian, British experts team up to develop computer-based math education Postimees, 13 Feb 2013.
  13. ↑ UNICEF and Computerbasedmath.org Announce Major Summit to Reconceptualize Math Education Worldwide unicefstories.org