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Tyler DeWitt: Hey science teachers -- make it fun | TED Talk | TED.com - 0 views
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"High school science teacher Tyler DeWitt was ecstatic about his new lesson plan on bacteria (how cool!) - and devastated when his students hated it. The problem was the textbook: it was impossible to understand. He delivers a rousing call for science teachers to ditch the jargon and extreme precision, and instead make science sing through stories and demonstrations."
Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers | TED Talk | TED.com - 0 views
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"From rockets to stock markets, many of humanity's most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach - calculation by hand - isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: teaching kids math through computer programming."