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Teaching kids real math with computers

Conrad Wolfram · TED

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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.

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDGlobal 2010
Speaker
Conrad Wolfram
Year
2010
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Computer science, Teaching and learning
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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