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'Stop Teaching Calculating, Start Learning Maths' - Conrad Wolfram WISE 2012 Special Address

858 views · Published 30 July 2013 · 26:14 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: WISE Channel · 2013 · Education

"Stop teaching calculating, start learning maths" - Conrad Wolfram on how re-conceptualized maths in education can step-up to real-world needs.

The importance of maths to jobs, society and thinking has exploded over the last few decades. Meanwhile, maths education fails to match-up. Why has this chasm opened up? Computers are central: when they do the calculating, people work on harder questions, try more concepts, and play with a multitude of new ideas. Conrad Wolfram explained why this fundamental shift is needed in education, and described the major project he's founded to build a dramatically new, problem-centric, computer-based maths curriculum. He asked which country could adopt a computer-based approach first, and leapfrog others in STEM.

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'Stop Teaching Calculating, Start Learning Maths' - Conrad Wolfram WISE 2012 Special Address

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