The Math(s) Fix

The Math(s) Fix: An Education Blueprint for the AI Age is a 2020 book by British technologist and entrepreneur Conrad Wolfram. It argues for a fundamental shift in the way mathematics education is taught in schools, advocating for a curriculum that emphasizes a computational education and computer-based mathematics education for 21st-century problem-solving skills with computers in the classroom, rather than manual handwritten calculation techniques.

Sections

Part I: The Problem

• Maths v. Maths
• Why Should Everyone Learn Maths?
• Maths and Computation in Today's World
• The 4-Step Maths/Computational Thinking Process
• Hand Calculating: Not the Essence of Maths

Part II: The Fix

• "Thinking" Outcomes
• Defining the Core Computational Subject
• New Subject, New Pedagogy?
• What to Deliver? How to Build It?

Part III: Achieving Change Objections to Computer-Based Core Computational Learning

• Roadmap for Change
• The Beginning of the Story
• Is Computation for Everything?
• What's Surprised Me on This Journey So Far
• Call to Action

See also

• Comparison of software calculators
• Comparison of TeX editors
• Computational thinking
• List of graphing software
• List of mathematical art software
• List of mathematical software
• List of numerical analysis programming languages
• List of numerical-analysis software
• List of numerical libraries
• List of open-source software for mathematics
• Mathematical modeling and simulations
• Mathematical notation
• Mathematical visualization
• MathOverflow
• Music and mathematics
• STEM
• Stephen Wolfram
• Wolfram Language
• Wolfram Mathematica
• Wolfram Research

External links

• computerbasedmath.org/
• Official page on Wolfram.com
• Conrad Wolfram TED Talk

References