Questions tagged [education]
Questions about the use of Mathematica/WL in education and/or about teaching Mathematica, or learning it.
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What is the best Mathematica tutorial for young people?
As Conrad Wolfram said at the TED conference, in the future kids should focus more on new technology. Computers compute better than humans, so we should focus more on thinking and getting the ...
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Analogies to Help New Users
In many of the classes that I teach, I require students to learn the basics of Mathematica which we use throughout the semester to do computations and to submit homeworks (in notebook form). Some ...
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Do you know of any web-based university course that is entirely Mathematica based?
Does anybody known of a web-based university course entirely built with Mathematica? I mean one where the whole course (lectures/labs/exams) is presented in Mathematica FrontEnd form.
My point is ...
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Learning Resources for Data Science in the Wolfram Language
I'm delivering an upcoming course on Data Science with the programming/analysis done predominantly in the Wolfram Language. I created the following table to leverage students' familiarity with Lists ...
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How to Create Kapitza's Pendulum?
Hi, I have never worked on a project of this kind before. I am having difficulty using Kapitza's Pendulum (inverted pendulum with moving vertical base).
It is hard for me to make the model equations, ...
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Symbol of system of equations
I'm wondering if there is a way to use the symbol (the left curly bracket) of a system of equations. So far I found only the following "symbol":
I need to remove the two conditions.
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Making an application based on user input
I purchased Mathematica a few days ago, and although I am a mathematician, my programming and Mathematica knowledge is close to zero. So please help and point me to some resources for the following ...
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Some way to identify the source of a notebook file?
Is there a way to tell where a Mathematica file came from, meaning some type of machine ID (yes, I know about $MachineID). I want to be able to identify students ...
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How do I recursively calculate this equation and generate a list of iteration?
How do I write a recursive equation to compute a list of answers?
I tried NestList, but it didn't work.
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Perform BFS for the 8-puzzle
I've tried to implement Breadth First Search algorithm in MMA, to attempt to solve the 8-puzzle game. But in some cases, I ran out of memory, but on other cases it solves without problem.
Here is the ...
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RSA encryption/decryption with signed message
I was going through a book with some tasks that you can work with mathematica on, and I found this particular task interesting:
Proffesor Alice has sent an assignment to Bob, one of her students. To ...
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Finding all partitions (2 elements per subset) of a set composed of an even number of elements
I'd like to find all the partitions (each subset of a partition should contain 2 elements) of a set composed by an even number of elements. For example, given $A=\lbrace 1,2,3,4,5,6 \rbrace$, I'd like ...
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What is a good book to learn mathematics with Mathematica? [duplicate]
I'd like to review first-year college math, and above, while learning Mathematica alongside it. All the books I've looked at that claim to teach some version of math with Mathematica go though two or ...
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What are quick references to mathematica that fit my needs? [duplicate]
I have read this question and this one but I think mine is different because they're searching for a way to learn mathematica comprehensively and basically but I'm searching for just some quick way ...
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Solving problem using recursive functions
Attached below is a question posed by the Canadian Mathematical Society, and I have my code and answer. Is there a better way of writing the code, and will the answer be different as a result?
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Plotting issues with n-root function
I've been getting issues with plotting a function I've written to calculate the maximum height a floating body can float in a polytrope atmosphere dependant on a weight, here is the function;
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Cloud-based random question generator
Is there any way to create a micro site that generates a random question type and keeps the same question until the right answer has been inputted? I tried
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Integral of $1/x$ with x real in Mathematica [duplicate]
I'd like to get:
$$\int \frac{1}{x} dx = \log |x|$$
in Mathematica. I don't know how impose that $x$ is real. If I run:
Integrate[1/x,x]
Mathematica gives me $\...
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