Finally, an Online Advising Model That Actually Works | Resources - Wiley Education Services

Many advisors who work on campus know a student is struggling before they say a word, as Wiley Education Services reports now.

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After all, the student’s expression and body language can reveal their frustration and anxiety.

But online advising is different. Advisors often work with online students by phone, email, or text — formats that don’t offer the same cues as in-person advising. Therefore, online advisors must use different tactics to discern a student’s mental state or desire for help.Even so, many colleges base online advising on their campus-based practices...Julie Delich, Vice President of Retention and Student Support Services at Wiley Education Services, led the development of OLAM to give online students the support they have sorely lacked. Instead of recycling tactics used on campus, it’s custom-made for the online learning experience. That includes accounting for how students think and feel about online coursework...

To preview how Wiley helps partners and learners take the smart route to success, download our free e-book, The Power of Flexible Partnership. Plus, explore our other resources that delve into retention efforts, including an infographic about personalizing services for millennials and Gen Xers in online programs.

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A message from the end of a PhD | Research - EuroScientist

Gabriel Matos Rodrigues, PhD student in Bernard S. Lopez's lab at Université de Paris narrates his experience to move from a PhD to the research world, highlighting values such as empathy and kindness.

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Pursuing a scientific career almost inevitably means moving and leaving the ones you love for at least a certain amount of time. In my case, this decision started during college when I moved from my hometown near São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro. Since I made this decision 10 years ago, staying far from my loved ones has become part of a life style. For a student from a simple upbringing in Brazil, like myself, having the opportunity of studying abroad is the utmost privilege. I have been given the chance to perform a good part of my academic formation in prestigious research institutes in Europe under the supervision of brilliant advisors. This trajectory has come with many challenges and, nowadays, as I look back in time, I realize how empathy and kindness have been essential during this process.

I wrote a first draft for a PhD scholarship project one week after my mother passed away. By the time, working on this application was a way to cope with the mourning process and to know that life would move forward. However, I was stressed about it as I wanted to send a good project to my future advisor. Although the application was submitted in time, the project was not accepted, and I pursued my PhD under the supervision of another advisor. Less than a year later, I moved to France to start my PhD...

... I hope that I can help create a new culture in which kindness and empathy are the building blocks of the resilience we need to endure the always existing challenges of the academic career.

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Recommended book by Ofer Gal, University of Sydney | Books - Cambridge University Press

The Origins of Modern Science is the first synthetic account of the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution in many decades by Ofer Gal, University of Sydney.

The Origins of Modern Science:
From Antiquity to the Scientific Revolution

Providing readers of all backgrounds and students of all disciplines with the tools to study science like a historian, Ofer Gal covers everything from Pythagorean mathematics to Newton's Principia, through Islamic medicine, medieval architecture, global commerce and magic. Richly illustrated throughout, scientific reasoning and practices are introduced in accessible and engaging ways with an emphasis on the complex relationships between institutions, beliefs and political structures and practices. Readers gain valuable new insights into the role that science plays both in history and in the world today, placing the crucial challenges to science and technology of our time within their historical and cultural context. 

• Readers are introduced to scientific reasoning and practices in accessible and engaging ways
• Non-humanities students are provided with the tools to understand science through a historical lens
• Readers gain new insights into the complex relations between institutions, beliefs and political structures and practices
  

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A Formula for Funny: The Surprisingly Smart Humor of The Simpsons | Mathematics - CALIFORNIA

Dano Nissen ’18, freelance journalist reports, Three Berkeley alumni ponder the connections between advanced scholarship and comedy writing.

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FOR CENTURIES, FERMAT’S LAST THEOREM defied mathematicians to prove that there are, in fact, no natural numbers for x, y and z that can satisfy the equation xⁿ+yⁿ=zⁿ when n is greater than 2. Countless great minds tried and failed, until 1995, when mathematician Andrew Wiles, after years of monk-like devotion, provided the undisputed proof once and for all. 

That is, until he was seemingly proved wrong, a few years later, by none other than Homer Simpson, whose only monk-like devotion is to doughnuts. 

n an episode of The Simpsons called “The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace,” Homer, dreaming of becoming an inventor, toils away in his basement, scrawling on the chalkboard: 3987¹²+4365¹²=4472¹²—an equation that, per M. Fermat, should not, cannot exist.

And in fact, it doesn’t. Homer’s math was off. Not by much, but still. D’oh!...

The problem is a variation of a classic pancake combinatorial problem first put forth by the mathematician Jacob Goodman, under the pseudonym Harry Dweighter. As in “harried waiter,” get it?'.

Turns out, math is kinda funny—and so are philosophy and computer science, at least judging by the fact that three Cal alumni with advanced degrees in those subjects—including Cohen, J. Stewart Burns, and Eric Kaplan—have logged long, impressive careers writing for The Simpsons and Futurama, the Matt Groening franchises that practically redefined American humor...

In the resulting episode, Professor Farnsworth works out Keeler’s theorem on screen. Says Cohen, “I believe this is, in all likelihood, the only time in history that a mathematical theorem has served in such a heroic role in a TV comedy.” '

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Chaitin’s Discovery of a Way of Describing True Randomness | Mathematics - Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence

He found that concepts from computer programming worked well because, if the data is not random, the program should be smaller than the data.

In this week’s podcast, “The Chaitin Interview II: Defining Randomness,” Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks interviewed mathematician and computer scientist Gregory Chaitin on randomness. It’s a subject on which Chaitin has thought deeply since his teenage years (!), when he published a journal paper on the subject. How do we measure randomness?

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Beginners Guide to Probability and Statistics for Data Science | Statistical Analysis - Medium

Ibukun Ogunnaike, Python - Data Science writes, Ever wondered why learning and understanding mathematical concepts like Probability and Statistics is important for a Data scientist?

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Ever wondered why learning and understanding mathematical concepts like Probability and Statistics is important for a Data scientist?

A lot of Data science work is usually perceived to be just all about programming, but almost everything that data scientists do, involves working with statistics and making predictions. When predictions are made, that is probability and this is the foundation for even the most advanced predictive models.

Most Machine learning and Deep Learning models use probability concepts internally. If you understand Probability theory then your understanding of Machine Learning and Deep learning will be grounded. So in this article I will help you understand some basic concepts in probability and statistics...

...With this article, I have attempted to bring explain basic but important mathematical concepts that would aid your knowledge of data science and machine learning.

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Is Mathematics Difficult? Just practice, and you will find it easier | Opinion & Editorial - Greater Kashmir

Just practice, and you will find it easier, says the author, a freelancer, having Electrical Engineering from IUST Awantipora.

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On February 10 of this year, my article was published in this esteemed daily under the title “Calculus Phobia” after that I received an email from a student, who recently passed out his 10th  class examination. The student expressed a desire to opt for Non-Medical stream, however, he has a concern; though he likes mathematics, sometimes it gives jitters to him, and he wants to get a solution to overcome this fear. In response I wrote to him that I was also an average student in Mathematics till my class 10th, as I was not giving more time and not concentrating on the subject, but only watching and playing cricket. And after sometime when I faced some complex problems in 11th class, I realized that I have to shun the previous practice and get more concentrated on the subject. I practiced it, cleared my doubts, and after a few months, I got the confidence that not only I can clear my subject, but can help others to solve the questions.

I have experienced that whenever students face a mathematical problem their hands get sweaty, which is a sign of anxiety. Some students get worried and fail to concentrate on the subject, which they feel that it is becoming a cause of embarrassment. Researchers have found that 20% of the student population is suffering from this problem. Some psychologists even consider it an under-diagnosed condition.

Mathematics Anxiety doesn’t mean that the student is bad enough to take maths as his subject. 

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Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian influential Mathematician who dreamt of being a novelist, was struck by the spell of Mathematics; she later went on to win the “Fields Medal”, the highest award in Mathematics. She too felt unconfident and lost interest in mathematics, as her middle school class teacher didn’t find him so intelligent.

...If students are not comfortable in mathematics, then it may impact their quantitative analysis, logical reasoning, and aptitude part which are the part of all job oriented competitive examinations. 

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140-year-old math book contains surreal remnants of old Indonesia | Culture - Mashable SE Asia

In a collection of photos, accompanied by a detailed description of his findings, Khir Johari gives us a peek into what life was like back in Dutch-ruled Indonesia, all portrayed in a series of elementary-level math questions by Danial Martinus. 

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Titled '', meaning 'Some Counting Problems' in English, the book is written in an antiquated Dutch-style Indonesian, incorporating the use of many Dutch-specific letters like 'oe' and 'j', the latter pronounced like the letter 'y'.

"No, it is not about numbers. This book tells us more about the everyday man, the everyday life of people at a different point in time. It gives us an all-round view of the society, culture, and people," Johari says in his Facebook post.

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How to Memorize 100 digits of Pi | Mathematics - Medium

Happy Pi Day friends 🎉 writes Brett Berry published in Math Hacks.

Photo: How to Memorize 100 Digits of Pi (as easy as pie 🥧)

It’s finally the one day of the year where math gets some love instead of the shade it gets the other 364 days! Feeling all the warm fuzzies about math makes March 14th one of my most favorite days of the year!

In celebration of Pi Day, I’m going to teach you a little pi memory trick that, for me, made memorizing the first 100 digits of pi easier than baking my Pi Day Pie 😂 I wish I were kidding but it’s true. It took me just over a day to memorize 100 digits of pi, and 4 days to bake my beautiful pi day pie! I guess some of us are better at the whiteboard than in the kitchen!

Whether you’re memorizing pi for an epic competition, a personal challenge, or just to honor our beloved mathematics here’s how to do it 

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The pandemic hasn’t stopped Pi Day celebrations on 3/14, but it has made these activities virtual | Pi Day - DesignNews

This year, Pi Day is going virtual, inform Rob Spiegel, senior editor at Electronic News and Ecommerce Business.

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That may be a good thing if you’re not physically close to San Francisco or Boston where Pi Day has traditionally been celebrated with pie and math contests.

First, here’s a description of Pi Day:

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