Support The Right Advanced Mathematics Education, Don't Cut It Off

The UK government has announced cuts to the Advanced Mathematics Support Programme that provides support for promising mathematicians to make them excel. Many in the UK maths and education community are up in arms, arguing that that this will cut off the very AI innovation Prime Minister Keir Starmer says we most need. Is it an ideological "anti-elitist" cut, or a failure to understand the connection between maths and AI? Or are they planning to switch the funding to back a modern, advanced, computer-based maths alternative?

Conrad Wolfram11 February 2025Maths Education, Advanced Mathematics Support Programme, Further Maths, A-level maths, computer-based math, Computational Thinking, Maths CurriculumComment

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Still in CBM Denial as Computers Take Over Another Step of the Maths Process?

I characterise the computational or maths process as 4 step. (If you haven’t come across this central theme of The Math(s) Fix before, here’s a quick description). And the central problem with our mainstream maths education has been the failure to recognise that step 3—compute—has been almost completely taken over by computers in real life…and that totally changes the what, when and how.

Conrad Wolfram25 May 2023Maths Education, Maths Curriculum, ChatGPT, ChatGPT Maths, computer-based math, Maths, Math Education, math curriculum Comment

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