You may be wondering, If you’re a math teacher, how can we fix the problem without getting fired? A computer-based maths curriculum should be built around real-world requirements such as data science, information theory and modeling.” Wolfram argues for a new core computational subject that “is built on actual problems solved by real people in the real world with today's technology. Rather than being judged, after years of study, by one grade or mark based on a few hours of exams, you carry with you a complete computational portfolio (like an art portfolio) of your work, alongside a computable dataset representing all your educational achievements.” Instead of racking up grades and test scores based on worksheets of hand calculation, Wolframs see math education as real world learning, “open ended projects, reports, presentations, real-time meetings, decision-taking.are all represented.and all provide data for assessment. For example, given the power to compute, it’s quite possible to introduce 10-year-olds to the idea of rate of change (a derivative) and area under the curve (an integral) without teaching the steps of calculation. Instead, argues Wolfram, we should introduce increasingly complex problems.
In every STEM field, the order of introduction has been driven by the complexity of the calculation. The universally accepted approach to teaching mathematics is driven by assessment of abilities to perform calculation-and it is simply not relevant to any field today.
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