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CAREER: Patterns and Toolkits for Making Scientific Notation and Formal Proof Understandab — NSF Award to University of Pennsylvan

Some of the most powerful ideas in STEM are expressed in symbols, equations, and proofs. Unfortunately, these formal representations (i.e., formalisms) can be hard to understand, putting distance between millions of learners, practitioners, and scientists and the concepts that could support their work. The fact that sc

Award titleCAREER: Patterns and Toolkits for Making Scientific Notation and Formal Proof Understandab
Award ID2541577
AwardeeUniversity of Pennsylvania
CityPHILADELPHIA
StatePA
Amount obligated$400,807
Principal investigatorAndrew Head
ProgramHCC-Human-Centered Computing
Start date06/01/2026
AbstractSome of the most powerful ideas in STEM are expressed in symbols, equations, and proofs. Unfortunately, these formal representations (i.e., formalisms) can be hard to understand, putting distance between millions of learners, practitioners, and scientists and the concepts that could support their work. The fact that scientific texts are becoming increasingly digital provides new opportunities to help readers understand formalisms. Digital texts might let readers look at individual terms in equat
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