The Raspberry Pi Foundation and Stephen Wolfram have today announced that they are releasing a bundle of Wolfram Language and Mathematica for the Raspberry Pi mini computer.
The announcement was made at the CBM education summit in New York where the two parties announced the partnership to bundle a free copy of Mathematica and the Wolfram Language into future Raspbian images.
The Raspberry Pi foundation explained : “We believe this will make the Pi a first-class platform for teaching CBM techniques to children of all ages”
Conrad Wolfram explained : “Coders will be able to use the power of Mathematica’s maths out of the box, not only enriching what they can do but also showing off the power and importance of maths.”
For more information on the new Mathematica and the Wolfram Language bundle for Raspberry Pi jump over to the Wolfram website for details.
“The importance of math to jobs, society, and thinking has exploded over the last few decades. Meanwhile, math education is in worldwide crisis—diverging more and more from what’s required by countries, industry, further education… and students.
Computers are key to bridging this chasm: only when they do the calculating is math applicable to hard questions across many contexts. Real-life math has been transformed by computer-based calculation; now mainstream math education needs this fundamental change too.
computerbasedmath.org is the project to perform this reset. We’re building a completely new math curriculum with computer-based computation at its heart, while campaigning at all levels to redefine math education away from historical hand-calculating techniques and toward real-life problem-solving situations that drive high-concept math understanding and experience.”
Source: Raspberry Pi
