Computer-Based Maths: How to Fix Maths Education

Achieving Computational Literacy for Everyone

Join the change for a fundamentally renewed maths education to power our societies for the AI age, as proposed in Conrad Wolfram's The Math(s) Fix.

This is the first worldwide conference to bring together thought leaders, practitioners, employers and policymakers in mapping out a path to achieving widespread computational literacy and advanced computational thinking across the world.

Because this is online, participants will be from many countries, organisations and viewpoints.

By participating, attendees will:

Help to make widespread computational literacy a reality.
We have a fundamentally new proposal for a core computational subject. Now is the time to come together, build a curriculum that assumes that computers exist and empower society for the AI age.
Interact with thought leaders, policymakers and frontline educators.
Get a fresh perspective on maths coding and computational thinking. Hear from CBM and other thought leaders—the people who can make the change from the top down and the people making it happen from the ground up.
Have the opportunity to talk to, question and cross-examine Conrad Wolfram and the Computer-Based Maths team.
Want to know more about CBM? Disagree with something in The Math(s) Fix? Want to know how to start with CBM? Here's your chance!

This is the Only Conference To:

Explore the gulf between mainstream mathematics education and real-world, required competencies.
Set out a completely alternative vision for a core computational school subject to fix the problem and seed more general reformation of education for the AI age.
Outline a solution that can be easily adopted either as a replacement for, or in addition to, the current subject of mathematics.
Unite the education of mathematics, coding and data science, and bring coherence to the way forward.

Who Should Attend

The Math(s) Fix Conference is a unique opportunity for stakeholders in the future of education to come together, share ideas and take action to achieve widespread computational literacy. The conference will be of particular interest to:

Education Policymakers

Prepare students with the essential computational thinking skills they'll need for work and life in the AI age.

Private and Public Sector Employers

Understand how high-powered computation can impact all levels and areas of your organisation to optimize efficiency through smarter decision making.

Colleges and Universities

Learn how course-relevant computational thinking prepares students with the right skills for their studies and the workplace.

Schools and Teachers

Anchor computation across the curriculum to foster modern-day skills in tomorrow's workforce.

Individuals

Whether you are self-employed, homeschooled or just enjoy learning, develop your skills and knowledge in computational thinking.

All in all, I highly recommended [The Math(s) Fix] to anyone with any sort of vested interest in computational mathematics, which includes everyone on the planet.

—Steven Eric Hardwick

Conrad Wolfram is one of the most important mathematical thinkers of our time. This book is packed with incredible ideas that could fundamentally change the mathematics experience for students across the world. The vision Conrad puts forward will allow students to experience mathematics as a beautiful, exciting subject empowering them to use critical and computational thinking, solving the problems they will encounter in their 21st-century work and lives.

—Jo Boaler

author of bestseller Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students' Potential through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching

Many are convinced that computers have pushed school maths ever closer to a cliff-edge falling into irrelevance. Almost uniquely, Conrad Wolfram's book offers a bold move forward. Based on both his experience and insight, he encourages us to 'jump into the unknown' and move from teaching computing skills to promoting computational thinking. He has pioneered this concept and drawn a compelling roadmap to overcome the deadlock, giving our students truly empowering maths skills.

—Jaak Aaviksoo

former Minister of Education, Estonia

A devastating assault on this parody of modern education comes from the information technology radical, Conrad Wolfram. Called The Math(s) Fix, it portrays maths as a subject which, perhaps like others, is trapped in the pre-computer age. Wolfram portrays maths exams as like taking a driving test with a horse and cart. It needs to take over where the computer leaves off, in a world of calculated uncertainty, risk and, dare we say it, common sense.

—Simon Jenkins

journalist and BBC broadcaster, The Guardian

More information on:

The Math(s) Fix: An Education Blueprint for The AI Age
Conrad Wolfram's groundbreaking book exposes why maths education is in crisis worldwide and how the only fix is a fundamentally new mainstream subject. This book is about the problem with maths education, how it came about and how it can be solved.

Computer-Based Maths
CBM is a new subject that starts from maths in the real world and works back to redefine the educational subject to match. A crucial change is to have computer-based (rather than human-powered) computation at its heart—redefining maths as the anchor subject for computational thinking across all subjects.

Computational Thinking
ComputationalThinking.org delivers learning programs for everyone. Our pioneering approach is not only about coding, math you may have missed and critical thinking, but also the underlying core computational thinking that drives all of them. With computational thinking, students learn how to take real-life situations and abstract—often to programs—so a computer can calculate the answer.