All Classes and Courses

Computational Xplorations

Instructor Led | FREE

Requirements: This course requires no prior knowledge of Wolfram Language or Mathematica.

Certification Levels: Completion

Discover how to interactively explore nearly any field using computation. See how computational thinking—a modern blend of critical analysis and information processing—can be applied to almost any field, from cartography to machine learning–powered 3D facial reconstruction. You'll learn practical ways to use knowledge-based programming workflows in your classroom, research project or company. This class introduces innovative methods for discovering ideas and insights using the computational intelligence of Wolfram Language, the user-friendly coding environment of Wolfram Notebooks and the curated real-world knowledge of the Wolfram Knowledgebase.

Introduction to Electric Circuits

Interactive Course | FREE

Requirements: This course requires high-school level physics, algebra and basic calculus.

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1

Explore the fundamentals of electric circuits in this interactive course using Wolfram Language and Wolfram System Modeler. User-friendly diagrams, visualizations and models intuitively demonstrate how electric circuits behave. The course covers circuit components, basic theoretical concepts and methods for analysis. The final section of the course focuses on operational amplifiers.

Learn to Use Chat Notebooks

Video Lesson | FREE

Chat Notebooks integrate LLM capabilities with powerful Wolfram Language features in a convenient notebook interface. This video shows how to get started using chat-enabled notebooks and teaches you about chat cell functionality. Learn how to use chat prompts to get help writing code, run calculations and create interactive visualizations.

Wolfram Language for Geosciences

Video Lesson | FREE

Learn how to access built-in geographic data in the Wolfram Knowledgebase. Work with, plot and map data from both the Knowledgebase and external sources.

Hands-on Start to Wolfram Mathematica Training Tutorials

Special Event | FREE

Certification Levels: AttendanceLevel 1

Join a free online training session to learn different ways to interact with Mathematica—enter queries through free-form input and Wolfram Language, create notebooks, perform symbolic and numeric calculations, generate 2D and 3D graphics, create an interactive Manipulate, analyze data and turn your notebook into an interactive presentation. This is an exciting opportunity to learn directly from the authors of the book Hands-on Start to Wolfram Mathematica and Programming with the Wolfram Language and ask questions during the interactive Q&A. Participants will need access to either Mathematica for the desktop or Mathematica Online to utilize the hands-on aspects of this training.

Notebooks as Instructional Tools

Instructor Led | FREE

Requirements: This course requires no prior knowledge of Wolfram Language or Mathematica.

Certification Levels: Completion

This course explores the versatility of Wolfram Notebooks for teaching and learning. Learn to write code with the help of natural language processing and chat-enabled notebook cells. Get practice and instruction in creating interactive content for sharing in notebooks, on the cloud and on the web.

Back to School with AI Tools and Wolfram

Video Lesson | FREE

This video explains how generative AI can be used to help students meet their learning goals and also help teachers teach and assess critical and creative thinking skills.

Bringing Math to Life through Visual Learning

Video Lesson | FREE

This video class demonstrates how to encourage critical thinking in the classroom with the use of Wolfram|Alpha and the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. No previous experience with Mathematica or the Wolfram Language is required.

Calculus Applications and Algorithms

Video Lesson | FREE

This class provides applications of calculus functions in the Wolfram Language and a discussion of the internal methods used for solving problems.

Calculus Fundamentals

Video Lesson | FREE

This class gives a broad overview of calculus operations in the Wolfram Language. Learn details about the functionality for computing integrals and solving differential equations, and become familiar with the Wolfram Language built-in functions Integrate and DSolve. See how animations and interactive graphics are useful for understanding concepts. This class is suitable for beginners wanting to use Mathematica and the Wolfram Language to solve calculus problems.

Can I Spot a Cheat?

Interactive Course | FREE

Requirements: This course requires basic working knowledge of the Wolfram Language, common data visualisations (histograms) and empirical and probability distributions.

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1

Being able to measure variations in data and identify abnormal variation is an important skill in many fields. In the financial sector, for example, fraudulent behaviour can cost huge sums of money. In this Computational Thinking module, you will learn how to recognise patterns in data that differ “significantly” from the norm and learn how to provide evidence that the source of one dataset is different to another. You will learn how to use significance levels to quantify how unexpected the patterns or differences were, ultimately writing and interpreting your own hypothesis test.

Cause or Correlation?

Interactive Course | FREE

Requirements: This course requires basic working knowledge of the Wolfram Language, common data visualisations (histograms) and statistics (mean, median).

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1

Knowing how one variable affects another is important in many instances in real life, from medical diagnoses to environmental impacts or financial trends. In this Computational Thinking module, you will learn about dependent connections between variables, the possible cause(s) for such dependencies and how these are often misused in the media to make claims that are incorrect—particularly about how adopting one behaviour can cause something positive or negative to happen.

Collaboration and Sharing with Mathematica Online

Video Lesson | FREE

Encourage group collaboration by sharing content in the Wolfram Cloud. Mathematica Online complements desktop usage by offering cloud-based access to Wolfram Notebooks, web forms, instant APIs and other content. This video will show you how to deploy your interactive content to the cloud, where your public audience or private group can access it with their web browser, without needing a Mathematica license. You'll also learn how to embed interactive content into a webpage or CMS/LMS as well as how to share notebooks in a classroom setting or with project stakeholders.

Computation for Social Sciences

Video Lesson | FREE

Would you find it useful to have a complete, integrated and fully automated platform for doing social science computations? Learn how to use built-in and external data to explore or model concepts and ideas using Wolfram Language. Examples include analyzing texts written by different authors, mapping boundaries of historical empires, social network analysis and determining political sentiment from tweets.

Computational Economics

Video Lesson | FREE

How could making use of a complete, highly automated and integrated platform for research and computation in economics be helpful to you? Learn different ways to access, process, simulate and analyze economic data using Wolfram Language. Examples include modeling a Nash equilibrium, predicting credit rating categories and forecasting stock prices.

Computational Zoology

Video Lesson | FREE

How would you make use of a complete, integrated and fully automated platform for zoology computations? Learn how to use Wolfram Language to access built-in and external data about different animal species and also build simple machine learning models to process zoology data. Examples include a comparative study of the fastest mammals, image recognition to identify animals and exploring biotic interactions.

Creative Computation

Interactive Course | FREE

Requirements: This course requires no prior knowledge of Mathematica or the Wolfram Language.

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1

Explore core programming concepts by creating visual art, poetry and video games using built-in Wolfram Language functions and the Wolfram Notebook interface. Learn to use coding and computation as tools to develop your creative potential and build a portfolio of computationally creative work.

Designing Interactive Demonstrations

Video Lesson | FREE

This class gives pro tips and best practices for authoring your own Demonstrations, correcting common problems, testing your Demonstrations and joining the Wolfram Demonstrations Project. The class is for those who have an interest in creating Demonstrations suitable for classroom use or joining the Demonstrations Project. Basic knowledge of the Wolfram Language is recommended.

Discovering the Educational Potential of Wolfram|Alpha

Video Lesson | FREE

Discover the educational potential of Wolfram|Alpha. Browse examples in science and technology, society and culture, mathematics and everyday life. Compute accurate fact-based answers and generate visual results with the use of curated data and knowledge and dynamic computation. Access step-by-step solutions for chemistry, calculus, basic math problems and more. Click Open Code buttons to compute in the cloud with your Wolfram|Alpha results and provide unlimited practice problems with Wolfram Problem Generator.

Does Gender Help with Your Maths Score?

Interactive Course | FREE

Requirements: This course requires knowledge of common data visualisations (pie charts, bar charts, histograms) and statistics (min-max, mean, median, range).

Certification Levels: CompletionLevel 1

The ability to decide whether group A is different, either better or worse, than group B is an important technique within computational thinking and data science. It is useful in many areas, from medical experiments to sales figures to environmental changes. This Computational Thinking module introduces you to how problems like this can be tackled, first on small datasets, then on a national scale, comparing results to published reports.

EdTech for the Computational Classroom (Study Group Sessions)

Archived Event | FREE

This Daily Study Group explores the benefits of bringing computational learning to all course subjects. Lessons start with a broad overview to provide a sense of what's possible with Wolfram technology, from interactive graphs and geographic plots to financial and historical data analysis. Later lessons share examples of student computational notebooks exploring subjects like math, physics and computer science with a final lesson demonstrating Wolfram's new question and assessment framework.

Explore the Total Solar Eclipse of 2024 with Wolfram Language

Archived Event | FREE

Learn how to use Wolfram Language to predict when the eclipse will happen and how it will look from any location on April 8, 2024. Compute contact times, duration, speed, the maximum obscuration of the Sun and much more. Construct precise and detailed maps of the sky for the event, as well as maps of the Earth showing the totality path. Wolfram experts will show the calculations behind the Precision Eclipse website and demonstrate the astro capabilities and built-in knowledge of Wolfram Language that support those results.

Exploring Wolfram|Alpha Mobile & Tablet Apps

Video Lesson | FREE

In this video class, you will see how Wolfram|Alpha mobile apps give you access to the world of computable knowledge wherever you go. You will be introduced to the key features of the Wolfram|Alpha mobile app and will get a glimpse of the extensive reference data and computational power available in the Wolfram|Alpha-powered Reference Apps, Professional Assistant Apps and Personal Assistant Apps.

Hands-on Start to Mathematica

Video Lesson | FREE

Learn the basics of Mathematica and get started using it in your day-to-day work. This video will show you how to create and organize content in your notebook, use free-form input and Wolfram Language to enter calculations and generate graphics, define your own variables, create interactive models and modify examples in the live documentation. Topics are based on content from the book Hands-on Start to Wolfram Mathematica and Programming with the Wolfram Language, which is available in paperback and on Kindle. This video class requires no prior experience with Mathematica or Wolfram Language.