STEAM education

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STEAM education is an approach to teaching STEM subjects that incorporates artistic skills like creative thinking and design. [1] [2] The name derives from the acronym STEM, with an A added to stand for arts. STEAM programs aim to teach students innovation, to think critically, and to use engineering or technology in imaginative designs or creative approaches to real-world problems while building on students' mathematics and science base. [3] [4] [5]

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STEAM in children's media

Other uses of the STEAM acronym

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