TEDxBaltimore highlights importance of STEM education

Science and math education has to be about more than complicated formulas and lengthy equations, a Morgan State University professor told a crowd of students and Baltimore technology professionals on Friday.

A key to growing interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) subjects among students — especially minorities and women — is to present the subject matter in a way that students can easily see how it relates to them, said Roni Ellington, assistant professor of mathematics…