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Justin Skycak

Chief Quant, Director of Analytics at Math Academy. Posts about learning, upskilling, math education, Math Academy, and more generally, stages 2-3 of Bloom's talent development process in hierarchical skill domains.

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New on JustinMath.com - Protect The Habit; Never Come Up Empty-Handed; Models Are Just Data Interpolators

Hey! You're receiving this email because you requested to be notified about new posts at JustinMath.com.(If you've changed your mind, click here to unsubscribe, please avoid marking spam.) Here are 3 new posts from the past month: Protect The Habit2025 May, ~150 words • When the time comes to get back into the swing of things, it's a lot easier to speed up a slow wagon that you're on, than to get back on a wagon that you've completely fallen off of. Never Come Up Empty-Handed2025 May, ~250...

Hey! You're receiving this email because you requested to be notified about new posts at JustinMath.com.(If you've changed your mind, click here to unsubscribe, please avoid marking spam.) Here are 3 new posts from the past month: How Taxing Work Becomes Fun2025 Apr, ~400 words • "Wait, am I... cracked? No way. But I just did this thing that I've seen cracked people do and I wasn't able to that before. Holy shit I'm actually getting cracked." It’s All About Domain Knowledge2025 Apr, ~300...

Hey! You're receiving this email because you requested to be notified about new posts at JustinMath.com.(If you've changed your mind, click here to unsubscribe, please avoid marking spam.) Here are 3 new posts from the past month: The Importance of Learning Your Prerequisites2025 Feb, ~500 words • Mastery learning -- one of the most reliable, largest-effect-size techniques for elevating student learning outcomes -- centers on learning prerequisites. In fact, the famous Two-Sigma Problem is...

Hey! You're receiving this email because you requested to be notified about new posts at JustinMath.com.(If you've changed your mind, click here to unsubscribe, please avoid marking spam.) Here are 3 new posts from the past month: Math Academy’s Eurisko Sequence, 5 Years Later: Student Outcomes Emerging From the Most Advanced High School Math/CS Sequence in the USA2025 Mar, ~2500 words • During its operation from 2020-23, Eurisko was the most advanced high school math/CS sequence in the USA....

Hey! You're receiving this email because you requested to be notified about new posts at JustinMath.com.(If you've changed your mind, click here to unsubscribe, please avoid marking spam. Also, sorry if this email is duplicated -- I encountered some problems sending this newsletter directly from Gmail, and either nobody or very few people actually received it, so I'm resending via a proper newsletter management service, which, admittedly, is long overdue.) A new podcast came out last weekend....