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.
New on JustinMath.com - How To Compress a Grade Level’s Worth of Learning Much, Much Shorter Than a Year; Scaling a Startup; SAT Math Prep
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Hey! You're receiving this email because you requested to be notified about new posts at JustinMath.com. Here are 3 new posts: How To Compress a Grade Level’s Worth of Learning Much, Much Shorter Than a Year
~100 words • Seven steps to compressing a grade level's worth of learning far below a year: diagnostic, knowledge graph, mastery before advancing, minimum effective doses of instruction and practice, spaced review, and using new learning to knock out old review.
Scaling a Startup Is Like Playing Call of Duty Zombies
~100 words • At first you can run around sporadically. But quickly you need to funnel things through a pipeline, guard pressure points, and deal with the occasional zombie that breaks through out of nowhere.
Announcing our SAT Math Prep Course
~1700 words • There's a gigantic "missing middle" between the standard math curriculum and what actually appears on the SAT -- skills most students won't pick up even if they ace every math class. We identified it, mapped it to a knowledge graph, and built a course to teach it explicitly. Best, |
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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