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.
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: The Bar For Joining the Technical Workforce is Skyrocketing~150 words • ... and the bar for graduating school/college is cratering Math Trauma Isn’t Really About Math~100 words • Math trauma tends to be less about math and more about being asked to do advanced maneuvers before you've...
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: The Math Academy Prequel: Jason Roberts’s Origin Story~750 words • What do Jeff Dean, Travis Kalanick, and a 6'7", 350lb mountain man who collaborated with John Conway have in common? They're part of Jason Roberts's origin story, shared for the first time. When I took DiffEq in...
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: Why I Care So Much About Self-Service Learning~150 words • Most people, and especially most kids, don't understand that you can skill-equip yourself an Iron Man suit and fly off the default path that life sets before you. Most people don’t hate math. They hate the cognitive friction of...