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 - Importance of Prereqs, Perceiving Progress, My Beef with Discovery Learning
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The Importance of Learning Your Prerequisites
2025 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 centered around the effectiveness of mastery learning.
How to Get Learners to Perceive Their Progress
2025 Feb, ~200 words • The solution that's worked best for me is to get learners thinking about where they were a few months ago.
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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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