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New on JustinMath.com - Learning is About Bridge-Building, Not Jumping; Recall First, Reason Second; It Always Becomes a Battle of Willpower By The End
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Learning is About Bridge-Building, Not Jumping
2025 Jun, ~550 words • The way you increase your ability to make mental leaps is not actually by jumping farther, but rather, by building bridges that reduce the distance you need to jump.
Recall First, Reason Second
2025 Jun, ~150 words • To build automaticity: instead of deriving/reasoning a result before applying it, force yourself to first recall the result from memory, and then justify the it afterwards. Recall first, reason second.
It Always Becomes a Battle of Willpower By The End
2025 Jun, ~250 words • You will have to work harder than others. Best, |
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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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