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 - Prerequisite Knowledge is Intellectual Capital; Recall Before Rereading; Self-Discovery Is an Effortful Process
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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: Prerequisite Knowledge is Intellectual Capital
~150 words • It's easy to feel untalented when you're really just missing prerequisite skills. A Real Analysis student who thought she might fail her class had simply never gotten much practice with proof-writing -- a few sessions filling that gap and she came out with an A.
Self-Discovery Is an Effortful Process
~200 words • Self-discovery doesn't feel pleasant every step of the way -- that's the point. You discover what you're good at and love by working hard at various challenges until the signal emerges from the noise. There is no shortcut.
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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.
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.) __________ #1 The goal isn’t to think faster. It’s to need less thinking. Imagine I ask you: what’s 2 + 2? You don’t think. You just know. Now imagine I ask: what’s 478 × 63? Now your brain has to work. Automaticity is when a skill becomes like 2 + 2 instead of 478 × 63. Your brain doesn’t have to spend...
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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 the 3 top posts from the past week: __________ #1 You cannot be creative at a high level unless you are robotic at a low level. People love to talk about creativity as if it floats above skill, but creativity needs raw material. It needs patterns, facts, examples, rules, exceptions, and procedures...