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 - The Cognitive Friction of Missing Prerequisites; Why I Care About Self-Service Learning; Agentic Coding
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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: 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 of My Coding is Now Agentic
~150 words And a new podcast: OpenEd Podcast: The Real Reason Your Kid Hates Math (It’s Not Them) ~1h • Most kids hate math because it's taught inefficiently, through one-size-fits-all lectures, where they're constantly asked to learn new things despite not having mastered the prerequisites. Students can learn far faster and with less stress when instruction is individualized, mastery-based, interleaved, and reinforced through spaced repetition. Math becomes frustrating when students are pushed ahead with gaps in foundational skills or cognitively overloaded; it becomes motivating when they experience small, frequent wins at the edge of their "knowledge frontier." Math Academy operationalizes this through an adaptive diagnostic that detects missing prerequisites and constructs a custom course to cover them, short alternating bursts of instruction and practice to ensure that students master material before moving on, and cumulative spaced review & quizzes to prevent forgetting, creating an individualized "glove fit" to each individual student. The broader vision is a shift away from lockstep classrooms toward individualized, coach-like learning. 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: 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...
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...