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 Long Game of Building Minds and Machines; Teach Like Your Life Depends On It
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Hey! You're receiving this email because you requested to be notified about new posts at JustinMath.com. I recently started a podcast with Jason Roberts, called The Math Academy Podcast. We have two episodes out so far! It's on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts, and transcripts are available here. Here are our first 2 episodes: 0:00 - What Would a Tutor Do, If Their Life Depended On It? (Part 1)
5:47 - Find Your North Star: Why Justin Quit His Data Science Job to do Math Tutoring Full Time 11:23 - Getting "Inside the Trade" 19:31 - What Would a Tutor Do, If Their Life Depended On It? (Part 2) 27:28 - Efficient Learning Techniques are Obvious if You Think About Athletics 33:45 - Enjoyment is a Second-Order Optimization 39:50 - We Need to Stay Hardcore, But Become Less Harsh 51:14 - Math Academy is Like "Yuri's Gym" 59:06 - Vision for the Future of Math Academy 1:14:23 - Goal Setting/Advising and Communicating Progress 1:24:58 - If All You Show Up With is AP Calculus, You're Probably Outgunned 1:51:08 - The Meta-Skills that Kids Need to Work Effectively on Math Academy 2:08:54 - How to Help Students Maintain Successful Learning Habits While Working Independently 2:32:29 - Overhelping: A Common Failure Mode of Well-Intentioned Parents/Tutors
0:00 - Introduction
4:00 - Applying the MA Way to X Growth 7:40 - Status of the ML Course and its Kick-Ass Coding Projects (Part 1) 25:50 - Jason's Near-Infinite List of Important Things 34:20 - The ML Course Has Been a Massive Undertaking 42:10 - Breadth-First Development 44:30 - Status of the ML Course and its Kick-Ass Coding Projects (Part 2) 50:15 - Why Math Academy Needs To Do a CS Course 56:45 - The Never-Ending Stream of Confusion 1:00:30 - The Story of Eurisko, the Most Advanced Math/CS Track in the USA 1:24:20 - Intuition Through Repetition: Machine Learning Edition 1:29:40 - The Importance of Spaced Review 1:43:30 - Upcoming Course Roadmap 1:47:40 - Spaced Repetition 2.0: Accounting For and Discouraging Reference Reliance 1:54:45 - Overhelping: A Pathology of the Over-Involved Parent/Tutor 1:59:21 - Yes, You Need to be Automatic on Math Facts (and Yes, Rapid-Fire Training is Coming) 2:04:55 - What Happens When Students Don't Know Their Math Facts 2:05:50 - The Horror of Attempting to Teach a Class When Students Have Multi-Year Deficits in Fundamental Skills 2:11:30 - Integrating Coding Into the Math Curriculum 2:18:00 - Combining Math and Coding is the Closest Thing to a Real-Life Superpower 2:18:55 - Creating a Full Math Degree and Getting Full College Credit 2:22:15 - The Power of Pre-Learning: The Greatest Educational Life Hack 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.
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