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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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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 Most Mathematically Gifted Student I Ever Worked With Still Needed To Be Pushed to Learn Calculus~200 words • Even when you’re doing what you love, there will be grindy phases. But kids typically don’t understand this. It’s often up to parents, who can see the long game, to push...

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: You Can Explain Anything If You Break It Into Small Enough Steps~150 words Just Solve Today’s Problems Today~300 words How To Get Eyes On Your Writing When You Have No Audience~150 words And a new podcast: American Enterprise Institute’s “The Report Card” Podcast: Math Academy Listen...

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 I Went from 19 to 25000 Followers on X in 18 Months~1050 words • Here's the progression I followed to level up my writing and build an audience. It’s reproducible if you're willing to put in the work. The Cycle of AI~150 words • Progress is made in AI, people lose their shit...

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: Why Can’t College Students Do Middle School Math?~1800 words • 1 in 12 incoming UCSD freshmen don’t know middle school math, and the remedial math course was too advanced, so UCSD had to create a remedial remedial math course covering elementary and middle school math, and a quarter of...

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: Common Failure Modes in Early Math Education~700 words • 1) Staying in block-counting land so long that the the manipulatives become a crutch. 2) Covering a bunch of special-case arithmetic strategies instead of getting the kid really solid on the standard algorithms. 3) Avoiding...

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