Math Learning Specialist since 1980 Author of: Dyslexia Cured: One Child's Story Math Class Redesigned Logic Mysteries and Puzzles for brilliant young minds
Berkeley, CA
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If someone could design a math learning app that unlocks the most useful, challenging, interesting math a given child’s working memory can handle, this would be amazing. Right now we seem to have 2 choices for most kids: fake their grades or fail them.
Most math curriculum designers do not understand how working memory develops in children and how varied working memory capacity is in the population. A child cannot will themselves to have a greater WM than they currently have. This is the great bottleneck in learning math.
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NEW: UC San Diego has released a new report documenting a “steep decline in the academic preparedness” of its freshmen.
The number of entering students needing remedial math has exploded from 1/100 to 1/8.
They’ve had to create a second remedial class covering elementary and middle school math skills in addition to the one covering gaps from high school.
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Andrew Wiles on the morning he discovered how to fix his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
Two questions for people who used to find math confusing & overwhelming (no matter how hard you tried) and then broke through this and began to understand math deeply: what turned this around for you? And at what level of math did this happen?
Is there any data on what % of children reach full automaticity with math facts, defined as 40-60 correct answers (not digits) per minute? #mathfacts #automaticity #processingspeed
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The rates of neurodevelopmental disorders are rising exponentially.
The cause isn't a change in our genetics.
We must prioritize understanding and protecting the brain health of our children.
Why do most children no longer hold a pencil in a tripod grip? Why did this once-popular way of holding a pencil go out of style, even though many of the alternate grips typically result in difficulty forming legible letters and math symbols with ease? Really curious about this!
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The lower insulin gets, the more impossible it becomes for the body to store energy. Love this.
The single greatest flaw in K-12 math education is the focus on word problems that depend on math that the students (and sometimes teachers) have not yet mastered. 1/2
I find this video quite striking in many ways, and also so nostalgic. I was taught using this exact method at age 5 in Grade 1 at Miss Edgar's School in 1965, about 2 mins away from the school in the video. #matheducation #numbersense youtu.be/ae0McT5WYa8?si=ldQx…
What exactly does it mean when a 10-year old child's STAR math scores are at the advanced 11th-grade level on the STAR benchmark chart but the child had not yet learned high school math? Trying to make sense of this!
Unless I am missing something, it appears to mean the child answered a pre-algebra question correctly, just as a competent 11th grader would have -- but has nothing whatsoever to do with 11th grade math. #learning #edtesting #edchat #math
A page from my new book Logic Mysteries and Puzzles for brilliant young minds. amazon.com/dp/1732737428
These logic problems in my new book are the best way I have found to engage an entire class, even if the spread of math levels is enormous. @NielsHoven, @RexRidgeway, @mayak46, @SarahDRasmussen, @NumCog, @sharemath amazon.com/dp/1732737428
My new book of challenging logic problems for kids is available: amazon.com/dp/1732737428
If someone were to give me the unlikely assignment of taking a class of thirty children and trying to frustrate and annoy them, ruin their experience of math, and slow down their learning tremendously, I would know exactly how to go about it... janemolnar.com/explain-your-…
