Mudhut to NASA’s J_Webb Telescope|| Scientist mathEducator 17yrs👉 Uncommon insights on building kids’ mathematical thinking: Problem-Solving & Mindset |Mom2x
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Mindset set is sooo important in what ever our little ones set out to do.
Agree?
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“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
– Confucius
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Our education system is failing and it's not making people prepared for life.
Why? It's making people good at school, but not in the real world.
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Writing is difficult.
Reason is the story on paper can never be as good as the one inside the head.
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"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When I studied mathematics, I decided to specialize in subtraction because I wanted to make a difference.
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Education isn't a silo: it starts in childhood, but never runs out.
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Gentle parenting means guiding out of violence rather than going against impulse.
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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, "the greatest mathematician since antiquity", was born in the spring of 1777.
His mother was illiterate and only remembered that he was born 8 days before the Feast of Ascension. From that, Gauss used his math skills to calculate his birthday!
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Traditional education often gives an impression that knowledge is fixed - we know what’s true and what’s not.
However the reality is that knowledge is always fluid.
And this is where there’s much room for improvement in traditional schooling.
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"Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death."
- Mark Twain
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- YouTube
- Zoom
- Skillshare
- Outschool
- Online school curriculums
- Numerous education startups
- iPads
- Inexpensive laptops
- Chromebooks
were not available a generation ago.
Primary education has many more resources now for fundamental transformation.
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What if every day was a school day for kids 7 to 70?
In a positive way?
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Since the start of the pandemic, public school enrollment in the US has dropped by 1.4 million students, or 3%. It’s the largest single-year decline since World War II.
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No matter what a young person chooses to study:
- Engineering
- Science
- Law
- Medicine
- Liberal arts
Writing is the one skill that complements every career in the world.
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MathWorks, the company behind MATLAB and Simulink, did the math right.
In 2019:
$1B revenue, growing ~10%
100,000 customers
4M MATLAB users
5,000 employees
Profitable (same as last 36 years)
$0 Venture capital raised
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When education limits imagination it's called indoctrination.
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Kids and parents: Breaking stuff together is a great learning experience!
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Investing in a college education is like investing in?
a.) US Treasury Bonds
b.) Tech Stocks
c.) Cryptocurrency
My answer: used to be a.) very safe, now it’s b.) more risky, in the future it’ll be c.) very risky
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Most kids can learn math.
The question that I ask myself is "should they?"
If math is not connected to anything, it can be a dry and boring topic.
Magic happens when math is connected to something meaningful.
Why not reverse the order?
Find meaning 1st then learn the math.
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