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Life is great when you reach out to a family in California to ask how they knew about us and they tell us about Barbara Oackley´s book. #Mathematics youtube.com/watch?v=Bbc4A6…
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Smartick
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Adaptive online math program for children ages 4-14. Powered by cutting-edge AI to help you avoid costly tutoring and learning centers.
Boston, MA شامل ہوئے Haziran 2016
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@Ed_of_O @Oliver_S_Curry I wonder if we'll find that the impact depends on the person & what their focus is. Some people might find social media empowering if they focus on connecting w communities or getting info. For others focused on status or achievement, it could fuel envy & depression.
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6th grade teacher Jon Midget dramatically improved math scores by changing his approach. He now starts each class with timed multiplication drills, teaches procedures before concepts, and has students practice 30-40 problems daily instead of just 6. Every assignment mixes new and old topics throughout the year. Result: over 80% of students now score in the 97th percentile. hollykorbey.substack.com/p/how-to-weave…
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👏Excellent article in the Globe & Mail about math screening. Kudos to the reporter. Here's one of my quotes.
Emphasize: we don't have to have this math crisis. We really don't. But we keep using ineffective approaches.
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More evidence that the global decline in test scores that began after 2012 is linked to the proliferation of smartphones and computers in class: The slide was bigger in countries where students began spending more time on devices (for leisure)
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It’s important to note that Boaler’s philosophies have a common wellspring with other bad ideas in education (Whole Language): misguided but seductive-at-face-value ideas about how kids learn.
There’s a Cult of Engagement behind it all: the idea that kids will all achieve better if we just make more engaging. And once we make it more engaging, we’ll close gaps and *poof* equity will magically be achieved.
(I’m oversimplifying a little, but not by much.)
The SFUSD debacle, the California math framework, the YouCubed coursework, the popularity of Balanced Literacy… they all draw from this wellspring.
It’s wildly prevalent among educators, and parents and the public fall for it, too! This Mr. Beast video, which is being widely critiqued in learning science circles, is just the latest example of it. “We can reinvent education and making it more engaging will make learning easier and access more students” is the underlying assumption.
Figures like Jo Boaler and Lucy Calkins and Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell provide an academic fig leaf for these philosophies, but they didn’t originate them, and they aren’t the only people carrying them forward. The majority of US educators (though thankfully not all) believe these things.
I say this because canceling Jo Boaler, if we can achieve it, won’t solve the problem. Someone else will rise up to become the new Boaler.
We need much more public and parent education about What Good Looks Like, so parents show up at schools as educated consumers.
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MrBeast explains why the education system is completely broken “Why are students today being taught the same way their parents were? Look at how much everything else has advanced. When I was in school the teacher would just stand there, read out of a book and write on a whiteboard” "Now look at Mark Rober’s videos. You can learn complex topics in 20 minutes in a way that’s engaging, fun and you retain it. Just because our parents were taught one way doesn’t mean we need to keep teaching that same way. It makes no sense to me, I think education should be reformed dramatically” “Students spend so much time in school. If we had real courses made through videos, made learning more hands on and optimised everything with modern technology, kids could probably learn more in 5 hours than they currently do in 8 hours"
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The damage that Jo Boaler and other "Equity-Based Mathematics Education Researchers" cannot be understated
Watering down the curriculum and refusing advanced students move ahead has stagnated test scores and only increased behavior-related problems in the classroom.
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@MrDanielBuck Deliberate practice, always fine 😄Our case with mathematics.
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All of the research actually finds precisely the opposite
Direct instruction is wildly effective
Discovery learning is an abject failure
Yet like learning styles and big foot, the myth persists
gentiedye@gentiedye
@MrDanielBuck @ShakinthatChalk Direct instruction was found long ago to be inferior to more discovery-based learning. Next
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@rastokke It´s always a pleasure to learn from Barbara Oakley. One of our most treasured memories is her visit to Smartick:
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🩺 Math education today is where medicine was 200 years ago: light on evidence & ed gurus selling programs that don't work. Like surgeons who refused to wash their hands because they didn't want to admit they were wrong. Check out this clip ⬇️
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@rastokke @sarahpowellphd Thanks, Anna. Our founder has asked us to tell you, also @sarahpowellphd how much he enjoyed listening to the episode. Very inspiring for Smartick.
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So many positive messages streaming in about my latest episode w/ @sarahpowellphd
🎧Have you listened yet?
We respond to the NCSM statement criticizing the Science of Math and confront the real issue: resistance to evidence is alive and well in math education. Links below 👇
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Some thoughts on the growing global trend to regulate kids' use of smartphones / social media.
In the past I've compared smartphones to cigarettes, which is unfair - they're obviously more useful than that.
Cars are a better analogy - a brilliant technology with horrible downsides.
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/what-would-m…
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So glad to find @daisychristo here. Part of the Smartick team reading Reforming Lessons, by @NickGibbUK
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@daisychristo We´ll keep trying, Daisy ;). But you are right, we can´t tell our families that Smartick is fun. We can tell them that we strive to keep students motivated as they learn mathematics.
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In today's world, it's structurally impossible for education to be fun.
Educators are optimising for engagement and learning, but entertainment apps are optimising just for engagement.
It's a game you cannot win. The solution is to change the rules...
substack.nomoremarking.com/p/why-educatio…
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@daisychristo Great piece. And that´s why Smartick families tell us that they love seeing their children practicing math with us. It’s as if you could actually see their brains at work.
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As technology gets more and more powerful, is there a risk that humans get lazier and less competent? Unfortunately, yes.
The obesogenic society has been with us for a while; the stupidogenic society is on its way.
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@MrDanielBuck That´s why Smartick kids advance so much: they practice by themselves, at their own pace.
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Group work is overrated
Learning is individual
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Learning doesn't happen without memorization.
Prof. Feynman@ProfFeynman
Memorization is not learning.
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@daisychristo Great article, Daisy. We´ll start to see ourselves like mental gyms ;).
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Obesogenic societies make it easy to be overweight.
Are we living in a stupidogenic society - one that makes it easy to be stupid?
And if so, what can schools do about it?
Latest on our Substack - link below.
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This is a great article by @HKorbey educationnext.org/practice-probl… and it touches a universal concern: how to promote routine use of math platforms. We always tell parents: Smartick isn’t magic—it takes daily effort. Some kids have done it for 1,000+ days in a row.
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