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Math Academy
Math Academy
2 episodes
5 hours ago
Stories, challenges, and discoveries from the front lines of building the ultimate math learning system.
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Stories, challenges, and discoveries from the front lines of building the ultimate math learning system.
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Education
Episodes (2/2)
Math Academy
Teach Like Your Life Depends On It

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

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2 days ago
2 hours 42 minutes 55 seconds

Math Academy
The Long Game: Building Minds and Machines

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

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3 days ago
2 hours 36 minutes 12 seconds

Math Academy
Stories, challenges, and discoveries from the front lines of building the ultimate math learning system.