How you can be good at math, and other surprising facts about learning | Jo Boaler | TEDxStanford

I'm religious so I saw the Red Sea method first.

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very primitive approach

I cannot believe these are still issues for discussion.. these should be commonplaces

Thank you ❤

Amazing content as always!

Americans are clowns. Trust me 😂

Love this one.

Is the "you can learn any level"valid also for the very advanced part(Such as conjectures etc.) Of math?

I’m so curious about the middle school kid after 8 years of pushing. This looks encouraging!❤

Showing this to my teacher during the test

Math require more practice than memorization. It is only subjects in which you can't pass school exam by pulling all nighter.

I love this! Practice makes perfect!

As soon as I try to tell my brain "math brains don't exist, finally learn how to program + do advanced math!!" My brain then retorts "man I wish I stuck with playing an instrument, I wish I played with legos as a kid, I wish I liked jigsaw puzzles growing up, I wish..." wishing my brain was socialized to be logic-oriented. A fixed mindset feels like one of the hardest traps to get out of

What does any of those things has to do with Math?

Excellent

So a bunch of kids dancing in a plaza in a music video (to a pirated song) accomplishes what?
This "educator" is accused of defrauding struggling schools with her exorbitant fees for her snake oil.
Did the audience leave knowing how to do math?

This woman is a fraud

FYI: This woman is responsible for removing Algebra I from California curriculum for middle schoolers in the name of "equity". At the same time, she sent her kids to private school. Vile woman.

It all the about the mind set and the pattern to change mindset to progress.

Everyone can evolve and development and progress.

Mathphobia could be caused by stressing cognitive load of deep, rigorous thinking which incurs much mental energy.
Most people also don't like doing intense physical exercises. Though, the number of health-concious people who go to gyms regularly are perhaps larger than those who love math.

Good teacher is a decisive actor of education. At least, there're Finns who sincerely believe that.

can i not agree and stil be right?

yo, why am i getting 3 minutes unskippable ads on this

I liked it very much, I will recommend it to friends.

A good way to study Math is To study and believe that God can help you with all things ❗️

I want to know who's doing calculus or differential equations in their head and doing it on their fingers. There is such a thing as too broad of a generalization.

Watching this instead of learning math for my next month exam it’s extremely hard for me 😢😢

Fun fact: Carol Dweck no longer subscribes to her own “growth mindset” theory and now believes that certain skills, like math, are indeed innate and genetic.

I wonder... my kid goes to school in Switzerland and they forbid to use fingers to count stuff, and all needs to be done in memory.

Everyone is trying too hard to sell math.

I hope I see it when I was in high school... Now I am 34 and forced to choose the law to escape from math and physics 😔
My teachers destroyed my life

I hope I see it when I was in high school... Now I am 34 and forced to choose the law to escape from math and physics 😔
My teachers destroyed my life

So, are you going to lift the standards and state test requirements, and allow students and teachers to decide what they need to learn and want to learn?

You are still having a "right" and a "wrong" - at least, you are asking kids to have the view of the squares rearrange to be squares. The parting of the red sea, the stairs to heaven denied, are both very creative and fun but, in the end "wrong" because you need the kids to realize this is a progression of squares. You are not going to be content just with the red sea, stairs.

When they made a mistake a synapse fired? How did the brain know it was a mistake? Surely you mean something else?

When they were made aware of a mistake and how to correct the mistake a synapse fired, or something?

But we DO say there is a "history" brain or a "physics" brain. Of course, anyone can learn anything, and we should believe that, but it's foolish to think we're all the same. There are artistic people. No amount of time, effort or study is going to make me an art whiz. But a reasonable amount of effort could make me good at something else.

Brains ARE different.

I've stumbled on this clip again.
Dr Boaler says that there's no such thing as a "maths brain". I wouldn't give an opinion on that - other than to say that if there's such a thing, then I don't have it.
Dr Boaler adds that no-one says they're born (or not) with a "physics brain". On this I wouldn't give an opinion, except to say that there is plenty of maths in physics. But then Dr Boaler says no-one speaks of a "history brain". True, but that's just silly, the two subjects can't be compared: maths is unique, it's a system of reasoning that calls for totally different mental processes.

Another thing about it is that when asked (in polls/studies) what subject they hated most at school, a large number of people answer "maths". They are not the majority but they are often the largest single group. Why? What makes maths trigger such emotions, why is the subject so uniquely hated by so many? Very few people have bothered to answer that one and yet until an answer is found levels will continue to drop. 

So forget for a moment telling maths phobics like me how they can overcome their loathing and become better at maths. If there was a sure-fire solution, we'd have heard about it. Let's start by trying to understand why so many are like me.

The word 'failure' should be transformed into the word 'insight'. Failure has a pejorative angle, the effect of an innate classification, a grading, or an implied hierarchy of "those who can" and "those who can't". This is so very divisive and has outcomes and self-belief that may last decades for many. It's very heartening to see such distinctions being made these days, even to the habits we were exhorted to avoid as kids actually being fundamentally enabling (counting on fingers!) who would have thought? Eyes to minds and minds to hands and back; a proper learning trajectory.

Que ótimo! os professores precisam revolucionar o ensino matematica urgente.

Making the mistake during exam I'm has been failed 😢😅

just egg headed jibberish
everyone is good at math the same way everyone is a great artist------just a lie
most kids are bad at math because they simply dont try- same as organic chemistry or anyrrhing else that takes effort
i am fine with her believe in your potential message- all good teachers and parents do that
just turns out most teachers and parents are not very good w/ the unlimited potential message so most kids hit school w/ built in limitations
thank god my parents were squarely in the you can do anything you want if you are willing to put in the work
no work= no success in math or anything else

Looks like the method is subliminally trying to teach the binomial expansion intuitively and easily. Bravo. Especially compared to the car crash that is current methods (from someone who has studied and tried to improve this for 20+ years). Keep up the good work.

Memory Retrieved Induced Action

Trying to Think Critically

Finger perception

Our brains needs tools to make easy of a task before we imagine mentally, think abstractly or have libraries of associated memories
Thus, speeding up maths learning

Fingers are easy, One to One, Physical way to count

I just failed my quiz today but it’s only because of my fault!

This video proves Philomena Cunk right about believing airplanes can fly.