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#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math

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Are You a Visual Learner?

There are two visual pathways in the brain and we should all be thinking about it visually. The neuroscience has shown us that when you work on a maths problem, there are five different brain pathways. Most high achieving people in the world are people who have more connections between these pathways. So if you see a maths problem with numbers, but you also see it visually, that will cause a connection to happen in your brainbetween these pathways. If you maybe write about it with words, that would cause another connection or maybe you build it with something physical, that would caused a different connection. And what we want for kids is we call it a multi-dimensional experience of maths, seeing it in different

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