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#226 – Jo Boaler: How to Learn Math

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Is There a Better Way to Teach Maths?

Teaching is really difficult for this very reason. So what is the best way to teach math, to learn math at those early few days when you just want to capture them? I do something actually, there's a video of me doing this on our website that I love when I first meet students. There's probably 18 different ways of seeing these seven dots. And so I ask people, tell me how you grouped it. Some people see it as like an outside hole with a center dot and some people see like stripes of lines. It's kind of cool. How well you groupitize predicts how well you do in maths.

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