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S2E4: Sarah Powell on Myths that Undermine Math Teaching

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Is There a Connection Between Working Memory and Math Skills?

Zachary: We all want to find the magic bullet, right? Like, wouldn't it be so awesome if I did 10 minutes of executive functioning training every day and my math scores increased like, wow, that would just be amazing if that worked. And we see the same thing related to like growth mindset. People will say, oh, they just have to do this growth mindset intervention. And that will also increase their math outcomes. Well, the research doesn't support that either. Zachary: This is probably something that is going to change. But for right now, you don't want to do something on executive functioning and isolation and then just cross your fingers and hope that it

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