5/31/2023 0 Comments Sal khan ted talk![]() ![]() In a martial art, you would practice the white belt skills as long as necessary, and only when you’ve mastered it you would move on to become a yellow belt. It’s the way you would learn a martial art. And in a lot of ways, this is how you would master a lot of things in life. They found resources like Khan Academy and they were able to fill in those gaps and master those concepts, and that reinforced their mindset that it wasn’t fixed that they actually were capable of learning mathematics. But when they were a bit older, they took a little agency and decided to engage. They thought they didn’t have the math gene. By the time they got to algebra, they had so many gaps in their knowledge they couldn’t engage with it. ![]() It was getting difficult as they got into more advanced math topics. They’re a little edgier than that.īut then the comments got a little more intense, student after student saying that they had grown up not liking math. Most of the comments are not “Thank you”. I don’t know how much time you all spend on YouTube. I saw it in the early days when I was uploading some of those videos on YouTube, and I realized that people who were not my cousins were watching.Īnd at first, those comments were just simple thank-yous. Or they’d get to a calculus class, and they’d be a little bit shaky on the algebra. And because of that, at some point they got to an algebra class and they might have been a little bit shaky on some of the pre-algebra, and because of that, they thought they didn’t have the math gene. A lot of them were having trouble with math at first, because they had all of these gaps accumulated in their learning. I saw this in the early days working with my cousins. And it’s the idea of mastery and the idea of mindset. I’m here today to talk about the two ideas that, at least based on my observations at Khan Academy, are kind of the core, or the key leverage points for learning. ![]()
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