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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Is 26% proficiency in math acceptable to you? That’s the question teacher and Synergy Academies Founder Dr. Randy Palisoc asks the TEDxManhattanBeach audience. With only 26% of U.S. twelfth graders proficient in mathematics, Randy shares his solution: teach math as a language. Putting words back into math lessons enables even the youngest school-age minds to grasp complex concepts, such as fractions, that are traditionally thought of as abstract and difficult to understand. In his stunningly simple and effective approach, math no longer creates problems for kids but solves them.
Randy Palisoc is a passionate educator, known for making math easy. A founder of the five-time national award winning Synergy Academies, Randy is proud to identify Synergy as an “in spite of” school. In spite of the fact that its students were disadvantaged and in spite of the fact that it did not have its own facility and had to pack up its classrooms every single week, his school was the first and only elementary school in South Los Angeles to ever win the National Blue Ribbon Award, and was named the #1 Urban Elementary School in America in 2013.
Seeking a broader impact, Randy left Synergy this year to start Ironbox Education. One of the ways he believes we can dramatically improve America’s schools is by doing a better job teaching math to our students in a way that makes sense to them. Randy believes implementing a few changes in the way we approach math will give students the confidence and thinking skills to be more competitive in a global economy.
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The “Game Changer” he most admires is Steve Jobs, because he had the ability to envision things we did not even know we needed or wanted.
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Outstanding.
I can't do it, I can't fuckin do it!!!!
1 apple + 1 apple = 2 apples is analogous to 1/3 + 1/3… that's all well and good. But what is 1 apple + 1 pencil? Or what's 1/3 + 1/4? You've still gotta learn how to convert apples to pencils.
Excellent! As a language teacher, I agree with you 100% and believe when students approach math as a language, they will enjoy it more as they apply it to the real world. Thank you Dr. Palisoc.
My maths teacher used have a bloody cane, bought from the forceful donation by us students, then whatever we couldn't solve that cane would force it out of us…
Math is an art to me and I was very good in it
I got 96% in it in high school
It was my hobby
I am so sad to did not study it
I am a doctor and until now I blame my self
My advice
Be what you want not what community want from you
I'm in tears. I don't now anything
Math is so easy
that was easy as we thought but hard to put it into practice….hope I had a teacher like him
The wix ad in the beginning killed me. :/
Thanks! I have never seen math like this before.
what about 4 third + 4 sixths. They would guess 8 thixs. See it doesn't make sense
Math is a language that I cant understand.
Does geometry has language in it?
So I don't have to take a language class other than math and writing?
Just because it is a language it doesn´t mean that it´s not hard. Chinese language, for example, is quite hard.
Where can I get a "make math human again" hat?
Yes it's a language. And the word is "Maths" you barbarians
I can't do math I'm good in any other subject but math
How does a 5 year old know what 7 + 2 is?
I don't get it.
"we have to see math as a human language, therefore I had a child memorize the multiplication table which saved them a lot of time from not counting on their fingers anymore"
I just don't see the connection? also, the quote from the curriculum on fractions was kinda unfair I think. I seriously doubt that the idea behind it is that a teacher should just read the quote word for word to students and expect them to know it instantly. that's not what teaching is. the quote is just a formal statement detailing what a student should know. the talk about apples isn't even applicable in that case, since 3/7 + 8/2 has different "units". it's no longer apples and apples.
I just have a really hard time figuring out exactly what the lecture was against and what the proposed solution was. what does "math as a human language" even mean? how does "apples + apples" give any sort of insight when it comes to realizing the implications of the fundamental theorem of homomorphisms or how to visualize an infinite-dimensional linear transformation or understanding the concept of adjoint functors and how they relate to monads and algebras over them?
Now imagine inventing a language, that's like graduate mathematics.
Exactly, so
1arctan<40 = O/A
It's as simple as apples plus apples
But think of it this way, 94 Apples divided by thirds. How many cars are in your smoothie? And hiw many will be in 1 day. The answer to this is 99 speed. But your welcome to correct me.
You will never be good at math, you just don't have the genes, get back to flipping burgers
Of course this guy is Asian
I didn't know Chinese was a language