Math isn't hard, it's a language | Randy Palisoc | TEDxManhattanBeach
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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. Favorite TED Talk: “My Invention That Made Peace With Lions”: Richard Turere 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. About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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Nation
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why you think you are an exceptional country, seriously what makes you exceptional?
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0:38 she's just happy with her hands down XD
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Math is for nerds. Some kids actually want to get laid. When the cheerleaders start banging the mathletes we'll see a turn-around. Not until then.
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I believed "Mathematics is a language" were my personal thoughts only. Happy someone else thinks it too
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Mathattan
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That's exactly what maths is all about. Though, math becomes very ugly when it comes to partial integration and substitution method II 😅😅
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This is very similar to what my high school maths teacher keeps telling me!
Listen to yourself as you read the problem. It will make sense if you've covered the foundations enough. -
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language is hard to me I flunk foreign language and barely scraped through in English which is my native tongue so this anology is really not helping me
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bad and good
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I have Dyscalculia, currently struggling in school🙁😩
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i am a maths teacher, i have no problem in mathematics, i like maths very much haa..
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Serious question. What type of math do you do when you're 12-15 years old in the US?
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He sounds like a terrific math teacher. Wish schools were full of teachers like him.
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The problem with math and kids is that, math can't just be taught. Sure, your teacher will give you the tools to work with, but no one can make you understand math apart from yourself. You need to sit down on your ass, and start working with math and learn to understand what is happening and why. Ask question, do research... and learn to understand it. Your teacher unfortunately can't do that. Homework will not teach you math. Its just a few equations that you should solve using the tools you were given. But to understand it, you need to go beyond the box you are in. I'm strongly convinced, that anyone at any age can learn math. It just takes will and determination.
The examples the guy gave in the video, had nothing to do with proper math. He taught the five year old, that the units don't change (pencil, apples). So when he came up with the billions, or the fractions, the 5 year old thought of the billion and the third as units that don't change. The kid still doesn't know what billions are, or how to add fractions. Had he asked what is 1/3 + 1/4, the kid would not have a clue. This type of teaching is the wrong way to go, and can lead to complete understanding failures when moving on in math. Those are the ones, that then need to go back to learning the basics, like the one he mentioned. -
thank you!!!!
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Cool
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this dude is half right
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