Most students could learn several times faster than most schools assume.
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Most students could learn several times faster than most schools assume.
I know that may sound shocking but it’s what we did in our original school program.
Taking our middle schoolers for ballpark estimate: Typical honors kids learned in 3 years of 40-50 training minutes per schoolday, what would have otherwise taken 7 years with about 1.5h of traditional class/hw per schoolday.
The key assumption in my claim is that each student gets individualized instruction that adapts every single minute of training to their personal knowledge profile while leveraging all the known learning science principles (mastery learning, retrieval practice, spaced repetition, interleaving, etc.) to maximize their learning efficiency – which is of course an impossible task for a single teacher teaching manually (which is why we’ve focused on building tech that does it).
We also have a writeup that answers the following questions:
1. What techniques exist to maximize student learning and talent development, particularly in the context of math?
2. Why are these techniques so impactful, and if they are indeed so impactful, then why are they so often absent from traditional classrooms?
3. How does Math Academy leverage these techniques?
And here is a zoo of links to more info including news articles, our origin story, how our learning outcomes in our original school program skyrocketed once we got the tech in place, how that showed up in AP Calc BC scores, etc.: https://justinmath.com/
In the past year or so since we’ve really entered the scene, people have started posted tons of success stories with MAP score trajectories before/after using MA. I need to find some time to compile all that into one place but Grok and other LLMs could probably track down plenty if you’re curious.
We are currently scrambling to meet demand but looking towards proper academic RCTs in the future.
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