The Worst Segment of the K-12 Mediocrity

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I’d say the worst segment of the K-12 mediocrity is 6th-8th grade math.

Typically, kids learn counting/arithmetic in elementary school (K-5) and then spend the next 3 full years spinning their wheels without really learning any new math, only moving on to algebra in 9th grade.

If you take those 3 years and put them to good use, you can actually enable gifted kids to cover all of high school math during those years and pass the AP Calculus BC exam by the end of 8th grade.

Seriously, this is not hyperbole. This is exactly what happens in the Math Academy program in the Pasadena school district: mathacademy.us/press

Since then, we’ve built individualized, adaptive learning software to support these students – which ended up further skyrocketing their learning outcomes – and we’ve released the software to the world at large.

It’s a fully automated learning system. Anyone, anywhere, can use it to accelerate their math learning, at any time. It emulates the decisions of a personal trainer who develops your mathematical talent in the most efficient way possible, using the most effective training techniques based on decades of research into the cognitive science of learning.

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