🦉Feenix Pan, PhD |Mathematically Speaking🚢462 @MathDocMom

Mudhut to NASA’s J_Webb Telescope|| Scientist + mathEducator 17yrs👉 Uncommon insights on building kids’ mathematical thinking: Problem-Solving & Mindset |Mom2x fromTearsToSmiles.com Get my book at: Joined July 2010

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🧠 “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.” – Confucius

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🧠 Our education system is failing and it's not making people prepared for life. Why? It's making people good at school, but not in the real world.

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🧠 Writing is difficult. Reason is the story on paper can never be as good as the one inside the head.

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🧠 "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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🧠 When I studied mathematics, I decided to specialize in subtraction because I wanted to make a difference.

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🧠 Education isn't a silo: it starts in childhood, but never runs out.

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🧠 Gentle parenting means guiding out of violence rather than going against impulse.

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🧠 Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, "the greatest mathematician since antiquity", was born in the spring of 1777. His mother was illiterate and only remembered that he was born 8 days before the Feast of Ascension. From that, Gauss used his math skills to calculate his birthday!

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🧠 Traditional education often gives an impression that knowledge is fixed - we know what’s true and what’s not. However the reality is that knowledge is always fluid. And this is where there’s much room for improvement in traditional schooling.

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🧠 "Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death." - Mark Twain

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🧠 - YouTube - Zoom - Skillshare - Outschool - Online school curriculums - Numerous education startups - iPads - Inexpensive laptops - Chromebooks were not available a generation ago. Primary education has many more resources now for fundamental transformation.

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🧠 What if every day was a school day for kids 7 to 70? In a positive way?

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🧠 Since the start of the pandemic, public school enrollment in the US has dropped by 1.4 million students, or 3%. It’s the largest single-year decline since World War II.

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🧠 No matter what a young person chooses to study: - Engineering - Science - Law - Medicine - Liberal arts Writing is the one skill that complements every career in the world.

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3 years ago

Merry Christmas! h/t @IntEngineering

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🧠 MathWorks, the company behind MATLAB and Simulink, did the math right. In 2019: $1B+ revenue, growing ~10% 100,000+ customers 4M+ MATLAB users 5,000 employees Profitable (same as last 36 years) $0 Venture capital raised

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🧠 When education limits imagination it's called indoctrination.

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🧠 Kids and parents: Breaking stuff together is a great learning experience!

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🧠 Investing in a college education is like investing in? a.) US Treasury Bonds b.) Tech Stocks c.) Cryptocurrency My answer: used to be a.) very safe, now it’s b.) more risky, in the future it’ll be c.) very risky

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🧠 Most kids can learn math. The question that I ask myself is "should they?" If math is not connected to anything, it can be a dry and boring topic. Magic happens when math is connected to something meaningful. Why not reverse the order? Find meaning 1st then learn the math.