How a Math PhD Is Fixing Education
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We've got a guarantee that students will learn at least one year of math using our system 30 minutes per week. So it's 10 minutes per day, three days per week. After 10 weeks, what we measure is about a year and a half of gain. Aditya Nagrath is a visionary, innovative and influential mathematician and education reformer who is the founder of Elephant Learning, a platform transforming math education through conceptual learning. Most students coming into kindergarten have a challenge counting to 10, and kindergarten kind of starts at two-digit numbers. And so that language gap exacerbates over time. If you came into kindergarten able to understand the teacher, then the education system really actually works very well for you.
But if you didn't, you kind of struggle all the way along.
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Welcome back to another episode of the Living the Legacy podcast, the Red Life edition. We're moments away from filming another episode of Legacy Makers. Today, our featured guest is Aditya Nagra.
How does Aditya Nagrath define the language gap in education?
Did I butcher that or how did I do that?
You did pretty good.
Oh, right on, cool. I appreciate that affirmation after several hundred episodes, my friend, of podcasting. Welcome to the show.
Thank you for having me.
Is this the most reddest set that you've been in?
I think so, yeah.
Cool. I'm pretty sure reddest is not even a word. My friend, we're moments away of filming your Legacy Makers episode. What will we learn? Give us the preview.
There's a lot, I think. But I'm hoping that people learn how important mathematics is.
What is the significance of teaching mathematics as a language?
Oh, dude.
And I'm hoping that people learn to believe in themselves.
Yeah, it's beautiful how belief and mathematics, there's math in everything. There's math in music, there's math in the code, to the code of the source that everything connects us all. When did you find out the magic behind the numbers? When did you find your calling that there's numbers everywhere?
Yeah.
That God is a big equation. Yeah.
It's hard actually to realize how important mathematics is until you sit down and think about it because most professions, most activities that people engage in, they're kind of mathematical in nature. Always. But most of the time we don't approach it that way. So a lot of professions are based on experience. But I think that when you start to look deeper, what it really is, is a type of applied mathematics. And so it happens to be just about everywhere. But at the same time, no one can pinpoint where do I use it in everyday life.
How does Elephant Learning measure student progress?
I got to ask for a friend. In school systems, there's basic math, multiplications, geometry, algebra, and then you start getting into calculus. You start getting into the really nitty-gritty stuff about math. It's almost like math equals life. As a person that enjoys math, where do you think is enough for the human person to survive day to day? Is it just...
good enough math what is good enough math to get along to get by i would say i think that people have to be versed in algebra i think that algebra is a good primer great is the equivalent of the third grade uh reading level okay for mathematics right and the reason why is because when you start to get into other sciences such as biology physics um any of your stem majors really yes sir Uh, the language is actually happening inside of algebra. And so then these other, uh, techniques are these other tools such as calculus and et cetera. Those are also kind of happening on top of algebra, but like, uh, the challenge is, is that it's harder to determine where, uh, it's being applied as much as, uh, algebra since algebra is just about everywhere.
Right on. Where do you come into play into the pool of numbers? Where does your journey start?
Well, so I've got a PhD in math and computer science. Our system starts with counting and then goes through algebra.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:13
2
How does Aditya Nagrath define the language gap in education?
1:13–1:44
3
What is the significance of teaching mathematics as a language?
1:44–3:00
4
How does Elephant Learning measure student progress?
3:00–4:34
5
What role does algebra play in STEM education?
4:34–5:22
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How does the Elephant Learning system personalize math education?
5:22–6:40
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What challenges do students face in traditional math education?
6:40–8:27
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How can parents and educators learn more about Elephant Learning?
8:27–19:44
Speakers
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