The Neuroscience of Deeper Learning

How do we teach?

How do we learn?

What if mathematics could be taught the way the brain learns?

Group 1

3 yards

Specific and varied practice of motor skill 1978 Booth & Kerr

The bean bag experiment

Group 2

2 yards & 4 yards

TEST

3 yards

Significantly outperformed group 1

Creative Reasoning

Learning mathematics without a suggested solution method: Durable effects on performance and brain activity 2015 Wirebring et al.

Algorithmic

Creative Reasoning

Learning mathematics without a suggested solution method: Durable effects on performance and brain activity 2015 Wirebring et al.

Algorithmic

Schema

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Deep Conceptual Understanding

Deep Conceptual Understanding

Deep Conceptual Understanding

"Why can't we just teach math the way I learned it?"

The volume of work often necessitates computers who can perform the routine machine operations with great speed, but who need not have much logical insight into what the results should be...

Memo: "Computing Group Organizations and Practices at NACA" April 24th 1942

The old way of teaching math was to make you do it like a machine...

The new way is to understand it so you can build the machines!

To ensure that all students are mathematically equipped to solve the world's most challenging problems.

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