How a Math PhD Is Fixing Education

So like, I mean, because these things are occurring as language, I don't think there's a lot of struggle behind it because...

You're talking about the concrete thing that's happening underneath the numbers, right? So like, give me five things, give me four more things.

Sure.

That's the exhibition of addition.

You see what I'm saying?

Yes, sir.

And so people don't struggle so much with it in our system.

And I think that we've heard story after story of a student that's come through.

Just last week, I was in Orlando, and someone told me that my daughter was struggling with mathematics.

They went through your system.

they weren't just struggling with mathematics, but they were struggling with school altogether.

And after they came through your system, not only did they do better at mathematics, they did better at all subjects.

And they were no longer struggling with school.

School was easy for them.

Right on.

Is it a lot of, I feel like that's a lot of gunk you removed.

Like the school system is obviously not perfect, but it's still a system that we kind of need to create, you know, our future leaders of America are full in the blank.

Is your program far more advanced? Are you kind of like, you know, figuring out the good crops versus the bad crops? Like, how are you up advancing education when it comes to like the way it's done the old fashioned way versus how you're doing it?

Well, I mean, I think that the idea is that mathematics has been taught the same way for thousands and thousands of years.

And it could be that no one's really sat down to think about how to teach in a different way.

And it wasn't even really me that started this.

It was these professors out of the School of Education over at the University of Denver.

Mm-hmm.

they have all these activities that were designed to teach math conceptually.

And that's kind of the same idea as teaching mathematics as a language.